More GTR Rumors w/image - Oct. 2004
 

Another rumor found with image:

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Snooper scoopers
By Chris Harris of the sunday times

There is someone who lives in Norfolk — identity unknown — who spends his days lurking in bushes near the Lotus HQ, taking photographs of cars. Not just any old cars, but pre-production models shrouded in secrecy and previously unseen by the outside world. Then he goes home, downloads the digital images, picks up the phone and calls the editor of one of the car magazines. A fee is agreed and a deal is done, and this is how he makes his living.
Known in the industry as “scoop photographers”, people such as this are the motoring world’s version of the paparazzi, constantly on the hunt for new car designs still in the development and testing phase. Depending on the quality of the shot and on the amount of interest in the car, they can get paid between £90 and £1,000 per photograph.

Two months ago the unknown Norfolk photographer caused something of a stir in the motoring world when he captured images of the new Nissan Skyline and sold them to Autocar magazine. Not only was this the first ever sighting of the new car, it also exposed the fact that much of Lotus’s work is for other, much larger manufacturers who’d rather the world didn’t know they need help.

Read the rest of this article here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...840530,00.html


https://www.gtrforums.com/images/gtr.jpg

that is not the new GTR look. it is a plane-jane v35 test mule with lotus suspension and probably the vq turbo. in all liklihood, if this is where the car is allegedly located, ie, lotus headquarters, the car is not as it seems -- notice the hood vent opening for cooling --they have a turbo under there. the skyline pictured here is undoubtedly different underneath this snap-shot disguise - is a mechanical-only, not aesthetic, prototype.

nissan is not going to leak anything, not one scrap of evidence, insofar as the appearance of the new GTR. they fully know the extent of how high a profile this whole saga is to the automotive industry. alas, we must wait!! how painful!

the disappointment may be that there is so much foreplay and hype in the media and culture arising out of the GTR legend that the actual car may disappoint some people's 'fantasy' of what it "should" look like. the plain reality is that we must accept it anyway, as it will be as it is. just as people balked at the new V35 GT350 skyline, with the above body style, they will balk, too, at whatever the GTR ends up looking like. there will be the elitist, purist, anti-new GTR camp, and the accepting, more open crowd who embraces new things and diversity.


my 2 cents worth.

there have always been people who didnt like the newest versions of the skyline. Most r32 owners hated the r33 when it came out, and alot of r32/r33 owners thought that the r34 was too heavy... It is just going to be that way.