There's just one Top Trumps department in which the Ultima falls (relatively) short: top speed. It'll achieve 0-100-0mph in 8.8 seconds, around a second quicker than the Bugatti despite the Ultima's tech-eschewing manual gearbox and its lack of four-wheel drive or fancy electronic nannies. Yep, Fast and Furious fans, this is a Ten Second Car. Just 0.3sec later it completes the quarter-mile at 156mph. The result? We're told the range-topping Evolution hits 60mph in 2.3 seconds, 0-100mph takes 4.9 seconds while 150mph is reached in 8.9 seconds. The Ultima is a tenth of Veyron money, though, and at 950kg, weighs half as much. Think that sounds like a lot for a British-industry supercar? Well, its 6.8-litre supercharged V8 cranks out 1020bhp, more than a Bugatti Veyron. This is probably a sensible idea.īut it's the £95,995 Evolution range-topper you really want to know about. Things kick off at a smidge over £38,000 for a 350bhp Evolution in kit form, or £65,995 if you'd rather the men in the factory built it. There are, in fact, 15 different power outputs available from a range of Chevrolet LS V8 engines. So replacing them with something called ‘Evolution' suggests something very very fast. Ultima, for the uninitiated, is a British sports car maker, and it's been selling its GT-R and Can Am models in both kit and pre-built forms for over 15 years now. Alongside the Show and Display letter, you will get a Car VX report and a clean Washington title.Meet the Ultima Evolution. Fear not though, as this one is imported under the Show and Display exemption, which means you can only drive it 2,500 miles (4,023 kilometers) per year. Now, you keen-eyed fans out there might notice that this R34 doesn’t comply with the 25-year rule when it comes to importing cars in the states. That said, right now the price sits at 155,000 dollars, and it will most certainly go up in the 6 days that are left on this auction. It isn't perfect, as there is a little bit of rust present, it has a few dings and scratches here and there, and pretty high mileage for a car of this rarity. This GT-R is up at auction in Ferndale, Washington. The straight six-engine is mated to a six-speed manual transmission and delivers the power to all four wheels via the ATTESA all-wheel drive system with a limited-slip differential. That said, the R34 GT-R has been dyno’d multiple times, churning out around 320 hp (324 ps). ![]() That power figure is there because of the Gentlemen's Agreement, which was a pact between Japanese manufacturers to not exceed it, trying to avoid a horsepower war. I say some horsepower, because, technically, it only has 276 hp (280 ps) - but that’s not true. That means that under the hood, we will find an RB26, pumping out some horsepower. This particular R34 has 95,000 miles on the clock (153,000 km) and is stock. This generation of the GT-R is the most popular one, and that comes as no surprise, being Brian O’Connor’s car of choice in a lot of Fast and Furious movies. It had the same RB26 engine, but with a few minor tweaks. In 1999, we got the most notorious Skyline GT-R of them all - the R34. That said, the R33 was a little bit of a step-down, growing larger and softer, but it still had that classic recipe and kept dominating on and off the track. ![]() It had the performance, the pedigree, and a bright future ahead. ![]() This absolutely insane performance put the GT-R back on the map as one of the best performance cars out there, and it earned the nickname we all know nowadays - “Godzilla.” Pairing that with the HICAS system and all-wheel drive, the GT-R was ready to dominate.Īnd it did dominate, winning an absurd 29 races…out of 29 starts - that's all of them. To achieve that, it got a new, twin-turbocharged straight-six, known as the RB26DETT. The next GT-R had one objective in mind - to dominate the Japanese Touring Car Championship. Seeing this, Skyline’s designer got back to the drawing board. But what the R31 brought to the table was the legendary HICAS four-wheel steering system and the RB family of engines. It wasn’t a bad car in any way, shape, or form, but it didn’t rise to the legendary status of the first generation. The R31 received mixed feelings from Skyline enthusiasts. The next Skyline, the R31, was released in 1985.
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