Frankie’s Garage: NISMO 400R!

nismo400rThis legendary street/track ready car was available to play in the first Playstation Gran Turismo video game.  Only 44 Nissan Skyline R33 GT-R NISMO 400Rs were produced, making this a very rare and special kind of automobile.  Carfection takes a ride in this Godzilla.

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Frankie’s Garage: Tomica’s Premium Line R34 Z-Tuned

skylinetomicaprimoThis new Tomica 1/64 diecast car line is shooting for the adult toy colltector.  The Tomica Premium line kicks-off the series with the iconic NISMO R34 Z-Tuned sports car.

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Frankie’s Garage: GT-R N Attack Package @ 2015 SEMA

nissannattackpackNissan has released various special editions of it’s GT-R in over the years, now comes the 2015 NISMO Nissan GT-R N Attack Package available in U.S. through aftermarket tuning company Stillen.  This ultimate track package GT-R variant attacked the famous German track Nürburgring in a record 7 minutes and 8 second lap time.

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Frankie’s Garage: The NISMO 370Z Roadster Concept

370znismoNissan’s aftermarket team NISMO debuts a concept 370Z Roadster at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show.  You will find the same 3.7 V6 as in any other 370Z, but the engine and suspension is tuned by NISMO, along with special unique aero parts.

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Frankie’s Garage: A ride in the Pulsar NISMO Concept

nissanpulsarnismoconceptThis might look like a rice rocket Honda FIT, but it’s actually a Nissan Pulsar NISMO concept car.  For city-dwellers looking for tiny parking spaces and pinching to save gas money, these mini-compacts offer a lot.  Car enthusiasts who like hot compacts also want performance and this will do the trick.

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Frankie’s Garage: NISMO Festival 2014

NISMO Festival 2014 was a roaring success with 35,000 fans at FuAnother year passes, and another NISMO Festival 2014 at Fuji Speedway takes place.  If you’re fan of Nissan cars and NISMO tuned rides, then this is the festival you need to go.  Here is the highlights from the event:

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Frankie’s Garage: 30 Years of NISMO

nismo30Like many major car manufacturers who have their own in-house racing/tuning programs like AMG, the M Division, SVT, SRT, TRD, just to name a few, Nissan’s NISMO (Nissan Motorsports) celebrates 30 years.  This video by Nissan highlights NISMO – the past 30 years of amazing wins on the track and street legal tuned cars.

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Frankie’s Garage: The Future Nissan GT-R for Gran Turismo

nissangtr2020Designed in Europe and Japan is the Nissan Concept 2020 for the upcoming Gran Turismo video game.  The virtual supercar might be the design for the next Nissan GT-R.

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Frankie’s Garage: The NISMO GT-R on ATTACK!

nismogtrpassingThe setting is the 2014 Blanc Pain Endurance series.  The NISMO team started the opening lap at grid 32, that’s 32 of out 44 cars in the race.  In this one lap, Al Buncombe climbs 17 places for the 13th position by the second lap.  Now that’s just crazy.

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Frankie’s Garage: Jay Drives the NISMO IDX

nissan idxWhen Nissan unveiled its top-secret concept at last year’s Tokyo Motor Show, it blew Nissan fanboys and auto fans away that Nissan would bring back the iconic Datsun 510 back to life.  And now even Nissan fan Jay Leno gets to take a look at the one of the concepts, the NISMO IDx.

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Frankie’s Garage: The Nissan Sports Sedan Concept

nissan sports conceptWith the 2014 Detroit Auto Show already off and running this week, Nissan unveiled their Nissan Sports Sedan Concept which might be the next Maxima.  The last couple of generation of Maximas have been kinda of boring and tame.  Hopefully, a Nismo tuned version will be down the line.

Frankie’s Garage: NISMO Festival 2013

nismo festivalThis past November 2013 in the “Land of the Rising Sun” Japan, the NISMO Festival 2013 took place at Fuji Speedway.  Over 30,000 Nissan fans gathered at this annual special event.  NISMO TV recaps the festival with some amazing highlights and classic iconic Nissan rides.

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Frankie’s Garage: Nissan @ 2013 Tokyo Motor Show

nissan bluebirdThe 2013 Tokyo Motor Show recently took placed in Tokyo, Japan and Nissan unveiled a couple of street montsers.   First, everybody thought Nissan was going to bring back the Silva (240) or a replacement model of the 370Z, but instead Nissan brought out 2 concepts.  The Datsun 510 Bluebird is back with these two models:  Nissan IDx Freeflow and the NISMO tuned IDx.

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