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GOOD NEWS: GT-R COMING; Bad news: Not until '07.(News)(Brief Article)

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Byline: MARK VAUGHN

Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn confirms the Skyline GT-R will debut at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2007, with customer sales starting soon after that. The car will make "around 400 hp'' and offer "top-level driving performance.''

Video game fans on these shores who have long enjoyed the high-speed thrills of the GT-R will have a chance to drive it (so long as they can pony up the cash). Ghosn says the car will be sold here.

Sure, but why the long wait? Well, it's not as bad as the first proposal, which was for a 2008 or 2009 GT-R launch. And, if you haven't noticed, Nissan has been working on a lot of other products lately-and doing a pretty good job with them, too-so there weren't spare engineers to toil away on a fairly low-volume supercar. At one point, the company was looking for a partner to help share ...

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