The Stuff of Dreams - A 1999 Bayside Blue Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R V-Spec
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- Опубліковано 22 сер 2022
- In today's video, courtesy of fellow UA-camr @iDeactivateMC I am driving a gorgeous Bayside blue Skyline R34 GT-R V-Spec. This car is as close to standard as any Skyline is likely to get, so what's it like?
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Thanks very much for featuring the R34 on the channel!
Was a pleasure, great video!
It has the right colour.
what other cool cars do you own? those views before the adpocalypse would have paid veeeeeeery nicely
Great car
u changed the exhaust?
@@anyau This car is owned by motoring journalist who works for speedhunters, his name is Mark Riccioni. IdeactivateMC's name is Anthony
JDM cars of the 90's and 00's were cool for the value they were when compared to exotics of their time. Unfortunately they now command prices that would get you into more prestigious brands - while this doesn't make them less fascinating for what they are, my excitement is dulled knowing many people (enthusiasts) won't ever get the chance to experience them because of the price of admission.
Crazy and sad that video games and anime inflated the prices of real life cars
Perfectly said
@@peter7582 crazy indeed
This so much. I know deep down that it's impossible personally to experience one of these jewels of JDM because of the absurd price tags nowadays. It hurts, especially when having grown up in the 90's with cars like the R34 GTR, MK4 Supra etc being the icons and cars i looked up to as a youngster. Heck, even non-knackered Evos & STI's are approaching very high price tags.
Not only Bayside Blue, but with the iconic white Nismo 5 spoke wheels. This exact spec was my absolute dream car during my late teens.
Wait til u see the number plate
Brings back early 2000s Need for speed and Gran Turismo nostalgia!
I’ve always been a WRX/Evo type, but I’ve always got love for a GT-R.
Owned a stock completely original R33 - brilliant car and utterly reliable. Should have hung on to it!
Im currently in the process of deciding which one i actually want to buy. I can buy a r34 gtt and have it imported over her by December. Or i can wait an extra year and pay extra for an r34 gtr in bsb or mp2 and also wait an extra 2 years until 2025 for it to even ship out let alone arrive. But im leaning more towards putting a downpayment and keeping a gtr in japan until its kegal to import.
Ive thought of bringing a r32 gtr but it costs the same as a r34 gtt im just stuck but i got time before the gtr is legal, i just mainly dont want prices going up even higher to where even high earners cant get it😔
So much nostalgia... and those RB noises. Midnight Purple is just as cool on these cars in my opinion.
Midnight purple is way better
I know why, gt5 on playstation, I was obsesssed with my one, it was the key to the unlocking of the.premium racers on the game, when I got the mazda and the Sauber Merc.
I started doing 6+ minute laps
on the nordschliefe.
White is best for these imo
Bayside looks too Subaru ish and midnight reminds me of early 00s ricer harlequin paintjobs
Blue on a skyline, purple on a Sylvia preferably imo
I drove a gun metal gray R32 in Japan.
It was everything you said and felt unbreakable.
Japan has great driving roads :)
Such a great presentation, like the perfect middle between Hammond and May. Love your channel. No filler either, just concise out of car and comprehensive in car without droning on or sucking up to industry reps. All while reviewing high end cars and econoboxes with a focus on smart buys, whether toys or commuters. Seriously the Goldilocks of UA-cam car channels.
Such an underrated/under-viewed channel
My dream car as a kid, along with I suspect many other people my age!
Took the words out of my mouth.
Dream car as kid, out of budget as 40 year old, gutted
I'd just get which gtr was the least expensive at the time. They're all brilliant and can easily be tuned to 500plus bhp. Rather have a mint 33 than a knackered 34
Wonderful cars, but 6 figures? That's some crazy shit right there - I grew up in the 80's and 90's and lusted after these things as a kid/teen/young man - but now I'm a middle aged fart just can't understand why people are spending this kind of money on one.
@@Beer_Dad1975
The same could be said for many classic cars though. E-Type, AC Cobra, Stratos
@@keysersoze2313 Very true, and things are always worth what someone is willing to pay for them - I guess my mindset is still back in the mid to late 00's when you could pick up a JDM import R34 for very reasonable money, and I'm just having difficulty adjusting to the new reality 🙂
Bayside Blue is awesome, but it doesn't beat Midnight Purple! That is THE colour I would choose for my dream R34.
Second only to millenium jade
Always wanted an ice white 32
I think it'd be interesting to test a Mitsubishi 3000GT/GTO to see if it deserved the disinterest.
Agree
James did one already. Video is on his channel, worth a look.
Flew from Amsterdam to Liverpool in 2000 to go to Middlehurst Nissan in St Helens to drive one of these. In the end the price and the RHD stopped me from buying one but I wanted one of these more than any Porsche or Ferrari at the time. Nowadays I don't lust after any car anymore, but the Skyline is still special.
Thank you for validating why we bought 2 of them, they are truly a drivers car who cares about the crappy 90's interior when the driving experience is this good.
Thanks Jay for a great piece.
I'm lucky to have bought a Bayside blue R34 GTR V-Spec when they were reasonably priced. But as it is one of the 80 cars sold by Nissan UK, it has around 400 bhp as most had the original ECU remapped by Middlehurst Motorsport before being sold. They also had HKS Super Powerflow induction and exhaust, Connolly leather interior and downgraded ('e' marked) headlights. NISMO also insisted that all UK cars had engine oil coolers as they could be used on Autobahns. (That's a total of 4 oil coolers!)
I used to use it as a daily driver, and sometimes, it still goes to the supermarket.
It has enough boot space for a long weekend for 3 or 4 at a push, and once you get into the back seats, they are very comfortable.
If i had any sense, i would sell it for a huge profit. But what i would replace it with?
I'm afraid the R34 was the last of a kind. Enough electronics to give that lovely longitudinal streight six plenty of go, but not too much that you lose feeling through electric steering and traction control/anti slip etc.
(I did delete the rear wheel stearing.)
Yeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhh, I love these cars! For me it's either Bayside blue or midnight purple.
Love every minute in mine, even though its a GTT. As Jay said, even with mine putting down 450hp, you dont really need the 4wd. One of the best steering feel i've ever had, and throttle-by-cable is just lovely.
Sounds amazing, must be scary in the wet?
@@SM-ft2jv the RB25Neo in the GTT has a switch-over, kinda like V-Tec, so if you stay below that, its like driving a Micra 😊
If you push above 4500 you'll get all the revs in a splitsecond 😂 with the original ECU the Car has a traction control (theres a additional Flap in the Throttlebody)
The Skyline has a long wheelbase, so it isnt twitchy atleast.
The twinturbo in the RB26 is more linear so easier
@@Malar1898 Just watched your GTT video, looks a dream 👍 hold onto her
Love my r33 gtst. It isnt the tidiest but the steering feel is just unmatched. Never driven a car with steering feel like it
@@liamlindsay1458 i fully believe that! Im selling my R8 to build a Nurburgring-Toy and it will be either a S2K or R33 GSTS 😁😁
The R33 is the classic Skyline that does it for me.
Yeah, the R33 is the best looking skyline to me. But I'd take any of them😂
I want the 33 😍
It's a toss up between the Hako and the Kenmeri for me. Really unfortunate that the nameplate never returned for the R30-31 platforms.
Always prefered the Mitsubishi GTO, Supra MK4, NSX and RX7 over the R34... but having said that, no one can argue with its amazing performance!
NSX and GTO for me but soft spot for R34 and fc RX7
Keep up the great content Jayemm, love to see more cars from this era on the channel
Thoroughly enjoyed this content! One of those cars that’s massively hyped but I never seem to see much modern content on outside of the highly modded examples! Fascinating stuff! More stuff like this please James!
This is one of the videos I've secretly wanted you to make in ages. I'm so grateful that you did this, what a car and what a well put together video, thank you 👍🏻.
Though I’ve always loved the R34, the R32 has always been my dream car. Hope I can afford one down the road :)
More fun to drive too. I have one and it's such a delight.
Same, with every penny that I safe their value is gaining with a penny too unfortunately..
@@db_bad Fantastic to hear you're enjoying your R32. As one should, really.
@@Kyuzeth thanks! Yep, they were meant to be driven :)
My introduction to the R34 was the Max Power days. Oh and not to mention Smokey Nagata with his 1000hp Top Secret one…when 1000hp was an astronomical power figure.
It’s a great car, but if folk are really paying £180K for a Nissan these days then the classic car market has surely gone nuts! I expect we’ll be seeing a significant correction quite soon, given the general state of things and projected direction.
Just love your work man. And what a great review of such a special car!
Yesterday I watched you review a VW 1978 camper, today, a 1999 skyline GTR . That’s what I love about your channel! Both stunners btw, love your work. Keep bringing us lovely interesting cars.
Thanks J, enjoyed that, it does have presence, & a great sound. 🙏
Stunning car, one of my dream ones for basically the reasons you mentioned. Appreciate the owner letting you share it with us all
Lovely car! Thanks for the upload. Made my commute home much more enjoyable!
What an icon! Thank you for this excellent review. Your enthusiasm is infectious
Awesome colour on this car. Nice video. Keep up the good work.
I had an R33 GTST and now have an S15 Silvia, but every time I see an R34 there's something about them that makes me want to push harder to do well in life and see myself in one. Great video!
So glad you got to hammer it! Subbed to his Minecraft channel just because he's obviously a cool guy. Nice to see you hammering it around those lovely roads.
Thanks Antony!
Very accurate assessment James. My son has an identical GTR to the one you road tested, which he has owned for 8 years. It is an awesome car, even with Australia's bumpy roads.
Brilliant!!! As for Cars, and Life, Love is the Answer!!!
Appreciate the shoutout - these truly are a particularly special car.
Another lovely video James, thanks for sharing your passion for this car. 😎
Thanks for watching!
@@JayEmmOnCars Thanks - I still owe you an email about my Audi S2. It is now successfully back on the road but just needs the boost leak fixing.... Msg you soon 👍👍
Congratulations 🎉🎈🎊🍾! I am glad you waited for a Bayside Blue. That’s the R34 color.
Go get one now. (:
Driving the dream indeed. Always slightly beyond my budget sadly, and that’s even when I was rolling around in E34/39 M5s!
Another great vid James 👍🏾👍🏾
Totally agree James. Cracking colour. It really is THE colour for the car. The last time mine was in the garage, the young lady behind the desk said: “Oh, orange, we don’t see many of those” in a complimentary way, not the why the hell didn’t you buy the grey everyone else does! I think the pattern is slightly changing thankfully. With new cars we are starting to see a little more colour again. All these things go in cycles, don’t they? It’s just the latest fashion. Personally, I’ve always just bought what I like and in particular what I think suits the car.
Clever ad placement, kudos.
An R34 in bayside blue always reminds me of playing Need for speed underground in the early 2000’s with my then 7 year old son. It came in that colour as standard.
The R33 is actually my favourite GT-R having first read about it as the replacement for R32 in Autocar magazine in the early 90’s.
GLORIOUS, thank you.
usually hate ur videos n how u present but this was top notch 👍
love the sound of it....
absolute dream car. as it is for many. beautiful.
There is something about the Skyline GTR that just draws you in. I've not seen many up here in Rural North Yorkshire but the ones I have seen all made me salivate. I think they are a genuinely great looking car. Stylish with a definite look of aggression. These are bloody superb now but at the time must have made the opposition look very awful indeed.
Beautiful! I still have the UK sales brochure book for the R33 and R34 and the Autoart 1/18 model. Closest I’ll ever come to owning one ha ha
Looks phenomenal.
I’m with you - in Bayside Blue the R34 GT-R is a dream car. And this example is probably the most perfect example of what I would want if I was lucky enough to buy one.
(FYI, the R33 has to be Midnight Purple to be a dream car too. Although they also look great in white)
I raced a R34 in bayside blue when it was first around in the 2000's, pulled up to a nice chap at the lights at 2am was talking to him about the car and he said do you want a race, i was on a tuned scooter 172cc beat him in the first 3ft or so then if went roaring off haha was great to see one being driven like that.
Always loved them such a legend car amazing how expensive they have become.
Hi James lovely video I am a jdm fan and petrol head , I always wanted one but sadly just out of reach even at £25,000 when I really started to appreciate this marvellous car, anyway good luck to the luck owner and I do hope he enjoys it to the max.
Absolutely iconic car!
Small details are everything, and bayside blue is only topped by Midnight Purple imo!
One of my all time favourite cars!
Should review a Nissan Laurel or Cedric relative to the year of the Skyline. Also, review a Nissan Datsun 280C 430. Would be a blast.
Great review on an iconic car. Thanks for sharing with us.
This car in midnight purple with a reliable 600ish horsepower is my dream car. Love the review
Awesome video 👏 amazing how much these are worth now but it makes sense
Always preferred the midnight purple but can not deny that Bayside Blue is iconic and still absolutely beautiful.
I prefer the looks of the s15 Silvia but daaaaaaamn the r34 is still in my top 5 JDM!
That sound alone...👂🤗
I love the 90s JDM cars. I had the privilege of owning a 91 Nissan 240 SX SE hatchback and a 91 Supra turbo as a teenager in the 90s. The car in this video is my dream car. I dream of owning a Bayside Blue R34 with all of the Z tune/Omori factory bits. I blame the PS1 and Gran Turismo lol
I am a musician with decades of experience and that exhaust sound is truly musical. the stuff of dreams for sure.
I absolutely LOVE this car, but the price they command is too rich for me. I am perfectly happy with my S2000!
I owned quite a few JDM cars in the 90'/00's. The GTR is a nice car and I wouldn't say no, but you would need your head examined to pay that sort of money for one. Most of the point of a grey JDM was performance per pound.
I used to have a GTS-T R33 - just one turbo, and only RWD - but otherwise still a brilliant car. You're right that the HICAS was a little unnerving. It basically did nothing at all at low speeds. But get it loaded up with about half a G lateral and suddenly the rear would move out, like you'd just run out of grip. Stay calm, keep your foot in, and it settles and "locks" and becomes stable and yeah - it's pretty cool. But the temptation to twitch your right foot is very strong - do that and it's Code Brown time. It was very much a "go round corner faster" thing, and not a "try to hide the fact that you have a big fat car" which is what they all use it for these days.
Interior: Still far better than what came out the last 20 years. So it may not be expensive looking but put together well. Quality is not only having expensive leather on the surface... Money was put into other things. That it´s what about.
Nice to see a stock one.
R34 is my personal favourite however it was a boss with a 680bhp R33 who blasted me up the A320 which made me respect and love the skyline what an exquisite, indulgent car
As a way to prove James' point, one of the bigger UA-camrs I follow is Mav. He's best known for his truck camping videos out of his 2011 F150. He lives in Duluth, Minnesota and often lives out of that truck (modified to make it more comfortable) while either fishing all over the area, or taking long road trips to visit new places to do the same; not too long ago, he went on an epic drive all the way down to Baja California.
And yet, not too long ago, he picked up a gift to himself: a brand new Mercedes-Benz AMG G63S. Watching that video, of him first showing his journey on YT, from a small kid, to getting into the trend of finger-boarding, to moving on to what he does now, and then going to get the car, was awesome. And it's clear he loves his car.
Great car drove one when they came out my uncle had one . I have Toyota celica vvti t230 mrk7 1999 completely standard apart from new shocks .
You can tell the owner drives this, no show pony. And I love it!
One of my ultimate dream cars! 😍
My brother had a black R32 GTR non vspec with racing harnesses. It had 5/6 spoke chrome deep dish wheels and that rb26 revved to 8k, the straight 6 was gorgeous to the ears burbling down the A13 from Limehouse to Dagenham 😆 and he also had a few r33's in different colours but for me the r32 will always stand out
Yes Jayemm it is brilliant
One of the world’s great drivers cars. Although despised in motor racing circles in Australia it is much admired and respected by enthusiasts over here.
Beautiful machine!! 👍🏼😎👍🏼
That exhaust note- just wow. Almost as beautiful as my Tesla
Great review. Just want to add; technically, yes, you can fit two adults in the back. But it is unbelievably cramped!
I'd love to see a review of a GT-T, GT-ST, or even a manual Stagea RS, to compare to the GT-R.
woah 2 worlds colliding. used to watch his channel years ago
What a stunning example just brilliant 🚙👌👌👌
Totally agree on the colour 👌🏻
I love at the start when it’s just the car sound, the caption on my tv says in brackets (music) haha
Amaziiiiing
There's a UA-camr who reviews games called Angry Joe, and I noticed in one of his videos that he has a Mitsubishi 3000GT.
Bucket list car for sure. And yes, Bayside Blue is the *only* colour choice.
Amazing car
The blue and purple are the ones but Z tune silver is the the ultimate for me so the underrated silver colour all the way
Petition for James to get his own Bayside Blue R34 GT-R V-Spec, guys.
Also, I used to be a 'Bayside Blue or nothing' guy, but those Midnight Purple II pearlescent paint has been doing bad things to me lately...
Midnight Purple III is even better ;)
I was always a fan of the Millennium Jade, I would suffer a GTR in Bayside Blue though
Before the pandemic therr was an MP R34 selling near my work for around 180... who knows what it would be now
@@joe718gt4 Back in the early 2000's when I was grey importing into Australia, we'd haggle somewhere in the 50-80k AUD
Now I don't think you're getting a proper GTR from that era under 200 unless there's something really wrong with it... of which there's a few of those! :)
The yanks will buy from anywhere, they bought R32's from Australia and will more than likely buy R34's from the UK if its the right price
Decent boot. Get 4 people in it. Panned to interior little too late lol. Got me thinking about 4 small people in the nice clean boot.
NICE!
I dearly miss my R34gtt. I was also lucky enough to drive an R32 gtr up the Mazda turnpike. They are just amazing cars, although that screaming RB and the turbos are constantly wooing you into being a hooligan. I'll have one again one day for sure.
R34 GTR was listed for sale in NZ back in the day, not sure how many were sold. R32 GTR was sold here in Australia and I remember seeing one at Nissan as a kid, memory was it costing $5,000,000… it didn’t but it may as well have been. Got to own many skylines over the years in the early 2000s, never thought much of the R34, preferred the Supra much more, there was a saying in Australia back in the early 2000s, skylines were like arseholes, everyone had one. Cool video!
Thank god it hasn't been riced up. Apart from Z-tune nismo bits. But I'd have it vanilla, looks cleaner. Great car, great review.
Nom bloody nom 😝 epic epic car
This along with the Pikes Peak nutter Gran Turismo game legend cars. What a machine!
I think his point towards the end is already true people care what youtubers drive rather than footballers
Midnight purple is also an incredible colour for one of these
Nearly bought one of these back in the day
Love these, 12 in 99 and this was my all time dream car back then, largely thanks to gran turismo 2. But 150k is some price tag 😳
Absolutely beautiful 😍