Nissan will market from 2007 a new model of its flagship sports car, the GTR, as “a global car,” president Carlos Ghosn said on Wednesday at a round-table meeting with the media, according to Dow Jones.

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It will be the first time for Nissan to market the model globally andGhosn said the company will launch the model in markets including the US, Europe and Japan, the report added.


The new GTR is expected to be the successor to the Skyline GTR model, which was launched in January 1998 and [theoretically] available only in Japan. Nissan stopped marketing that model in August 2002, Dow Jones said, noting that Ghosn declined to provide any sales targets for the new model.

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