The 3000GT was a sales success. The VR4 was much lower volume. Nobody in the U.S. cared about the R34 until Gran Tourismo and 2Fast2Furious because they never saw one or knew anybody who had one. Meanwhile your neighbor had a 300ZX. Your teacher had an RX7. Your uncle had a Trans Am or IROCZ. Your friends mom had a Supra, and so on and so forth. I would much rather have any of the cars from my teenage years mentioned above than any Skyline.

Give me the GNX over anything

90s japanese cars were the best and still are the nicest with those pop up headlights and rounded body styles. I love the 80s boxey Japanese car styles. Cars are ugly now

Yup I have heard 300 plus hp for those beautiful GN

The lies of the left about fuel and other crap.

300km/h faster than countach… I don’t think so

This guy doesn't know Sh-t it was a big hit going for 50 to 60 grand in late 87. We have 7 of them registered in our midwest chapter some are worth over 200k.

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they're still winning in the quartermile and selling at a premium

Well now that every single automotive KZbinr is all "The 3000GT is forgotten and a great bargain" everyone who has one for sale just added five grand to the price.

A female Mexican radio DJ abandoned one of these in a garage LA back in 2003😂 electrical problems basically bricked the car, we stored garbage in the car. It was beautiful to look at but damn we did that car dirty.

Why would you remove the turbos from a RB26 to ITB’s?

The 3000GT wasn't a DSM. The DSM was a plant in Illinois for the Eclipse, Laser, and Talon. Technically the last year of the DSM was 1995 but the 2Gs are all considered DSM due to the model production starting before DSM was defunct. The Sebring is more DSM than the 3S platform.

sorry but isnt there only a SOHC 164hp and DOHC 225hp along with the RT turbo 320? @3:15 says 255?

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3000GT 😁 VR4LIFE 😍 VR4EVER 😎

You are on drugs. It was the fastest car sold at one point. It had the most sophisticated features out there. It handled like a beast for a heavy car. I loved my VR-4 and wish I still had it. I believe this BS was AI generated.

The guy that lived in back of my trailer park says he had one. He said his had at least 800 horsepower and could beat anything on the road except an indecent exposure charge. He said he raced a fight jet and won. H I remember he used to wear cut-off blue jean shorts with a stained wife beater shirt tucked in over his bear belly with high top white tennis shoes. He got voted number 1 for the prettiest mullet in the trailer park. Looked just like Joe dirts one it did I tell ya! He ain't stuck around long because the po-leece come looking for him one day saying he been touching lil boys at the baseball field in a "not right way". Da po-leece even said he had roommate for him already. Some guy they called "Bubba da-but scrubber". I said "dats a weird last name!" But I heard that his Buick GNX went on to be used to make world peace because it was so dog gone beautiful...

they made around 330hp stock

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What shit video

Thanks man! I've reached out.

Lol What a bunch of mis information Look this is how it went down GM was moving from rwd to fwd platforms to be shared across divisions It didn't happen overnight it took years of engineering and everybody in every make knew it was coming Nothing nefarious at all here folks just evolution

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lol..GM failed The GNX... no way you can say this about a 2024 model GM anything in 40 more years. 2 doors and 300 HP...not everyone needs four doors or an SUV in the 80's ...These models go across the auction blocks very rarely... if its low miles and unmolested ..it well sell for well over 200 k price..They failed because the stopped production of rear drive platform models and to make Corvette execs happy..I could never fit in a Corvette but I can fit me and 3 other people and their luggage in this car. Pontiac had the same set up in a limited Firebird version.. not as popular as the Regal but just as fast...

General motors killed it because it caused a stir against Corvette

Because they fell apart. They were so badly built that they often came back for major repairs within a year and by ten years old almost all of them are junked out trash.

Not factual in multiple ways but some good information mixed in.

And a year later, GM killed Pontiac's Fiero.

It did not fail at all. 87 was the last year of that platform which includes the Buick Regal/ Grand Natinoal /GNX the Chevy Montecarlo/SS the Oldsmobile Cutlass/442/Hurst Edition and the Pontiac Grand Prix/2+2. 87 was the only year they made the GNX it was always meant to be a limited numbers car! Go online and look what one will cost you today and come back and tell me its a failure.

A legend and the car that started it all

Not a failure. At. All.

I'd say the RWD G Body platform went out swinging

Love those cars. They, in my opinion, were the best looking Buicks ever made.

It was changed to Winston Cup because Winston via RJ Reynolds Tobacco became the primary sponsor of the NASCAR premier series. The other reason the Buick Regal with the turbocharged V6 was created was because Buick started building "stock block turbo V6" for the CART series to run at the Indianapolis 500. It was part of the homologation rules for the CART series that to qualify for use in the series it had to have so many engines installed in production cars. The car was never a failure, it was a limited production vehicle to meet the requirements for CART. This is just like the limited production of the winged Dodge Daytonas and Plymouth Superbird. It's also the reason that there were Boss 429 Mustangs and 426 Hemi Chargers and Barracuda's.

Government Motors is a perfect example of how not to run a company.

GM killed off quite a few car decisions because they would be faster than the Corvette. Imagine if they didn't...

It wasn't so much the car was a failure, as these are obviously very collectible. It was just such an anomaly and an outside of the box idea for Buick, and the regular GN was a quick car in its day, but with a much cheaper and arguably better built Mustang LX, it was a drivers race. Both were low 14 second cars but the Mustang actually could corner and took to mods extremely well. The G body was loonng in the tooth and the last hurrah gnx was a 21 gun salute to see it off. Collectors knew it'd be valuable but the only real ace up its sleeve was being +/- 1 second quicker for a lot more money. Very antiquated design and the build quality left a lot to get desired. Quick, nice looking cars to be sure. But overhyped for what it actually delivered

I want someone to make a GPX. A blacked out GRAND PRIX with the gnx power plant. I love the buick, but the gp I'd marry.

Limited production numbers ?

They got squashed by BigDaddyGM... They didn't fail, they understood the assignment...too well.

Not a failure at all. They went out with a bang!

So exactly how is this a failure?

This video brings back some fond memories. My father owned a 1987 GN. Thanks!

The Monte Carlo in Tokyo Drift is my favorite in the series. As a old stock car racer i recognized all the mods done to it. Its about time some one gave this car its day in the sun.

it was my favorite car in that movie

First like for your effort

Bryan's minivan is the most underrated car.

I really like these underrated and not so well known cars.. I know some of them pretty well, but others I did not know well. You missed the Isuzu Piazza/Impulse... both 80's and early 90's models. The original designer was Giugiaro in 1981. I like the re-designed 1990=91 model.

Actual dream *spits blood*