Concerning the design, it is to consider that the R34 GT-R is a pumped-up version of a family sedan, not a fashionable piece of automotive-design-art like Italian supercars. On a GT-R, every scoop and bulge has its function intended to form a piece of technical art and to increase its efficiency as a street rocket.

This car is a technology showcase trying to make head-turning technology and performance available for everyday-use. And with all its gadgets, it offers a very involving driving experience, but at the same time fulfills the requirements of a daily commuter. The Skyline GT-R shines as a good compromise between a pure sports car and a sedan, almost as radical and edgy as the former and almost as useful as the latter. And it makes this compromise as convincing as hardly any other car does.

This is why the Skyline is not only, as the American “Road & Track” magazine wrote, “The best Gran Turismo to ever come from the land of the rising sun”. It is “The Real Supercar” - maybe a bit overstyled, maybe senselessly fast in a time of rising fuel-prices and ever increasing traffic jams - but certainly entertaining!