To celebrate the GT-R?s legacy and honor its latest round of improvements, Nissan brought some of the most significant GT-R models to the 2016 New York auto show. If you’re thinking that in so doing Nissan may have upstaged many of the new-car debuts of other manufacturers, you’re right. Read on and make sure to click through the gallery to take in all the GT-R hotness you can handle.
While the 1964 Nissan S54 Skyline 2000GT was arguably the maker’s first attempt at building a performance vehicle, it was the 1969 arrival of the Skyline 2000GT-R that let the world know Nissan was serious. Legendary almost from the start, the GT-R name has become synonymous with Nissan performance.

1969 Nissan Skyline 2000GT-R (KPGC10)
Based on the freshly minted C10 Skyline, the 1969 Skyline 2000GT-R made its debut at the Tokyo Motor Show in the fall of 1969. It was the car’s legendary S20 2.0-liter inline six-cylinder engine that excited. Featuring dual overhead camshafts, a crossflow head with four valves per cylinder, hemispherical combustion chambers, and a trio of dual-throat Mikuni-Solex side-draft carburetors, it incorporated almost every known horsepower trick of the era to churn up 158 horsepower and 130 lb-ft of torque. While it can?t compare horsepower-wise to the numbers being produced by the American V-8s of the era, the S20 did more with less, a philosophy that Japanese makers would practice for decades. The two-door coupe version (KPGC10) of th...