Nissan R35 GT-R: What One Costs in Australia Now

The Nissan R35 GT-R is no longer sold new in Australia, and it did not go quietly. It was not killed off by slow sales or a lack of interest. It was killed by a safety rule.

Here is where the money sits, what the car actually costs to keep on the road, and why any used price you read should be treated with suspicion, including ours.

What the last ones cost new

Model year 2022 was the final GT-R offered in Australia. Before on-road costs, the range looked like this:

• GT-R Premium: $193,800
• GT-R T-Spec: $256,700
• GT-R NISMO SV: $393,800

Those are list prices before on-road costs. On a car in this bracket, Luxury Car Tax and stamp duty add a great deal more, and how much depends on which state you register in. We have set that out in our breakdown of what you actually pay on top.

Very few of those final cars landed. Fewer than fifty MY22 GT-Rs made it to Australia before importation stopped, and around thirty of those were the T-Spec.

Why it ended here before it ended everywhere else

This is the part most write-ups skip, and it is the most interesting thing about the R35’s Australian story.

Australian Design Rule 85/00, covering pole side impact performance, took effect on 1 November 2021. The R35 could not meet it. The car was designed in the mid 2000s and there was no realistic way to re-engineer a fifteen year old structure to pass a new side impact standard for a market our size.

So Nissan stopped bringing it in. Australia lost the GT-R years before the rest of the world did, and global production only wound up in 2025 after roughly eighteen years.

That matters to a buyer today, because it means the Australian supply is fixed and small. Nothing new is coming, and nothing new has come since 2021.

What it costs to service

Start with the thing almost nobody mentions. The GT-R has never been on Nissan Australia’s capped price servicing list.

That is not an oversight. The R35 was sold and serviced through a small number of Nissan High Performance Centres rather than ordinary dealers, and it sits outside the standard servicing program entirely. Nissan Australia’s current price guide covers the ARIYA, JUKE, QASHQAI, X-TRAIL, PATHFINDER, PATROL, NAVARA and Z. There is no GT-R line on it.

So there is no published figure to quote, and you should be sceptical of anyone who quotes one confidently. Ring a High Performance Centre and get a number for your specific car and kilometres.

The one servicing item worth knowing about regardless of price is the gearbox oil. GT-R specialists generally work to a much shorter change interval on the transmission than owners expect, and a car without documented gearbox fluid history is a car with a question mark on it.

The gearbox, and the number everyone argues about

The R35’s GR6 dual-clutch transaxle is the component that dominates every conversation about GT-R ownership costs, usually with a frightening figure attached.

We are not going to give you that figure, because no Australian workshop publishes a standard rebuild price for one. What can be said honestly is that a GR6 rebuild is a five figure job in Australia, and that the only publicly listed Australian price we could find, around $12,000, is for an upgraded changeover unit rated well beyond standard output, which is a different thing to a like for like repair.

If you are seriously shopping, get two quotes from Australian specialists before you buy, not after. It is the single largest financial risk in owning one.

What to inspect

The R35 is a robust car that was frequently driven hard, which is a combination that rewards a careful inspection.

• Bell housing bearing rattle. A rattle at idle and low speed, common across model years and often showing up somewhere between 40,000 and 80,000 kilometres. It is a product of the transaxle layout. Listen at idle with the bonnet open.
• Pre-2011 transmission behaviour. Earlier cars had misshift problems and solenoid and clutch pack issues. Many are fixable without removing the box, but you want to know before you buy.
• Gearbox fluid history. The most important service record on the car.
• Brake rotors. The drilled Brembo discs crack under heavy use and are expensive to replace.
• Corrosion. Check the A-pillar and door junction and around the mirror bases on early cars. Door edge paint bubbling is a known weak point.
• The undertray. Very relevant here. Speed bumps and steep driveways take a toll, and damage underneath is easy to miss.
• Signs of a tune. Running rich, or a decatted exhaust, tells you how the car has lived.

One myth worth killing while we are here. Coil packs have a reputation as a characteristic GT-R failure item and, on the evidence, they are not. Neither are water pumps. Focus your attention on the driveline instead.

What we cannot tell you, and why

We cannot give you a reliable used price for an R35 in Australia, and we would rather say so than invent one.

The reason is that almost nothing is published. Australian classified listings show what sellers are asking, which is not what buyers are paying, and we do not treat asking prices as market data. Meanwhile the auction houses that do publish real sold results have had very few R35s through, and none we could verify in the last twelve months.

That gap is exactly why we started recording Australian auction results ourselves. When an R35 sells at an auction that publishes its results, it goes on the record here with the price, the date and a link to the source. Until then, the honest answer to “what is one worth” is that it depends entirely on condition, history and modifications, and that you should judge the car in front of you rather than a number in an article.

If you want the wider story of how this car earned its reputation, we have written about that in the R35 GT-R as a modern classic.

Prices in this article are Australian list prices before on-road costs for the 2022 model year, the final year of Australian availability. Servicing and inspection information was checked in August 2026.