I had a email with exactly the same reason for selling, but this time it was for a GXSR 1000 bike, up for sale in a South African Auto trader.

Guess when one does it, they all do it......

More of a performance saloon than a supercar.

Super normally only coming attached to cars that are at least approaching the 100k mark.

This really made me laugh. I thought a married man would know better than to blow 30K without the wife actually giving an OK.

I'm not sure anyone will buy it through scan though...

The force is weak in this one. No man mucle

Steve.

There is more to supercars than the purchase price. It might make a lot of people choke and cry to hear it, but the days of only a select few small european manufacturers making supercars are long gone. This thing goes as quick as a Lambo, and is just as sexy (I actually prefer this, to be honest). The fact that is says "Nissan" (like it does on countless micras) on it doesn't mean it isn't a supercar. Neither does that fact that it can transport 4 people with luggage and completely fail to destroy itself every 10 thousand miles.

By your logic about 8 or nine diesel Mondeos are a supercar. As indeed are the 11-tonne artics parked outside my office. Not sure i'd go on the pull in one, though.

One of the funniest things, I have seen in ages.

There are no hard and fast rules but in general if it's made to be and is properly fast it's a Super car.

If it goes fast and you have to sell a child for medical experimentation to buy it it's a Hyper car. 100k is an entry level hyper car.

The Paris Hilton connection is that she's got a Proper Supercar; an McMerc SLR.

Waaa waaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

See View 2. Which one's "the wife"?

If it's true then "Hell hath no fury....", but more like this guys is fed up with his toy penis extension and this line seems like it might get sympathy from all the other testoserone fueled knuckle-heads, who might want to buy it!

I'm sure I've seen this parked outside Scan ages before this story broke. Looks like nothing more than a bit of free publicity for them. Well, I hope they like this - DON'T BUY FROM SCAN, GO TO MICRODIRECT IN MANCHESTER INSTEAD.

"FOR SALE BY OWNER: Complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica. No longer needed. Got married last month. Wife knows everything."

A true super car should be able to hit 60 well under 6 seconds as well. I agree though that the Skyline is not a supercar.

I don't see how the Nissan Skyline is a 'penis extension' and Bugatti Veyron isn't. At least one can actually buy a Skyline.

Plus I've always considered the small penii angle to be nothing but the poor man's defense. There are a few people out there who lusted after these cars as children and then produced the means to buy one. Then with a big smile on their face at 155 mph proceeded to not give a toss what the rest of the world thought of them or their unit.

Bravo to them and here's to joining you soon.

That discounts the Porsche 911 GT3 too then... Still got it's beetle engine and a half hanging out the back!

To be honest, I don't think the location of the engine really matters. The only reason mid-engined is preferred is for the weight distributions, which improves handling.

If you can make a car handle with it's engine in a different place, then all well and good. Although it did take Porsche about 40 years! lol!

And yes, the GTR is an awesome bit of kit. I've had the pleasure of been driven down the lanes in one by a slightly deranged owner, scared the cr*p outta me!

FYI, when Middlehurst Nissan started bringing the GTR into the country, Clarkson stood by a nice silver Vspec and said "Welcome to Britain master" on Top Gear.

So the boot is small enough to cram 2 kids into, but the 3rd won't fit in the glovebox?

A closer look at the scan website indicates that they have tuned this car themselves and there's video (youtube) footage of it in a drag race against a Ferrari (no, they don't say which model and it's hard to tell from the footage).

Needless to say the Skyline wins handsomely.

That'll do me!

What a load of viewpoints on what is or is not a Supercar.

I wasn't aware that engine placement was a defining criteria. And, on that subject, could someone please clarify what "mid-engine" means ? An engine placed under the drivers' seat ?

For me, a Supercar is a car that has more horsepower than any sane man can possibly handle. The Bugatti Veyron, with 1000hp, is indeed the very definition of a supercar. Any high-end Ferrari, Lamborghini, or the Maserati MC12 are as well. In general, anything with over 500hp is a supercar because, with that kind of power, you have to have proper air penetration, braking power and weight distribution simply to prevent the rich kid from killing himself in the first mile.

Porsche does not make supercars, they make playboy millionaire toys. The Porsche 911 GT3 is a 400-something horsepower toy (a nice one), not a supercar - but its hp-to-weight ratio is probably in line the Bugatti anyway.

Start the flamewars !

..you all suck at em ;)

supercar's aren't *strictly* defined in the normal sense

the skyline is a supercar in my eyes, and a lot of ppl's eyes really...its extremely fast, AMAZING handling, looks beautiful..

the skyline is one of my all time fave cars..and if you wanna see a real supercar check out the z-tune skyline (google to the rescue)

o and whoever said veyron..thats a hypercar by everyone's standards :D

0-60 in up to 4 seconds

0-100mph in 7sec

0-200mph in 30sec

Standing quarter in 13sec, trap speed of 110mph

Standing mile trap speed of 200mph

Top speed at least 200mph

That's what wikipedia says, Mr Orlowski!

My personal take on things is that you've got to be noticeably faster than the fastest drug dealer car or bog-standard sports car on the market, so the Skyline GTR and any Porsche 911 at the moment I guess.

And stop going on about the Bugatti Veyron, it's old news and it's comparitively slow now, the Ultimate Aero TT is what it's all about these days...

...under 6 seconds to 60.

a) it's a pintless and stupid test, but 6 seconds is nothing, absolutely nothing these days. 4 seconds is the entry level target... and less than 9 to 100.

b) the Skyline is a supercar, they're phenomenal, bought out from the Playstation generation and a little numb to drive, but stunning nonetheless... on an average UK road a Porsche 911, Ferrari 360 etc (cars from the same era) would have a difficult time against one, the handling is almost computer-game esque.

engined positioning refers to the position relative to the axles

front engine - over the front axle

rear engined - over the rear axle

mid engined - between the axles

As others have already pointed out, this car has been parked outside scan for a long time, I've seen it there myself for a couple of years at minimum, so its just a joke description