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For a car that was never sold in the States, the Nissan Skyline GT-R sure has amassed a reputation for itself. Mostly it’s Millennial folk, who whetted their appetites on video games like Forza and Gran Turismo, and movies like the Fast & Furious franchise, who will immediately recognize this Nissan. It’s an old car now — more than 30 years old — but it seems newer. Maybe it feels newer because it’s largely unknown on our shores?

Skyline has been a famous nameplate in Japan since before Nissan took over Prince Motor Company, which originated the nameplate in 1957. Starting in the early 1980s, Nissan gave its chassis three-place alphanumeric codes —a single letter, to denote model line, and a two-digit number; the 1989-’94 Skyline models were known as the R32 generation. The all-new R32 Skylines launched in the fall of 1989 as a full range of coupes and sedans, with a selection of engines from a 90-horsepower, 1.8-liter inline-four to Nissan’s RB-family