Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 Base [Gran Turismo 5 Slideshow]

Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 Base [Gran Turismo 5 Slideshow]

GT5 2006 Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 Base 2006

Here's a 2006 Mine's BNR34 Skyline GT-R N1 Base in my GT5 photos with no post-PS3 editing as always on this blog.

Pictured in White with Mine's and other logos and parked at Siena - Piazza del Campo again.

Mine's is a tuning firm based in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. 

Mine's was started by Tsuzo Niikura in 1985.

Mine's website is here (link).

Mine's focuses on tuning engines, sometime suspensions but doing very little tuning to the car body or interiors and using only minimum aero parts so as to preserve the "road-car" characteristics of their tuned vehicles.

GT5 2004 Blitz ER34 D1 Spec

Here is another Blitz as rendered in GT5.

Yesterday we had this 2007 Blitz Dunlop ER34 Skyline but today's Blitz is the earlier 2004 Blitz ER34 D1 Spec. And these two Blitz tuned cars are the only two in each of GT5 and GT6.

Unfortunately, the 2004 Blitz is only a standard car in GT5 so no photo travel or high-res pictures.

Here it is in on-track photos.

Way I understand it from the GT5 description, Blitz wanted to compete in the All-Japan D1 Grand Prix, which is a major drifting competition, but for some reason they wanted to do it using a 4-door car as opposed to the sportier choices of 2-door coupes and such like. 

First, they used a regular road car but failed to achieve success. 

Next, they built this 2004 Blitz ER34 using the Nissan ER34 Skyline as a base car but modified and tuned as regards every part of it and found success. Later they had even more success with the successor car - the 2007 Blitz Dunlop ER34 Skyline.

GT5 2007 Blitz Dunlop ER34 Skyline

Today is another (heavily) tuned car, a 2007 Blitz Dunlop ER34 Skyline based on the Nissan Skyline ER 34.

The Blitz Dunlop ER 34 Skyline was built by Blitz, a Japan-based car tuner, unusually choosing a 4-door Nissan Skyline ER 34 saloon as the base car.

I believe this is the Blitz Japan website.

The Blitz Skyline ER 34 competed in D1 Grand Prix (all-Japan Professional Drift Competition) piloted by Ken "Nomuken" Nomura.

This 2007 model (pictured) had a major engine upgrade producing 572 BHP.

 

I think Nomuken managed to win something in it, 4 doors and all.