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The R35 started development in 2000 and was launched in 2007. It has had a number of updates along the way, but you can only push an old platform so far. The R3
by jdietrich 2y ago
The R35 started development in 2000 and was launched in 2007. It has had a number of updates along the way, but you can only push an old platform so far. The R35 has already been discontinued in most markets because it can't comply with new regulations. It's sad to say goodbye to an icon, but the R35 has remained in production for far longer than anyone would reasonably have expected.
It probably doesn't help that the car is so closely associated with Carlos Ghosn.
- ur-whale 2y ago> The R35 has already been discontinued in most markets because it can't comply with new regulations. Another thing to add to the list of things to love about the R35.
- Rebelgecko 2y agoWhy is that something to love? Making it more exclusive to other markets?
- outer_web 2y agoI interpreted it a "regulations bad".
- TheJoeMan 2y agoUnfortunately, in the USA, the regulations essentially just force manufacturers to put the engine into a huge body just so they fall under different (less-strict) emissions regulations. So banning small vehicles like this with okay gas-mileage (which I would consider "ok" to be in the 20's range), but we aren't improving the environment, since consumers are now just pushed to huge vehicles with gas mileage in the high teens.
- Zak 2y agoI wonder if a fuel economy standard that ignores vehicle size would be viable. That would advantage the lightest, most aerodynamic cars and make big vehicles expensive. Some people need big vehicles, but increasing costs for those people might be an acceptable tradeoff for making the average car smaller with the inherent benefits to fuel economy and reduced danger to other road users.
- michaelhoney 2y agoIt would totally be viable. Just politically difficult for timid politicians
- kfajdsl 2y agoSo many regulations could be streamlined and IMO made much more effective if they were just designed around the simplest way to make people pay for their negative externalities. Carbon taxes and congestion pricing are great examples of this. Instead we have Byzantine regulations like these with unintended consequences like conditioning everyone into thinking they need a 5000lb monster truck.
- numpad0 2y agolike simply inflating gas prices?
- nextos 2y agoIt's a really interesting car. Right there with the Honda S2000 one of the most interesting cars in the last 25 years. Sadly, both Nissan and Honda have failed to create a saga.
- rconti 2y ago2 sports car purchases ago, the S2000 was near the top of my list, but came in 2nd place because it was going to be my only car, and I figured a 2 seat hatchback was more practical than a 2 seat convertible. I think I made the right choice though both the S2k and the car I bought increased in value over the following 15 years. I'd still love to own an S2k, but the way values have continued to levitate actually pushed me into a Boxster instead. I still think I'll own one some day. The s2k is one of the most attractive sports cars in history, IMO. I think that was helped by the fact that they never replaced it -- a replacement model always 'ages' the previous one.
- mwelpa 2y agoDid you buy Z3 in the end? :D
- adolph 2y agomaybe the FF or GTC4Luso?
- atomicUpdate 2y agoNo one has ever cross-shopped an S2k and an FF.
- adolph 2y agoOh, I was thinking clown shoe cars in general.
- rconti 2y agoboth those car are 4 seaters.
- j45 2y agoThe R-36 is most welcome.