Welcome to another round of 'Spotted for Sale', where we troll the want-ads on mudah.my for something worthy of petrolheads to buy or dream of. This time its another classic. It's the Nissan Skyline GT-R R32, the first of the all-wheel drive Skyline GT-R that all JDM lovers go weak in the knees for. A 1990 vintage, and recently brought into Malaysia from Japan. This is one among 6 or so R32 Skyline GT-R that are currently on sale in the Klang Valley ranging from RM118,000 to RM150,000. Oh, prices stated are not inclusive the 6% GST. Ho Ho Ho.



Anyway, this shows that car importers are getting smart and bringing in older classic cars. Those being over 25 years old qualify as classic cars and come under a somewhat different import regulations as those under normal Approved Permit (AP) imports. Soon many will capitalise on this and we should be seeing Malaysia to be another one of those countries that older JDM classics find their next home. Even the Americans are importing right-hand-drive Skyline GT-Rs so eventually the car will be so rare in native Japan.

The R32 Skyline GT-R was the first of the fully equipped GT-Rs with all-wheel drive, four wheel steering, electronic slip control and all sorts of witchcraft. It had a twin turbocharged in-line 6 cylinder engine and made approximately 280bhp in stock form. In this form, it was super mild. Those fully done up RB26 engines could easily handle 600hp and actually, the R32 usually gets properly fun with at least 450hp at the wheels. So this Wine Red car, if stock could be something that is only decently fast by today's standard.


These days, the R35 GT-R isn't called the Skyline anymore. Just GT-R. It makes at least 500hp stock and gets to 0-100kmh in under 4 seconds easily. Those days the GT-R needed 5 seconds  or so. If you're lucky. But if you bought one of these, you'd be owning a JDM classic of the highest order. The first of something so potent. It may have that understated three box shape with some wider wheelarches but the R32 GT-R was fancied by many a petrolhead. In fact, if I bought this one, I'd leave it stock on the outside. I'd even keep the standard alloy wheels. It looks so yummy in that 1990s sor tof way. I'd may just up the boost so that it makes at least 350hp though. Stock in one is just too mundane and I am worried that a Golf GTI with some mods would knock the socks out of it. Yes, it may have 280hp...but this was in 1990 lah. twenty five years the engine may have lost a few Japanese horses here and there.

I have seen a few in action in my time. From the mid 1990s where a massively modified GT-R used to run in the sprint races on saturday night at the Batu Tiga circuit to passing by a house of a prominent Malaysian banker who had one since 1995 too. But now, there are 6 or so unregistered R32 GT-Rs which you can buy.

I think there could be a chance for more classic Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions, Subaru Imprezas and other JDM cars which are over 25 years old reaching our shores. Soon Malaysia is going to be vintage JDM paradise.

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I was perusing through some older photos and thought I'd like to discuss about a certain old Nissan that was, or still is quite popular with the car modding and drift scene - the Cefiro A31. This car was produced from 1988 to around 1994. It shared the same platform as the Nissan Skyline R32 and the lesser known Nissan Laurel. It shared its MacPherson strut front suspension with the S13 Silvia with the exception of the 4WD version which shares the same front and rear suspension as the R32 Skyline GT-R.



 It was labeled as a sports sedan but I think the 'sports' was just marketing. The stock 2.0liter Cefiro that sold in Malaysia came with a 4 speed auto gearbox (later 5 speed) driving the rear wheels and had puny 15 inch wheels.  the stock RB20E engine was a smooth straight 6 cylinder engine. It was quite responsive but it didn't really like to rev. The ride on stock tires was firm yet comfortable but due to the stock ride height you'd know that grip levels were pretty low. However, when it came to the looks of the Cefiro A31 it did have sleek body styling but it also suffered from too much overhang front and rear. In short it was a quite an ordinary car to drive with sedate looks. Unless it was wet and then you could do oversteer easily. And since it was rear wheel drive and had interchangeable parts with the R32 Skyline GT and GTR  the car ended up being a favourite of drifters and modders. Even Skyline body parts could be grafted onto it. The A31 was highly tunable and became a favourite.


Now moving closer to home, the car in the picture below was owned by a close friend who then sold it to my brother in-law back in 2002 - Sorry about the pic, I personally don't have more of it in my files. This white Cefiro was nothing like the stock normally aspirated straight Six 2.0 liter RB20. This white car had a Nissan RB20DET 2.0liter turbocharged engine from . I had driven it a couple of times and  I assumed that it had close to 240bhp at the engine in its state of tune based on the boost rating and the mods it was running. One could throw in the RB25 turbo or the top of the line GTR RB26 engine too. It depends on how deep one's pockets are.


The white car  ran on coil over shocks on 225/45/17 tires in front and 235/45/17 at the rear on classic Enkei RP01 rims. It had a custom built bodykit with a modified front GTR type bumper/lip, side skirts and rear Skyline lights. It definitely looked the part, especially with the very aggressive rear camber settings. This was more of a road car than one used to drift, as the rear differential wasn't one that locked easily. So you see, the car had more R32 Skyline parts thrown at it including having Skyline looks too.

While it was fast in a straight line, it was a handful to drive around town. The RB20DET engine is an old school turbocharged engine. You could tell due to the lazy off boost nature of the engine. It refuses to rev freely. This is probably due to the low compression nature of the engine. It comes on boost at around 3,500rpm. Boot it too early in exiting any tight corner, the tail will step out and you had better watch out as the steering may not be as fast as you'd like. It may be easy to hold a drift in the car if you have the space to do so but on the road, you wish the steering was a tad faster. Now add that firm slightly rock hard ride, it somehow becomes a tedious town car. Negotiating traffic tended to be a chore due to this. Off boost it was somehow worse to drive than a stock A31. The differential also contributed to low speed understeer and the ride while avoiding potholes was slightly troublesome. But give it an open road and you have over 200kmh on the speedometer. Close to 240kmh if I was not mistaken.

Anyway, my brother in-law held on to the car till 2005 and sold it off. I believe the car is now a metallic blue in colour and somewhere in the middle of Pahang. I suppose cars like these have a following because it costs around RM25,000 and above to buy one. Even the newer, front wheel drive  Cefiro A32 is actually cheaper to buy.

So there you have it. The cheapest way to own a pseudo Nissan Skyline R32, or in some cases, a R34. But as what my friend used to call his car in Malay rings true. The Nissan R-TERTIPU. Tertipu means 'misled' or 'misguided'. Aptly so wouldn't you agree?