The era of this R35 iteration of Godzilla has since finally come to an end after 18 long years.
After nearly two decades of roaring through the streets, the R35 iteration of Godzilla is soon to fall into an eternal slumber. Nissan has officially announced that it has stopped taking orders for the GT-R in Japan — the last market where this four-seat Japanese supercar was still available.
A statement on Nissan’s Japanese website reads:
“We have received many orders for the GT-R and have now finished accepting orders for the planned production quantity. We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all our customers for their support since its release in 2007.”
The writing has been on the wall for the GT-R for some time now, as it has been gradually retired from key markets over the years. Godzilla was withdrawn Australia and New Zealand in 2021, Europe and the United Kingdom in 2022, and finally in North America last year.
First bursting onto the scene in 2007, the R35 GT-R debuted as a technological tour de force, redefining what a high-performance car could be. Yet, in the intervening 18 years, it has seemingly become something refreshingly old-school — a raw and mechanical beast existing in a whole new world that has since been dominated by electrified hypercars that pretty much could drive themselves.
That is not to say the antiquated R35 GT-R is any less capable though, as Godzilla can still well chomp at the heels of modern supercars. In fact, if Nürburgring lap times are anything to go by, the 2015 GT-R NISMO still remains among the top 40 fastest production cars to ever lap the Green Hell.
The R35 initially launched with a 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6 producing 471 horsepower, but through years of relentless refinement, the final GT-R NISMO upped that figure to 600 hp. Along the way, Nissan continually evolved its supercar, introducing a host of iterative updates and at least three major facelifts in 2010, 2016, and 2023.
As for what comes next meanwhile, Nissan has previously teased an all-electric GT-R successor, with the sharp-edged Hyper Force concept hinting at what the future could hold. The company has suggested it could enter production before 2030, though whether Nissan itself remains in a position to bring it to life is, unfortunately, far from certain…
