600 times stronger-using reinforced Kevlar steel alloy art technology and space glue (as to what the original ones must have made of plasticine and cardboard-NCAP rating:0.

They are also 20 times faster due to the mysterious interaction of computer chips, spinning metal bits and rapid Astro-boy, Ninga blast, fuel injection.

Braking has come a long way from the principle of direct ratio of push harder to stopping distance. Power boosters and ABS-space age dreams.

Dazzling dashboards more sparkly than a Christmas tree. Neither mysterious, invisible bags which could jump out of dashboards in nano-seconds.

However, we have got to keep up here with technology and purpose.

So now the look of the future came out of its lair.

The R32 GTR needed to be driven with some considerable skill. You could end up in a lot of expensive trouble if a mistake were made, say on a corner. Nowadays you don’t even have to think about changing gears as the car does it for you. It is like being in a videogame-except, if wipe-out ever does occur, the reset is costly to pocket and pride.

Look up a Youtube clip of the R32 Nissan Skyline GTR race-car at the 1990 Bathurst 1000 in 1990. In car cameras showed how amazing this car was. Within 2 laps it was closing in on the race leaders, including the Messiah of Australian racing, Brock.

It was only a technical problem which defeated the car. In 1991 and 1992, it was a different situation. The all-conquering GTR made its mark with comprehensive victories over the, supposedly, invincible V8’s. Not happy Jan, were the Holden and Ford people. And we all know what spoilt grapes and spilt milk lead to.

Japan has produced something which impressed the world with just with its sheer audacity

And finesse of class.