Nissan GT-R nearly sold out

...with almost 75 per cent of this year's allocation already sold.

"The order book is sitting at about 130-140 ... and I am confident that all 190 cars available to us for this year will find homes," Nissan Australia boss Dan Thompson says.

Priced from $148,800, the GT-R is available through 11 Nissan high performance centres in the capital cities.

However, Thompson concedes that there is still some fine-tuning to be done on how the high-tech supercar will be serviced. "This is a whole new ball game for us ... it is a great experience and there are some things we are still working through."

Key among those is the complex servicing schedule demanded by the car's hand-built bi-turbo 3.8-litre V6. At launch in Japan Nissan was promising a free three-year premium performance program which includes specialised racing car-style servicing with full chassis and suspension balance as well as a precision engine tune and balance.

"We have not made a final decision on how servicing will be handled in Australia but it will be at a standard commensurate with the car," he says. "To have the GT-R is a very exciting thing ... it is a supercar and that is something none of our traditional competitors have in their model ranges."

It seems certain that Nissan Australia will not offer the Ultimate Metal Silver finish which highlights the range in Japan.

Ultimate Silver requires a seven-coat treatment with a base coat, primer, a basic silver colour, a clear coat, the ultimate silver with higher metal content and brightness index and then two more clear coats.

Nissan paint engineers concede damage to the finish could not be touched up or even totally resprayed at any normal paint shop.