Equipment
2.0-liter RB20 six, automatic, rear-wheel drive, HICAS four-wheel steering.
Condition
Presents well, shows no serious mods or signs of abuse, and has just 50,000 km (about 31K miles).
Market commentary
While the flagship GT-R models are the most exciting and desirable for American gearheads, “Skyline” has a much wider connotation in the cars’ home country of Japan, where the first Skylines were built by Prince Motor Company way back in the 1950s. After Prince merged with Nissan in the 1960s, the cars wore a Nissan badge, and over the years Skylines have been everything from commercial wagons and commuter sedans to the race cars and tuner favorites that we know and love. This R31 (technically the 7th generation of Skyline) was purchased by the seller in Japan, and reportedly spent some time in Dubai before being imported to Canada, where it is currently located. A GTS-X model, it has a 2.0-liter RB20 version of the RB engine as well as the HICAS rear-wheel steering, front and rear spoilers and two-tone gray cloth sport seats. On the one hand, snagging an interesting JDM coupe for $7K seems like a great move. On the other hand, anybody who owns this car is going to have to have a lot of conversations that go like this: “Yeah it’s a Skyline! No, not that Skyline. No, not that one either. No it’s not a GT-R, it’s a GTS-X. And it’s an automatic. It is a Skyline, though.” But no matter the asterisks, it’s hard to argue with this price.