You’d think Nissan made a huge leap in technology and performance when it moved from the GT-R R34 to the current model, the R35, and you’d be right. The older car only came with 280 hp from the factory, and actually none of the numbers stack in its favor against the newer car.
The only area where it’s comparable is braking, but that’s because the R34’s brakes are pretty big and the fact that the R35 is considerably heavier.
The R34 is really just a collector’s piece nowadays; you hardly ever get to see one, and all it shows really is just how much more computers have done for cars since it was cutting-edge.
Your craving for an R34 is justified, though, as it’s definitely a special car, and while it doesn’t even come close to the new one in terms of sheer go, as an experience in itself it is worth having.
Scroll down and check out the two generations of GT-R put side by side and compared by CarThrottle.