The owner of this 2023 Nissan GT-R NISMO bought the car at an auction back in 2024 with 96 miles and is selling it after a couple of drives with roughly 500 miles on the clock. This year, he paid $3,000 for the insurance and hasn’t driven it once. So for him, the rare Nissan is basically a money pit. However, he took it to a dealership and hopes to cash in.
Just 547 miles or 880 kilometers. This is how far this 2023 Nissan GT-R NISMO has traveled since it rolled off the production line of the Tochigi Plant in Kaminokawa, Tochigi, Japan, three years ago. For the rest of the time, it was locked in a garage, while its chances of hitting the road are becoming ever slimmer.
Painted Jet Black Pearl paint code: GAG over a NISMO Black and Red interior in leather, which wraps the Recaro seats and door panels, the GT-R rides on 20-inch Rays wheels finished in metallic black with a red accent stripe along the outer lip, shod with Dunlop high-performance summer tires.
The owner of this 2023 Nissan GT-R NISMO took his car to a dealership in Ewing, New Jersey, along with the auction poster. Yes, he bought it at auction two years ago. He wears a T-shirt that shows his love for the R34. He had one, modified it, and eventually sold it.
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He has been nostalgic about it since. He had been flirting with the idea of buying one again, and he found it at a Barrett-Jackson auction in 2024, when he celebrated his father’s 70th birthday at the event. When the GT-R was auctioned, he got up on stage, placed the winning bid, and took it home.
He tinted the side windows and windshield “probably three times” and PPF-ed the front bumper. It sounds like he was planning to drive it. But things did not really go according to plan. He took his wife to the beach and went to a wedding in it, soon after he purchased it. Then he parked it and never touched it again.
He is only the second owner of the car. The GT-R had 96 miles (155 kilometers) on the clock when he bought it and is selling it with 547 miles. With that sort of ultra-low mileage, “I feel bad driving it,” he explains. He believes the time has come for it to go to someone else who will actually drive it.
How generous of him, isn’t it? However, when the owner of the dealership asks him if he would be selling it for $250,000, he says he wants an extra $100,000. So the car won’t be going anywhere for anything under $350,000.
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The 2023 Nissan GT-R NISMO hit the U.S. market with a starting price of $210,740, plus a $1,895 destination and handling charge. Nowadays, the model breaks the rules of vehicle depreciation. On the used car market, it commands a significant premium over the MSRP, selling for anything between $286,000 and $312,000.
Very low-mileage, all-original cars can go well beyond the $400,000 mark, and it makes complete sense nowadays. Across the world, total GT-R production run for the 2023 model year was capped at roughly 1,500 units.
Out of those 1,500 cars sold worldwide, only about 300 were built as the range-topping NISMO variant. A significant portion of production stayed in Japan. It is estimated that fewer than 100 units of the 2023 GT-R NISMO made it to the United States.
The Japan-made model is powered by the 3.8-liter twin-turbocharged V6, code-named VR38DETT, and fitted with GT3 racecar-derived turbochargers. Every single V6 in every single GT-R is completely hand-assembled from scratch by a select group of just nine master craftsmen, known as Takumi, at Nissan’s Yokohama plant. Each engine takes roughly six hours to build.
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When it is completed, it pushes out 600 horsepower (608 metric horsepower) and 481 pound-feet (652 Newton meters) of torque. Those are enough to make the car rocket from 0 to 60 mph (0 to 97 kph) in just 2.9 seconds, run the quarter mile in 10.8 seconds, with a trap speed of 128 mph (206 kph) and max out at 205 mph (330 kph). Those were numbers that helped it battle neck to neck with Ferraris and Lamborghinis at the track.
Nissan phased out the R35 GT-R that built a huge car cult around it, and that has been affectionately called Godzilla during its historic 18-year run. The automaker stopped taking orders for the model in Japan in March 2025. The final R35 GT-R, a Premium spec finished in Midnight Purple, rolled off the production line of the Tochigi plant on August 26, 2025, officially ending the production of the legendary model.
So, the only way for enthusiasts to get their hands on a Nissan GT-R NISMO, or any GT-R for that matter, is the used car market, where these cars come with prices that often go much above the sticker.
If the dealership pays $350,000 for the car, it will most likely add a solid premium when listing it for sale. The future owner has two scenarios: lock it inside the garage like owner number 1 and owner number 2 did or drive it until its wheels fall off. What would you do?
