2024 Nissan GT-R Brings Back Rare Colors, T-Spec Special Edition

Welcome back, Millennium Jade and Midnight Purple!

Nissan took the wraps off the 2024 GT-R early Friday morning in its native Japan. The stalwart super coupe shows up for its 15th model year in North America—after skipping 2022—with some styling tweaks, a returning trim, and two exterior shades pulled from the history books.

The changes are as subtle as ever, as evidenced by this little nugget of info in the press release: “demonstrating the team’s attention to every detail, engineers even closely scrutinized the mesh used in the front grille and employed a thinner mesh to further enhance cooling and reduce drag.” Redesigned bumpers are the main tell here, including a body-colored bar across the front grille, and cleaner front corners now housing LED foglights split into a honeycomb pattern. The big change out back consists of an F1-style lower rear brake light. These changes apply to both the “base” model (once again dubbed Premium), as well as the returning T-Spec special edition. Nissan says the car’s drag coefficient remains 0.26 Cd, even though downforce has increased.

The high-performance GT-R Nismo model returns for 2024 as well, with its own round of visual (and functional) updates. Most of the changes are wrought in carbon fiber, including the front grille insert and side extensions on the rear—the latter making the GT-R look even more like a SuperGT track escapee. A redesigned rear wing sits upon the unique big-lip trunk, both taller and with more surface area. Normal Nismo not enough? An appearance package adds red-accented versions of its 20-inch RAYS forged wheels, a clear coat to the carbon fiber hood, and what Nissan says is “an exclusive engine cover design.”

The Nismo swaps out the regular leather seats for heavily bolstered Recaro items, plus a unique steering wheel with red straight-ahead stripe.

As has been the case for years now, all GT-R models come powered by a 3.8-liter twin-turbo V6. In Premium and T-Spec it produces 565 hp and 467 pound-feet; the Nismo bumps those figures to 600 and 481, respectively. Power goes through a six-speed dual-clutch transmission to all four wheels. While the Premium uses a steel braking system co-developed with Brembo, the T-Spec and Nismo use larger carbon-ceramic discs, measuring 16.1 inches up front and 15.3 inches out back. New for 2024, the Nismo now features a front limited slip differential.

With this latest model, the GT-R will become the longest-running generation of car currently on sale in the US and Canada. It debuted in the middle of ’08 as a MY2009. It did take last year off however, something the Dodge Challenger, which also debuted in 2008 and wraps up production this year, did not. Dodge also sold 55,060 Challengers last year; Nissan moved 57 GT-Rs.

Nissan says the 2024 GT-R will begin showing up at “select” US dealerships this spring, with the GT-R to follow in the summer. While Nissan has yet to announce pricing, we expect it to fall in line with the 2023 models: $115,435 for the Premium, and $212,635 for the Nismo, both including destination.

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