"Do you really, really want a hybrid for the GT-R? Ninety-nine percent of our customers say, 'No, thanks,'" Tamura told Motor1.com at the New York Auto Show.
Adding a gasoline-electric hybrid setup like the Acura NSX, Tamura said, could push the GT-R past $200,000 – and for Nissan, that's looking like a no-no.
Another reason why Nissan isn't apt to completely rewire the current R35 is that it typically redesigns each GT-R's platform every 20 years, according to Tamura. When the R32 revived the Skyline GT-R nameplate in 1989, it retained the same basic underpinnings throughout the R33 and R34 series. The R35 was a clean-sheet design that, for the first time, officially busted the Japanese "gentleman's agreement" restricting engines to 276 horsepower (it made 480, even though many suspected it made much more).
https://www.motor1.com/news/346758/r36-nissan-gtr-hybrid/
Adding a gasoline-electric hybrid setup like the Acura NSX, Tamura said, could push the GT-R past $200,000 – and for Nissan, that's looking like a no-no.
Another reason why Nissan isn't apt to completely rewire the current R35 is that it typically redesigns each GT-R's platform every 20 years, according to Tamura. When the R32 revived the Skyline GT-R nameplate in 1989, it retained the same basic underpinnings throughout the R33 and R34 series. The R35 was a clean-sheet design that, for the first time, officially busted the Japanese "gentleman's agreement" restricting engines to 276 horsepower (it made 480, even though many suspected it made much more).
https://www.motor1.com/news/346758/r36-nissan-gtr-hybrid/
