. There is this 1994 R32 GT-R, there is a 1990 Nissan Pulsar GTi-R Nismo , and there is a 1996 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IV GSR. I wanted to make a point, or do something of a retrospective. I wanted to review the glory years of all-wheel-drive performance cars from Japan, cars that we coveted from afar in the United States. These cars were never sold here, and we had to wait 25 years for them to become legal for import. Many have not waited.
Nissan’s run at world-beating all-wheel-drive didn’t start with the GT-R, it started with a concept car in the mid-Eighties, the Nissan MID4. Two versions were designed and built, both running and driving cars, as ready for production as anything else. These were mid-engine sports cars with all-wheel drive, the first iteration of what Nissan called ATTESA. This was an electronically-controlled system, not so different in concept from what Porsche was developing at the same time for the 959.
If I am being abundantly honest, this GTi-R Nismo was somewhat unremarkable if you just take a slightly different look at it. Though it is a road-legal car and completely spectacular in that context, after driving it for a short while you hit another point. This is just a rally car. It is a stripped and caged rally car, and drives just like pretty much any other stripped and caged rally car, all of which are also by definition road-legal.
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