With the F1 circus coming to Malaysia for its annual visit (the Formula 1 Malaysian GP happens this weekend), there are sure to be plenty of motorsports themed events in KL this week. Although Nissan isn’t in F1, it’s joining in the fun with a Nissan GT-R Heritage Exhibition at Edaran Tan Chong Motor’s Jalan Ipoh headquarters.
The display, which will be open to all till October 2, celebrates Nissan’s performance icon, the GT-R. Present are the R33 Nissan Skyline GT-R R33, R34 Skyline GT-R and of course, the R35 GT-R. The most interesting of the lot is the R34, which is one of 250 limited edition units of the “M Spec Nur” variant.
Nur is of course for Nurburgring, and the M Spec Nur was the farewell edition of the R34 GT-R, along with the V spec II Nur. It has an improved RB26DETT based on the N1 race engine, with larger turbos and increased boost pressure. Nur cars also shipped with a 300 km/h speedo.
In conjunction with the GT-R display, ETCM also carried out a prize giving ceremony for the central region winner of its Passion to Win campaign. Kavitha A/P Rajamanikam bought a Nissan Almera and will be going on an all-expense paid trip to Thailand to watch the 2016 Super GT Round 7 race at Buriram. Nismo is gunning for a third consecutive Super GT series title.
Others on the Thai trip are Jefery Fernandez A/L Freddy, who bought an Almera; Rossuriana Binti Busu, who bought an X-Trail; new Serena S-Hybrid owner Wong Yun Kang; and Chua Yew Kwang, who bought the X-Trail 2.5L. Ong E-Laine won a Facebook caption contest and will be heading to the Land of Smiles as well.
“The great response we received in our August campaign has motivated us to extend and further uplift the Nissan motorsports spirit with the GT-R Heritage Exhibition. Keeping our customers happy is a priority for us, and with the Super GT Thailand trip, we hope to delight our lucky owners with a thrilling experience,” said Datuk Dr Ang Bon Beng, executive director of ETCM.
No R32 there, though. That much-loved Skyline is hard to come by these days, and we would have fell off our seats if they had the original Hakosuka or the super rare C110-gen GT-R from the early 70s. Want to see those and other landmark cars from Nissan/Datsuns/Prince? Check out our gallery post from Nissan’s amazing Zama Heritage Collection.
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I find it a little ironic for Tan Chong to claim association with GTR when they have never offered the market and the fans such models locally.
Infact, they have hardly offered the local market anything nice in the past. All the Fairlady 300ZX, 200SX were never brought in. And their models are very slow to refresh even already available in thailand for donkey years.
The only thing they are doing right, is the aftersales, which in my opinion is quite ok, both quality and price.
They had 350/370 Z. But too expensive compared to AP
Tan Chong did bring in a version of Skyline to Malaysia. it was the Datsun 180K, one of the earliest sedan to have rear wiper and fuel filler cap similar to Jaguar XJ6 of yesteryears. the instrument meter on the other hand is like a cockpit of aeroplane with additional instrument reading instead of 3 or 4 like today’s cars.
sorry i disagree with you.
their aftersales service is good, but it’s way pricier than their other japanese counterparts.
few marques, mazda included, are recouping their losses via their aftersales.
a nissan almera, the cheapest option from nissan, can have its major service cost as much as RM 1.2k.
the equivalent service items/major maintenance for a honda city could be 700 at most.
i help maintain all family cars, as well as being very involved with friend’s cars.
mazda has decided to go this route too.. after their distributor network was bought by Berjaya group, spare parts price skyrocketed.
at least nissan cars are cheaper to buy than other counterparts, as opposed to mazda that is always the priciest of the jap marques.
in short, Tan Chong = good aftersales attitude, heavy on the pricing.
McLaren F1 > all
R34 has always been my childhood dream car.. drool…
No R32 GTR? I think even GTR Club MY shud have one. Probably not in ori shape, of course.
There are plenty of R32 GTS GTT and GTR around.According NSF R32,they claimed that there are less than 50 units on the road with referred to JPJ registry.
There are still plenty of R32 GTS,GTT and GTR around.According to NfsR32 group,they claimed that there are less than 50 unit of R32 coupe/sedan in JPJ registry.
Truth be told that those are owned by Tan Chong’s family
They prefer infinity cuz interior much higher keras than GTR
Isn’t the showroom located on Jalan Raja Laut?
Oni now baru nak tayang the GTR…..
Im from NSF-R32. We have a few Virgin R32 Gtr and modded ones. We are happy to make an appearance to TCM with invitation. A member even has a KPGC10 in progress of refurbishing. It would be great if TCM was more involve in car scene involving the legendary Nissan Motorsports
ETCM dun wan u guys to persoal them why no bring in GTR all these years.