The last Nissan GT-R R35 has rolled off the assembly line.
By ForGeeks
After 18 years of production, the legendary sports car Nissan GT-R R35 has officially been consigned to history. Since 2007, some 48,000 examples have been assembled at the Totigi plant, and production of the model is now complete. The last car – Premium T-Spec in Midnight Purple – has already found an owner in Japan.
“This is not goodbye forever”
Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa has confirmed that the iconic name GT-R will still return:
“This is not goodbye to the GT-R forever. Our goal is to bring the GT-R name back to the roads one day,” he said.
But don’t expect an exact timeline: “The plan hasn’t been finalized yet. All I can ask of the fans is patience. The GT-R will evolve and one day it will reappear.”
Similar statements have been made previously by other top executives at the company. At the New York Auto Show in April 2025, for example, Nissan USA spokesman Ponz Pandikuthira confidently said: “The GT-R will be back, no doubt about it.”
What the R36 could be
Nissan isn’t revealing details yet, but hints have been dropped. At the Japan Mobility Show 2023 in Tokyo, the company unveiled the Hyper Force concept, an electric car with 1,341 hp, solid-state batteries and a top speed of 200 mph (322 km/h).
Whether the new GT-R will be all-electric or retain the internal combustion engine for at least one generation is an open question.
Nissan’s complications
The supercar’s rebirth is complicated by Nissan’s dire financial situation. The company is implementing a plan Re:Nissan:
- Closing 7 plants
- reduction of 20,000 jobs
- reduction in the number of platforms from 13 to 7,
- reduction of parts nomenclature by 70%.
With that background, an expensive niche sports car may not be a priority. But Nissan executives are emphatic: GT-R R36 is still part of a long-term strategy.
