Nissan P35

The Nissan P35 was a planned Group C car built by Nissan Motors for competition in the World Sportscar Championship. Nissan Performance Technology Inc., the company's North American motorsports arm that had raced as Electramotive and run the IMSA GT program, developed it, and the cars were meant to be finished by the middle of 1992 to start racing in 1993. Economic troubles at Nissan led to the cancellation of the project soon after testing of the first cars began, so the P35s never raced, and three chassis were built for testing. Yoshi Suzuka and Trevor Harris designed it, with the water radiator in the nose and the engine inlet above the cockpit. Nismo developed an all-new 3499 cc V12 called the VRT35, claimed to make 630 horsepower and to reach nearly 12000 rpm. Nismo also used the P35 molds to create the carbon fibre NP35, which was allowed to race only once before it too was cancelled.