Overview

• The last car—a Midnight Purple Premium Edition T-Spec—left the Tochigi line for a Japanese customer, closing production in the model’s final market.
• Roughly 48,000 R35s were built since 2007, each powered by a hand-assembled VR38DETT V6 crafted by a core team of nine Takumi at Yokohama.
• CEO Ivan Espinosa thanked fans and said the GT-R badge will “evolve and reemerge,” while noting there is no finalized plan yet for the next model.
• Over its run the R35 logged standout feats, including a 7:08.679 Nürburgring NISMO lap, a sub-minute Tsukuba time, a Bathurst 12-Hour win, and the Guinness fastest drift.
• Sales had already ended in Europe in 2022 and in the U.S. last year, and some outlets note corporate headwinds that could influence any successor’s timeline.