With the announcement that the new GT-R Special Edition would be sold with a Midnight Opal paint scheme, I need to set the record straight for anyone who doesn't know the importance of purple ...

But within that subset of highly-coveted Nissans is an even rarer group — the Midnight Purple cars. And one of them recently hit Bring a Trailer. Only 546 R34 GT-Rs were finished in either ...

My new favorite in this category is the Grade from GT. For the past couple of weeks ... composite glass fiber and carbon seat stays, a triple-triangle design, and a taller head tube.