R36 GT-R Will Be 'World’s Fastest Brick', Nissan Reckons

Nissan's design boss Alfonso Albaisa has dropped a few hints about the next-generation GT-R
R36 GT-R Will Be 'World’s Fastest Brick', Nissan Reckons

It’s been a little while since we had some news about the next-generation GT-R, hasn’t it? A few years ago there was talk of how the ‘R36’ might look like the outrageous Nissan Vision Gran Turismo concept (above) and the sort of power the car’s apparently hybrid powertrain could produce, but the rumours seemed to dry up a little.

Now though, we have a few juicy hints about the R35 successor via Nissan’s design chief Alfonso Albaisa. Speaking to Autocar, he said that hybridisation was likely, although seemed to suggest that it was very early days for the project.

“Whether we go to a lot of electrification or none at all, we can achieve a lot power-wise,” Albaisa said, adding, “But we are definitely making a new ‘platform’ and our goal is clear: GT-R has to be the quickest car of its kind. It has to ‘own’ the track. And it has to play the advanced technology game; but that doesn’t mean it has to be electric.”

R36 GT-R Will Be 'World’s Fastest Brick', Nissan Reckons

It won’t derive its styling from the limited-run GT-R50 (above), but Albaisa did say that it would need to be “imposing and excessive” not through the use of wings, but through its “visual mass” and “audacity”.

He concluded: “It simply says: ‘I’m a GT-R, I’m a brick, catch me.’ It’s the world’s fastest brick.”

Comments

Anonymous

Maybe just a GT-R with those headlights and some touches here and there.

07/16/2018 - 16:50 |
4 | 0
Renault GTR

Oh boy, this is gonna be fun.

07/16/2018 - 16:50 |
4 | 0
Aaron 15

Interesting, the 1969 2000 GT-R was nicknamed the box. And bricks look somewhat like boxes! So maybe this’ll a hark back to the original?

07/16/2018 - 16:50 |
20 | 0

Most GTRs were designed without anything as frivolous as curves

07/16/2018 - 21:46 |
2 | 0
Jake 136

That’s a pretty nice looking Maxima

07/16/2018 - 16:51 |
60 | 2
maurotehsilva

If “brick” refers to being a boat then yes I agree but I’m sure a certain somebody from France has already taken that spot.

07/16/2018 - 16:52 |
220 | 6

If you consider they are part french, then this is just another brick in the wall for them

07/16/2018 - 17:16 |
70 | 0

“You know nothing about bricks”

07/16/2018 - 20:32 |
192 | 0

Sir those are potato’s

07/17/2018 - 05:53 |
0 | 0

You mean from Germany? VW

07/18/2018 - 16:08 |
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☆★THEBOOSTEDBRIT★☆

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07/16/2018 - 16:54 |
2 | 2

HE LITERALLY SAID IT HAS TO BE INNOVATIVE

07/16/2018 - 17:14 |
10 | 0
Luther Reid

Oh yes please

07/16/2018 - 16:56 |
88 | 0
TurboToddler (Straight-five)

I kinda hope Nissan goes down the weight reduction route instead of making another heavy, high tech car. I know the R32-R35 GT-Rs haven’t been that way, but at some point technology will succumb to the laws of physics.

07/16/2018 - 17:17 |
44 | 2

true that
cough understeer cough

07/17/2018 - 00:07 |
4 | 2

I’d rather the GT-R maintain that personality it’s built up over the decades

07/17/2018 - 02:25 |
10 | 0
Cweagle7712

it looks hideous.

07/16/2018 - 18:26 |
8 | 2
Nagisa

Because I just designed a great car and I’m going to start talking about how it’s a fast brick

07/16/2018 - 20:19 |
0 | 0

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