Spied: Finally, a real glimpse at 2008 Nissan GT-R
Tokyo's Coolest Press Kit
To educate the rest of the world about the GT-R's long and illustrious heritage (the badge was first added to a high-performance six-cylinder Nissan Skyline back in 1969), Nissan PR chief Simon Sproule commissioned a bespoke manga comic about the car. Printed in English and Japanese--and reading from back to front, just like the real thing--the GT-R manga tells the story of the GT-R from its beginnings with the Prince Motor Company (taken over by Nissan in 1966) right through to the reveal of the GT-R Proto. Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, already a bona-fide manga star (in 2002, his life story appeared in a six-part serialization in Big Comic Superior, which sells 500,000 copies an issue), makes a couple of appearances.