{"id":127527,"date":"2018-06-29T12:23:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=127527"},"modified":"2018-06-29T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T16:23:33","slug":"nissan-pushes-the-limits-with-italdesign-gt-r50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2018\/06\/nissan-pushes-the-limits-with-italdesign-gt-r50\/","title":{"rendered":"Nissan Pushes the Limits With Italdesign GT-R50"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nissan GT-R50 by Italdesign commemorates the 50th anniversaries of both the GT-R and Italdesign.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nissan is nothing, if not proud of its affordable supercar, the GT-R. It\u2019s stretched the boundaries with a number of variants, in recent years, including the 2018 Nismo edition. Now, it is teaming up with the legendary Italdesign to come up with it calls a GT-R \u201cwithout limits.\u201d<\/p>\n

Somewhat surprisingly, it marks the first time Nissan and the Italian design house have worked together, and they clearly wanted to put pedal to the metal.The newly revealed take on the GT-R pushes the boundaries from a design standpoint, with its distinctive gold and gray color scheme enhancing a variety revisions to the exterior of the latest-generation GT-R.<\/p>\n

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We Keep You In the Know!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“How often do you get to ask, ‘What if we created a GT-R without limits,’ and then actually get to build it?” said\u00a0Alfonso Albaisa, Nissan’s senior vice president for global design.<\/p>\n

The decision to work with Italdesign on this particular project marks what Albaisa calls \u201ca rare window in time. It turns out to be the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of both the GT-R and the Italian design house. So, he added, “To celebrate this convergence, Nissan and Italdesign created this custom GT-R to mark 50 years of engineering leadership.”<\/p>\n

(Ghost dismisses speculation of a Renault takeover of alliance. <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the story.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The new GT-R50 isn't a redesign as much as its an upgrade to the existing GT-R.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The result of the collaboration isn\u2019t a complete makeover. See the GT-R50 racing down a freeway and you\u2019ll likely recognize key design cues, including the distinctive kink to its roofline and the pop-up rear wing, among other features.<\/p>\n

But you\u2019ll also note the dramatic new gold surround framing the GT-R50\u2019s massive grille \u2013 that being being the appropriate color for celebrating a 50th<\/sup> anniversary. There\u2019s more gold in the \u201csamurai blade\u201d air extractors behind the front wheels, and the noble element is again used for the sideview mirror casings and for the rear deck surrounding that pop-up wing.<\/p>\n

Italdesigners have done more than buy up a bucket of gold paint, however. They\u2019ve added to the power bulge of the hood. There are slit-like, modified LED headlamps rising into that hood. And while the roof retains the basic shape of the familiar GT-R\u2019s, it actually has been chopped by about two inches.<\/span><\/p>\n

Italdesign also has tweaked the fenders to give the GT-R50 a more muscular look, framing new 21-inch rubber. The exterior revisions wrap up with modified twin-ring taillights.<\/p>\n

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The GT-R50 gets some upgrades on the inside of the car as well as the outside.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for more about Nissan’s 20% production cut in North America.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Inside of the \u201climitless\u201d GT-R makeover, the concept continues with the gold accents on the instrument panel, door and instrument panel. There\u2019s also plenty of black leather and Alcantara trim. The flat-bottomed wheel, meanwhile, is made of carbon fiber.<\/p>\n

All look but no play just wouldn\u2019t fit a GT-R, even in concept form, so working with Italdesign, Nissan has bumped up the muscle quotient of the supercar, taking the already beefy Nismo version of the 3.8-liter V-6 from 592 horsepower to 720 \u2013 a figure that manages to top the updated version of the Dodge Challenger Hellcat announced this week. (And no, it\u2019s no match for the 797 hp Challenger Redeye, but GT-R is lighter and far more nimble.)<\/p>\n

Credit the addition of GT3 competition-spec turbochargers and intercoolers, along with reinforced pistons and other engine components, as well as a performance exhaust and water and oil coolers. The six-speed dual-clutch transmission has also been beefed up to handle the added stresses.<\/p>\n

(To see more about Nissan\u2019s plans to add eight EVs, boost electrified sales to 1M annually,\u00a0<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Officially, the Nissan\/Italdesign GT-R50 is just a concept vehicle, but it seems like a lot of work for a show car. Don\u2019t be surprised to see at least some of the work that\u2019s gone into the showy birthday cake translate into a future production model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nissan’s newly revealed GT-R50 is the “GT-R without limits,” according to the automaker. Teaming with Italdesign for the first time, the new model comes out in time to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Italdesign and the GT-R. See the story at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5],"tags":[],"make":[90],"post-state":[],"category_old":[150,151,300,189,125,164],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127527"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=127527"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=127527"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=127527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}