Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)
Why 4.8: The Group A destroyer that started the legend — and unlike the R34, cheap enough for long enough that its owners actually built and drove them. Import-market money is closing that window now.
Layout
Natural habitat
Ride comfort
Sound
The RB26 breathes through six individual throttle bodies and spins to 8,000, so there is a hard induction edge beneath the boost that ordinary turbo sixes lack. But twin turbos and a factory silencer mute most of it. Character rather than tone.
6-cylinder · turbocharged · 8,000 rpm redline · rated 7.0 / 10 for engine sound
Market value
Median asking price, good condition · €14k (2000) → €64k (2026), trending up · illustrative data
Child seats · ISOFIX
Built before ISOFIX existed, so there are no anchor points at all. A child seat here is a seatbelt installation, and the belt geometry of the period was not designed with one in mind.
Derived from production years and seating layout, not a per-car source. ISOFIX was standardised as ISO 13216 in 1997, required on new EU model types from 2011 and on all new EU cars from 2014.
The long version
The 25-year import rule turned this into America's most-discussed JDM unicorn the moment it cleared eligibility, and for a stretch the cars that landed here got the treatment their reputation promised — RB26 swaps, time-attack builds, real track miles from owners who had read the Group A history and wanted to relive it. Rising values are starting to change that math, pulling clean survivors toward collections instead of dyno cells. The tuner culture has not vanished, but it increasingly favors the owner who leaves the boost map alone and watches the number climb instead.