The Nissan GT-R NISMO 400R hit Japan's roads in 1997, built to celebrate the brand's success in Le Mans with the R33 GT-R. But unlike its Le Mans counterpart, this one was fully street legal.

but Nissan and Nismo managed to deliver. But while the "standard" R33 Skyline GT-R was terrific, Nismo introduced an even more impressive version in 1997. Dubbed 400R, the limited edition Nismo ...

Just 44 examples of the Nissan Skyline GT-R Nismo 400R were hand-built at Nismo's Omori ... An extensive re-working of the R33 GT-R, Nismo left no stone unturned in its quest to build the ultimate ...

Evo has taken the wheel of the extremely rare Nissan Skyline GT-R Nismo 400R. Sure, our 702-horsepower JGTC R34 was awesome, but if we're talking about road-going Skylines, the 400R was hard to beat.

First of the breed officially imported into the UK, the Nissan Skyline GT ... The ultimate R33, bar the one-off homologation GT-R LM, was the Nismo 400R of which 44 were built.