Order a GTI-R with Nismo parts a dealer couldn't fit, and Nissan shipped your car to Autech for factory installation instead — only 21 of these Nismo-built GTI-Rs ever left the line.
Median 63 hp across 153 similar cars
Lead trim: Sunny GTI-R SR20DET 2.0 L turbo AWD (Europe, 220 PS) · up to 227 hp
Nissan Pulsar GTI-R RNN14RNN14 · 1990–1994
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FactOrder a GTI-R with Nismo parts a dealer couldn't fit, and Nissan shipped your car to Autech for factory installation instead — only 21 of these Nismo-built GTI-Rs ever left the line.
The three-door N14 homologation special, built to enter the WRC under Group A: a turbocharged 2.0 L SR20DET (a unique variant coded 54C) with ATTESA all-wheel drive, a large rear wing and a bonnet scoop, sold in Japan as the Pulsar (E-RNN14) and in Europe as the Sunny GTI-R (EGNN14). Built in Japan from August 1990 to November 1994; the Sunny GTI-R was produced February 1992 to October 1993. It took a claimed 5.4 s to 100 km/h, 13.5 s over the standing quarter mile and a claimed top speed of 232 km/h. Nissan needed 5,000 built (500 homologation models); production reached 13,842 Pulsars (13,131 GTI-RA, 701 GTI-RB) plus 771 Sunnys (668 left-hand drive, 103 right-hand drive). The GTI-RA was the fully equipped road car (¥2,270,000, with air conditioning, power windows and ABS); the stripped GTI-RB was 30 kg lighter for Group N; 21 GTI-R NISMO cars were built at ¥3,140,000. Nissan Motorsport Europe ran it in 1991 and 1992 but it never won a Group A WRC rally, though it took first and second in the 1992 Group N drivers' cup.
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Trims & Figures
3 published trims in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GTI-RA SR20DET 2.0 L turbo AWD (Japan, 230 PS) | 1990–1994 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 227 hp | 210 lb-ft | — | AWD | — | — |
| GTI-RB SR20DET 2.0 L turbo AWD (Japan, 230 PS, 1,190 kg) | 1990–1994 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 227 hp | 210 lb-ft | — | AWD | — | — |
| Sunny GTI-R SR20DET 2.0 L turbo AWD (Europe, 220 PS) | 1992–1993 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 217 hp | 197 lb-ft | — | AWD | — | — |
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The C13 was the first Pulsar ever officially sold in mainland Europe. Nissan had always used the Cherry, Sunny and Almera names there instead.
Order a GTI-R with Nismo parts a dealer couldn't fit, and Nissan shipped your car to Autech for factory installation instead — only 21 of these Nismo-built GTI-Rs ever left the line.
A bitter falling-out between Nissan and its UK importer meant this exact car was sold in Britain under two different names at once — as a Pulsar from one distributor and a Sunny from Nissan's own new outfit.
A limited-run N13 Pulsar variant ran three viscous couplings for its four-wheel drive — one per axle plus a centre unit — nearly the same layout Nissan launched in the larger Bluebird soon after as "Attesa."
In May 1983, some Pulsars switched from fender-mounted mirrors to door mirrors — a style Japanese law had only just begun to allow, and Nissan grabbed the change before any other Japanese maker did.
This Pulsar's unusually long nose wasn't styling for its own sake — Nissan engineered the space for a rear-wheel-drive version aimed at developing markets that was never actually built.
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