Edmunds has been busy at the LA AutoShow today chasing Nissan executives around until someone gave them a straight answer. So Nissan is almost certainly leaving the fabled Nissan GT-R’s launch-control out of the series II (MY10) Nissan GT-R in the US market.

This correlates with the rumours we’ve already been hearing about it not being offered at all on the Australian market Nissan GT-R come 2009.

As for other markets? Well we’ve seen the complete official list of changes for the series II Nissan GT-R in the Japanese market now and cannot find any reference to this change in that document but we wouldn’t at all be surprised to find it’s a global change when the production line starts back up in the near future.

Big deal or not? When the standard car without launch control is still able to manage a sub 4 second 0-60mph and 11 second 1/4 ET’s in the hands of private owners I don’t see this as such a big loss.

Source: Edmunds Inside Line