GT-R: How Nissan Beat Everyone

GT-R: How Nissan Beat Everyone - TST Podcast

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5 ай бұрын

Why are Nissan GT-Rs so coveted? Why was it illegal to import them? Why did Japan build them in the first place? All that and more is covered in the excellent book, "Cult of GT-R, A Story of Crime, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Car". It is a detailed history of the Nissan GT-R, Japanese manufacturing, Japanese car culture, the world of import laws, and why the GT-R means so much to so many of us. The author, Ryan ZumMallen, joins us.
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Recorded February 7, 2024
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@keithrobertson2401 5 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this conversation. This guy is dope. Definitely reading his book now. Thanks.

@rafaelperez4730 5 ай бұрын

cant believe Hugo from Succession knows so much about gtrs

@edwardcunningham2701 5 ай бұрын

Hahahaha

@RyanZumMallen 5 ай бұрын

oh shit, I’ve never been told that one before lol

@mapko15 5 ай бұрын

@RyanZumMallen do you think there will be a price correction in the next 5-6 years once the market is flooded with gtrs now that they are becoming legal or have we all missed the boat?

@RyanZumMallen 5 ай бұрын

@@mapko15 it’s certainly possible, but I would say unlikely. In past trends once a car gets hot, it stays hot for at least a decade. Because of the quantity these are much more like the Porsche market than the Mustang/Camaro market

@redlion145 5 ай бұрын

I enjoyed this show more than I thought I would, prejudging it from the title. I think the discussion was more broad than just the car. Ryan seems really knowledgeable and down to earth.

@CarsandCasey 5 ай бұрын

Just bought his book this morning after you mentioned it in the past podcast. Thanks for not spoiling the whole book! Looking forward to the read.

@WordToMomsYo 5 ай бұрын

The best episode of TST in quite a long time...

@simonpoudrette Ай бұрын

15 years ago we had a lot of R32 GTR in Montreal. Some of them were rough. Very few left.

@KrazC 4 ай бұрын

This was such a great talk. Thank you guys for continuing to share these stories and now I want a Skyline....

@feenyx6394 5 ай бұрын

Finally up to date with podcast drops, and what an episode to arrive at. I'm very much a Best Motoring/Gran Turismo kid as well, and I've owned an R33 in the past and would some day like to again! Mine was GTS-25t, and it cost me £5000 back in 2007. I had to import it from the UK to Norway, but it was still under half the price of an already registered one at the time. Sadly it was stolen 5 years later, and probably dismantled for parts as the police never found it. Luckily for me, R33s still seems to be the ugly duckling of the family so they are still (relatively) more attainable. Will probably have to settle for another GTS though, or indeed going 4-door like Zack. With the money saved from not buying a GT-R, there's a huge budget for mods too. Definitely grabbing this book, it'll seems like a great read and as a bonus will look nice on my shelf next to my other three Skyline books :)

@mlasko1204 5 ай бұрын

@TheSmokingTirePodcast Great book and an easy read, highly recommended. Awesome interview as always Matt and Zack, the best interview format automotive podcast IMO. Also the name of the book Ryan referred to is, The Automotive Gray Market: An Inside History by John B. Hege.

@mikesonic29 5 ай бұрын

3000GT from Mitsubishi was a car I lusted for in highschool

@arthurs7882 5 ай бұрын

DON'T HATE ON THE CEDRIC

@shingoose6197 5 ай бұрын

A number of people in Canada purchased R32, R33 and R34 GTRs for cheap and used them as winter beaters for years... The 10 year head start we had over the US really puts the current prices for these cars into perspective. And it's the same for a lot of the popular JDM cars. Many of the ones that come to auction were left outside and abandoned, because they just became old, used cars. It didn't matter how special they were...

@TakuroSpirit77 5 ай бұрын

I first saw a "GT-R" in a scale model/RC car magazine in the very early 90's. Fell in love with the body style and box flares.

@chadbarbaro 5 ай бұрын

tamiya

@aguruattapiano 5 ай бұрын

Great episode

@BarbWaltersMusic 5 ай бұрын

Zack made a good point, same thing with the BMW Delivery program

@Grundle_ItcH085 5 ай бұрын

Matt literally can’t help himself, he has to interrupt the guest to tell his obscure story of why something isn’t his fault. 🤣🤣🤣

@Wirenfeldt1990 5 ай бұрын

Last time he made an edgy comment he got an earful and had to apologize a show later.. So getting ahead of it makes sense..

@NoClassic 5 ай бұрын

It would be great to see Honda Type-R model history book at some point.

@arthurs7882 5 ай бұрын

I don't think a left hand drive GTR would have been some high volume savior for Nissan but it's possible that a rear wheel drive naturally aspirated version which in some senses is what the G35 was. Would have emerged earlier and made infiniti are more competitive brand earlier. Infinity was printing money with the G35 at the FX35 and they could have potentially started that even earlier as the j30 was a sales failure

@fraserwright9482 5 ай бұрын

In NZ where these were just cars it's been scary watching Americans going all in on a Nissan Skyline. My mum had an R30 in the 80s that replaced an AlfaGTV, but we went for a Schnitzer M3 as the R33 was to heavy like the 300zx. The obsession with Japanese culture and GTR cosplay is weird having lived through the 90s as a car person.

@Nightmaretyrant 5 ай бұрын

@@fraserwright9482 Only weird to kiwis as you guys think the stramgest rarest cars are normal, even in Australia Skylines despite being more common were still considered abit special. NZ is a unique place for cars " Ye brew me Ded hed a Moris Marina with a quad rotor, awd and active aero back in the 90s aye " LIKE ITS NORMAL lol

@cliftonjackson441 5 ай бұрын

i was typing the answer as s question to check on the book title as they found it on the show

@WTFNoNamesLeft2 5 ай бұрын

13:35 "That Mines Car" For those wanting the original 90s' experience, here is the video. It started with the dude looking down at the camera and ended with wanting a Skyline GTR: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qpOiiKl3ptvFYHU.html Back in the day we didn't get the whole video like this, it was just the Mines GTR clip.

@conspicuoustraverser7375 5 ай бұрын

Im here, lets get Zumi

@Budiwoyz1 5 ай бұрын

BMW Z4 M40i with Handschalter Package - 'Handschalter' literal translation is 'hand shifter'. Handschalter is common speech for cars with manual transmission.

@Esa826 5 ай бұрын

"If you see me on Nissan, you know that I'm dead" - Robbie Coltrane.

@almeida8x 5 ай бұрын

I’d personally want the Mazda. I love that they’ve engineered a new straight six into the world.

@hardcoreep 4 ай бұрын

Have to agree on the forbidden fruit. The skyline has been available in my country since the R32. They had precious little respect here and their values have simply been driven up by North American demand. JDM rally homologation are the classics of choice. I will also add that there are no performance American cars I'm lusting after, as many as I've seen and experienced, so I guess I'm the exception.