the only reason GM has survived up until this point is because of their trucks and SUVs. for sports cars and family sedans people are just going import these days it seems..

 

Ford outsells their trucks and SUV's, and GM still dominates every other car manufacturer on the planet... just so you know..

 

I can agree with that... somewhat anyways.

 

....thats because they're the biggest. I assure you, Toyota is doing 500 times better than GM right now.

The time for SUVs are over, gas prices are too high. They MIGHT drop severly after 2008 if by then.

 

You should read up some. There were Skylines loooong before there was such thing as the Skyline GT-R. The Skyline was basically a nicer Nissan passenger car and they decided to give it testicles and called it the Skyline GTR. The Skyline/G35 keeps with that name very well. As far as driving the 2007 GT-R based on the G35, I would rock one in a heartbeat. I think it's a good-looking, fast, and handles well.

Honestly, I could care less if Nissan were to make a small rwd roadster and call it the new 240sx. Honda has the S2000, Toyota has/had the MR-S, so why not Nissan? Hell, Ford did the same thing with the Capri.

 

.. so rebadging a Miata is cool?

.. and yes, I know a decent amount about the history of the Skyline. I still don't think the G35 lives up to the name, no matter what it started as.

 

all I know is that my car is inferior to a Mustang II.

 

You cannot honestly think that if Nissan rebadged a car from a different manufacturer and called it a 240SX that no one would care. There would be fucking riots at HIN with bonfires and homemade grenades.

 

Like I said, I don't care. I'll tell you what. If you can convince Ford to let Nissan market the Miata as the new 240sx, I will buy one.

Whether or not you think the Skyline lives up to its passenger car roots is beside the point. I don't think Nissan had the $1500 car buyer in mind when they designed it. I don't think the past 30 years of mustangs have lived up to their roots, but I don't see anyone complaining about that.

 

Modern day Mustangs are the best performing ones ever. Sometimes I don't understand you, yet don't want to argue because I lack the abilty to talk shit as well.