Go through the listings of the more popular car selling sites and you have to wonder why there seems to be a disproportionate share of people looking for a quick sale of a Nissan Skyline R35. There are many factors that are contributing to why owners are looking for a quick sale for a Nissan Skyline R35, one of which is the economic uncertainty of the current period. Maybe some owners are finding it difficult to keep up with their monthly payments or finding the high maintenance costs for the R35 onerous. But there is also the issue of Nissan not warranting failing transmissions, which can cost up to $25,000 to replace. This last issue is a particular damper on owner enthusiasm, because the GT-R is being advertised as an alternative supercar, yet it cannot seem to take the abuse. The amazing performance of the R35 Skyline cannot be debunked. It really is an amazing car for the money. The fact that it can do duty as a docile, daily-driven commuter that can then do a transformer-like switch into a rampaging track beast has many carmakers wondering how Nissan can do it at such an affordable price.
As a high performance car, it’s only reasonable to expect an owner to drive an R35 hard. Most specially when Nissan itself crows over the fact that it had beaten Porsche’s time at the world-famous Nurburgring track. The impression current and prospective owners then get is that a Nissan R35 can run and even beat a Porsche, which costs almost twice more depending on the model. But then, the reality of a weak transmission and the fact that Nissan doesn’t seem to back up their supercar in terms of a reasonable warranty has left many owners disappointed. Because of this disappointment, many owners are deciding on a quick sale for their Nissan Skyline R35, just to get ahead of a potential crash in the value of this car. Already, prices for these cars have drastically gone down and owners looking at their cars’ depreciation cannot be not alarmed at what they’re seeing. When you have a car that depreciates 10,000 dollars a year in value, the prudent decision in fiscal terms seems to be to do a quick sale for a Nissan Skyline R35.
At this point, it is up to Nissan to correct the perceptions that their supercar is flawed in terms of reliability and warranty policies. It would be a shame to think that after the R32, R33 and R34 Skylines built up such a legend among car enthusiasts, the R35 would be a letdown so much so that there are a lot of early model R35 GT-Rs for sale at the moment.
