Digital NFT Nissan GT-R Sells For $2.85 Million

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I hate to say I told you so…

Everyone knows you can boil a frog in the pot if you just increase the temperature slowly over time. Fewer people seem to be aware that with crabs you don’t have to put the lid on the pot because they’ll pull each other back into the boiling water so nobody escapes their fate. These two analogies remind me of the irrational hate I received back in early August for pointing out there’s a movement to start getting enthusiasts away from collecting actual, real cars in favor of digital NFTs. Apparently, pointing out a possibility makes one “a (sic) idiot” as one person so ironically shared.

Now the news has hit that an NFT version of a Nissan GT-R sold for a whopping $2,850,660 CAD. That’s over ten times what a real R35 would set you back. Take a moment to process that: someone paid that kind of money for a Photoshopped representation of Godzilla, and it’s not even that good of a picture!

To be fair, Nissan Canada pumped up the sale of this NFT by saying it would any amount over reserve to charity. That means some charitable organization is getting $2,500,000 CAD so you could argue it was all for the children or a good cause or whatever makes you feel better. Still, this is a clear signal that the push for NFT collecting instead of acquiring real cars is becoming, well… real.