2018 Nissan GT-R – Is this the R36 Hybrid we’ve been waiting for?

There’s been many talks of the next Nissan GT-R. The current R35 GT-R has been around since 2008 (2009 in the United States), and while Nissan continues to make incremental improvements to the platform each year, the car is getting stale and old. The R35 GT-R used to be the king of the road, and while it still is in many respects, the new competition coming out is getting faster and more capable.

In order for Nissan to compete, it needs to release it’s next generation of the GT-R… the R36. There has been lots of talk and lots of rumor over the power train for the R36 GT-R, but the most important is that it will feature a hybrid power train. Thoughts are the combined output of the ICE (internal combustion engine) and electric motors will be around 700 horsepower, powered through a highly advanced all wheel drive system as in the R35.

We’re expecting the R36 GT-R Premium will be around the $110-120K range, while the Black Edition will be roughly $10K more and the Nismo to be roughly 40-50K more.

The fastest of the R35s is the 2013 and 2014, which do 0-60 in 2.7 seconds. We expect the R36 GT-R to beat this time and once again regain its self as ring leader.

The thing we are most interested in seeing is how the R36 GT-R is going to take to modifications. The R35 is begging to be modified and has so far produced up to 2500 horsepower at the wheels from it’s V6. With simple mods such as a GT-R Exhaust, GT-R Midpipe, tune and supporting mods, you can make 600+whp from just these bolt ons! We hope the new hybrid power train will lend itself to be a highly capable machine, but only time will tell.

From the photo above, you can see the planned 2018 GT-R will share many of the same design traits as the R35, but the R36 GT-R looks to be much sleeker.

Personally, I love it.