Nissan has thrown up a teaser “microsite” for the upcoming GT-R, the successor to the famous Skyline GT-R line. It’s still listed as the “GT-R Proto”—that means “prototype”—but they’ve been showing off that design for so long I can’t imagine the production car will look terribly different. What is new is the price: the Nissan GT-R will start at around $68k in Japan.

Everything is subject to change, spec-wise, but the GT-R will likely see another twin-turbo-driven V-6 under the bonnet, all wheel drive, and a seven-speed paddle shifter. (Here’s hoping a traditional manual is available so that I may lust after that model with no intention to ever buy it.)

(Potentially-interesting-but-inaccurate GT-R trivia: I’ve always heard two reasons about why the Skyline never made it to America. The first was that the way the turbos fit onto the engine made it difficult to switch the steering wheel from the right to the left. [That always seemed unlikely to me.] The other was that Nissan had two monolithic design groups in house, one aligned with the Z and one aligned with the GT-R, but with the former given more clout within the company due to the Z’s legacy, despite the GT-R’s greater performance. Warning: This is all hearsay!)

GT-R Microsite [GTRNissan.com via Autopia]