Saw a red Nissan GT-R!!!! on the way home on Bloor heading west towards Kipling.

No, it's not a R-34 (i'm almost 100% sure). I even dug up pictures to compare. It looks like the new GT-R!!

I wasn't able to get a good look at the inside as the window was tinted and I simply could not catch up in my gf's civic...nor did i want to speed.

all i have to say is..WOW. that is one sexy car!

It was me,
Surprise!!!

WTF!! for reall?!? thats the suprise you had cooking up on your new wheels page?!

NO WAY...they already arrived Canada???

I want one... *drool*

I don't think so. They are not supposed to be released until early 2009.

Who ever owns it must be someone important in Nissan is my guess...

My god, the car looks the size of a Charger in person.

The new GTR is a god among vehicles.

If its red it could have been the GT-R thats reserved for the media. If you read the papers and watch the vids, most times the GT-R in those vids & photos is red. Last Saturday's Toronto Star Wheel section has an article with the red GT-R, doing some test comparison with a 911 Turbo on a Runway. My guess it could have been Downsview.

O.k fine, it wasnt me.

There was one around london last week.. red as well.... maybe the same guy?

haha he woulda had me fooled..

I saw a silver one in NY two weekends ago. I'll post pictures when I get home.

I saw a silver one almost two months ago in Yorkville, so they're on the streets in Toronto just probably so rare you rarely see them.

Weren't they released in the states in July?

What kind of plates did it have?

I saw this car today at Dixon and Martin Grove. Or at least the one I saw was most definately a brand new Red GTR w/ Ontario plates. God what a sick car. I saw one at the auto show. It looked even better on the streets. They go for $85k. I was actually amazed to see it myself because I didn't think they were for sale in Canada yet. A couple of minutes later somebody ran into me. A great moment turned shitty real fast.

the new GTR's transmission can only withstand 15 launches with their launch feature before needing a new tranny.

It costs 800 dollars in special tranny fluid

Couple other crazy things

ohh, a brake job is 6500 dollars, and if it breaks down, a special team has to come out to work on it.

I find that hard to believe.

http://forums.nicoclub.com/zerothread/360385-backing-up-tms-on-this-one-about-the-gtr

It's on teh Interweb so it must be true!

Pfffffft.......I'll just stick to my DSMs. I can buy like 4 1Gs for the price of the brake job on the GT-R.

Then I can launch each 1G atleast 15 times, before I break something, for a total of 60 times or so. Take that GT-R

I wouldn't be surprised. It's almost like neutral dropping on an automatic but an automatic with 500hp or whatever it has.

Not to mention it's only 20 dollars to do an oil change. and 30 - 40 tranny flush.

It's hard to believe because this is supposed to be an 'every man's' supercar, so it's supposed to be affordable over the long run, not just for the purchase.

But treatment like this also fits the mould for 'supercar', and gives owners a feeling of exclusivity with 'special treatment'. Nissan doesn't want to fall into the same trap the NSX did, and have people thinking of it as just an 'overpriced Skyline'.

From what I've read and seen on TV, Nissan spent millions of dollors and countless hours on R&D so that the GT-R could match or excede the Porsche 911 in every aspect. I have a hard time believing they would release the car that is only capable of making 15 launches.

Regular launches ya, but with their launch program where it's like a stutter box, is what kills it apparently.

Do you think any brake job on a super car is cheap?

I'm sure it's very expensive to replace the brakes, but I don't think they would send a special team to come out to work on the brakes.

Something they try. It's bad enough now with a REGULAR car what they try to get away with... Telling you the brand new brakes on your car need replacing. That the $100 worth of parts will ONLY run you $500 or so in total, etc...

How many people wrench on their own Ferraris? Think they're allowed to?

no no, not on the brakes. Like if anything happened and the car wasn't running properly, or the engine broke down. you can't just bring it to any mechanic

The techs that work on the GT-R's are specially trained for that car. I don't rember how long the course was.

$6500 seems high; the GT-R is sporting Brembo's with normal pads and rotors all around.

That sounds more like a brake job for a Porsche/Mercedes/whatever carbon ceramic composite.