Nissan is offering some relief to troubled GT-R owners

When the Japanese automaker Nissan released the R35 Nissan GT-R onto the U.S. market, they did so with a little hesitation. At the time it seemed a bit peculiar to me when Nissan’s Technology, Environment and Motorsports PR manager Colin Price refused to comment on camera about anything regarding Godzilla’s launch control. But only a couple of months later, everything started to make sense when GT-R owners began to complain about the car’s problematic transmission.

The problem is that the GT-R’s gear box wasn’t made to handle the constant abuse of lead footed American drivers and their inability to understand exactly how much stress repeated hard launches put on the super car’s drivetrain. The worst part of this is that that the R35’s high tech transmission doesn’t come cheap, a replacement unit will run owners about $20,000. After one particular victim of the less than bullet proof gear box took the Nissan motor company to court claiming that if they equipped the car with a function, it shouldn’t be his fault when the car goes kaput just because he is using it.

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