A man dreams, he looks towards the Sky...line...GT-R

Greetings all! VTECpony here, now a dream car for any person can be whatever they want it to be, it's the car that if they were given the choice of ANY car in the world, they would choose that one car. Of all the million dollar supercars, or eco-friendly smart car hybrids there's one car that I would choose in a heartbeat, and that, ladies and gentleman, would be the 2012 Nissan GT-R (Okay, I'd settle for any Skyline GT-R, they're that amazing).

2012 Nissan Skyline GT-R in GT Blue

(Image courtesy of http://wallpaper.imcphoto.net/nissan-skyline-gtr-wallpapers.html)

The Nissan Skyline is arguably one of Nissan's, if not, Japan's greatest automotive exports. The GT-R spec model of the Skyline were first produced and released in 1969 and became the flagship model for Nissan's performance vehicles, being a step above its current fleet specwise. Below is a small summarised infographic containing the history of the Skyline car, from its humble begininings as a 44kW Skyline Deluxe, to the 390kW race-spec GTR monster it is today.

The history of the Skyline

(Image courtesy of http://www.gtrcanada.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/nissan_skyline_history_gtrcanada.jpg)

The Nissan GT-R picked up where the Skyline GT-Rs left off, with production starting in 2007 till present, with the newly announced 2013 GT-R only just released. Now let's get down to numbers, the Nissan GT-R is a car made for performance driving, it is a beast, and as such it's specs speak to its design and purpose, to go fast.

The latest edition, 2013 Nissan GT-R

(Image courtesy of http://wallpaper.imcphoto.net/nissan-skyline-gtr-wallpapers.html)

The 2-door sports coupe has a front-engine and is all wheel drive, and the 3.8L VR38DETT  V6 twin-turbo engine goes from a standing start to 100km/h in approximately 3 seconds (crazy fast), and in 2011 earned the Guiness World Book of Records title for fastest 0-60mp/h in a 4-seater production car. The car puts out 404kW of power at the wheels (or approximately 542 horsepower), and weighs in at 1,730 kg.

The record breaking VR38DETT V6 twin-turbo engine

(Image courtesy of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nissan_GT-R_engine.jpg)

The GT-R is a beautiful example of Japanese performance and design, and brings together years of innovation and with a rich history of influential and significant Japanese exports behind it, is a car truly deserved of the title "Dream Car". And compared to your average Lamborghini or Ferrari, comes at a reasonable cost, with prices starting at the $175 000 mark, which is pretty reasonable, being a tenth of the price of some supercars.

That being said, my dream car is a car I wish to own one day, not a car I'll get from winning the lottery, and as such, the Nissan GT-R is my dream car.

-VTECpony