{"id":254,"date":"2008-11-07T19:38:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=254"},"modified":"2008-11-07T19:38:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T23:38:46","slug":"nissan-skyline-gt-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=254","title":{"rendered":"Nissan Skyline GT-R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A coworker just bought himself a brand new Nissan Skyline GT-R &#8211; it&#8217;s sitting out in the parking lot right now.\u00a0 The Skyline was re-introduced to the US market this year after a long hiatus. \u00a0 In their day, they were considered one of the best street legal cars made; and if reviews are to be believed &#8211; this version is even better.\u00a0 The new versions currently run about $75-80,000; and if you&#8217;re the first to buy one at a dealership &#8211; they&#8217;ll try to stick you with a $20,000 &#8216;retooling&#8217; fee so their shop can maintain it according to specs. (yes, he got this exact grey color)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.net\/special\/skyline.jpg?w=640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I actually, seriously, looked into buying one of these the last car purchase, but just couldn&#8217;t justify it.\u00a0 However, to give you an idea of how amazing these cars are for the price, $80,000 will buy you a car that beat every single porche, lambo, and all but 4 other super-cars reviewed on Top Gear by their professional driver.\u00a0 These cars are simply that amazing.\u00a0 And they don&#8217;t even stand out gaudily in traffic.\u00a0 They just look awesome.\u00a0 As a friend put it: &#8220;They look like they&#8217;ll steal your lunch money &#8211; and you&#8217;ll happily give it to them.&#8221; My hope is that in a few years I can pick up a used one of these for a considerably more reasonable price.<\/p>\n<p>My hat is off to you Marty &#8211; you lucky, lucky b@stard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A coworker just bought himself a brand new Nissan Skyline GT-R &#8211; it&#8217;s sitting out in the parking lot right now.\u00a0 The Skyline was re-introduced to the US market this year after a long hiatus. \u00a0 In their day, they were considered one of the best street legal cars made; and if reviews are to be believed &#8211; this version is even better.\u00a0 The new versions currently run about $75-80,000; and if you&#8217;re the first to buy one at a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=254\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-46","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}