A Paul Newman edition that won't cost you the Earth...
You can’t mention the Nissan Skyline without thinking of the GT-R. From the late 1980s through to the millennium, the Skyline GT-R was one of the most technologically advanced performance cars on the planet, giving supercars of far greater value and power a hard time when it came to a set of bends. And, ultimately, they paved the way for the all-conquering Nissan GT-R – minus the Skyline moniker – that have been tearing up track days for a decade and a half.by a couple of decades.
Immediately after the launch of sixth generation Skyline in 1981, Nissan released a performance version to fill the void left by the GT-R. But while the GT-R had majored on power, the new sports model, dubbed the RS, would focus more on lightness. Nissan’s take on the clubsport philosophy, you could say. Weighing in at just 1,130kg, the RS would be a whopping 300kg lighter than the R32 Skyline GT-R that took the world by storm at the end of the decade.
There’s only one way you can make a boxy 80s coupe look a bit racier – make the thing even more boxy. The RS received chunkier bumpers front and rear, along with deeper side skirts and circular rear lights encased in gigantic rectangular shroud. The lower half of the car was finished in black – a design trend that really should make a return – with the model name printed in front of the rear wheel arch.
And, fun fact, the R30 Skyline and the Rolex Daytona have something in common. They both have Paul Newman editions, and are each considered the most desirable of their respective lines. Only Paul Newman R30s won’t set you back hundreds of thousands of pounds. It all came about because the actor-come-racing driver was a factory Nissan driver at the time and was the face of its promotional material, so the company thought it’d be a good idea to slap his name on its top-spec Skylines.
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