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Apr 04, 2020 1 min, 9 secs
If you love the Nissan GT-R, then you must by extension love Hiroshi Tamura.

The man's formal title at Nissan is GT-R chief product specialist, but most just call him "Mr.

His role, straddling corporate interests and enthusiast desires, makes him the perfect person to talk to about what GT-R means today and what's coming next.

Daikoku is a sort of urban amphitheater where tuned cars are often heard long before they're seen, adding a heraldic importance to exhaust selection.

In the car, with its many interior LEDs flipped on for the cameras, Tamura-san was characteristically open about his thoughts on all things GT-R.

He told me he's "very happy" to see the R32 now getting a sort of second coming thanks to its newfound legality in the US, but he said it's not universally good news.

It makes him sad whenever he sees a GT-R not getting treated well?

There he's necessarily more coy, but Tamura-san did express a sort of extreme openness to new technologies?

But he went on to tell me that a key aspect of the GT-R is relative affordability, and so any technological developments must not shift the value dynamic.

But, regardless of what's to come, Tamura-san says one thing will never change about the GT-R: an emotional connection to the driver

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