For some reason, the R32 Nissan Skyline GT-R has always been within the JDM car category. I understand. Is it like that perhaps the largest car ever sold in the United States, but it deserves to be reconsidered even further, because it is in the same category as the BMW M3, the Subaru WRX, the Mitsubishi Evo, as the legend of group A.
Every year, the most chosen members of Jalopnik (well, just me this year) have brought you the best of Group C and GT1 races of the eighties and nineties. We even did a group B concentration theme once. But for some reason we have never dealt with the formula of the most arguably successful races. It’s the awkward title Group A-smas, worthy of celebration.
I never even really thought of the R32 GT-R as a Group A success story. It never ran in the same series as other homologation specials more associated with the formula. The legendary Group A rally cars were legends for their rivalries. He Lancia Delta Integrale went against the Toyota Celica GT-Four, the Subaru Impreza WRX against the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. The R32 GT-R doesn’t mind.
The story is the same for the legendary Group A cars. The BMW M3 was only made as a means to get back to the Mercedes 190E Cosworth, and who knows if we would even have V8 Audis if the company didn’t want to win a championship of its own. And in all the featured DTM videos on YouTube and in all the BMW and Benz press releases, there is no R32.
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Nissan ran the R32 GT-R mainly in national territory, competing in the Japanese Touring Car Championship under Group A. regulations. Once the R32 was loaded, it took over. In 1990 he won the championship. In 1991, won the championship. In 1992 and 1993, well, yes, the same story. It competed against cars we know from Europe, the M3 and the Sierra RS500, but even though any American can come out buy an M3 and live part of its history. The 25 Y has denied us the R32ear rule. He has stayed away, at Gran Turismo, on DVD of video options, as part of a JDM story and not a group A.
(I will also say that the R32 GT-R had a history of Group N too. He won under the rules approved below sometimes, included in the Nürburgring.)
Nowhere on the R32group A influence clearer than at, perhaps, the turning point in GT-R history. It is the car that came out of Japan and went down to Australia and wrapped the rest of the field of group A down there, to the point of being booed in 1992:
This is! That’s the whole story! We should include the R32 GT-R as part of the history of special approval offers, as we include it in our reflections on the wonders of JDM and the majesties of Bubble Era. Not just a drifting car, a towing car or a tuner is expected. He transformed a relatively simple Skyline into a performance machine; jois a tourism, and one of the greatest he has ever done.