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Originally Posted by Tman08
The picture shown wont be the car, but might have bits styled from it mixed with the Z (according to the article). The important thing I took from reading that was that Nissan is potentially working on a competitor, which helps the affordable sports car market. Whether its FWD or not, I don't know.
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This part of the article makes it seem definite that the car will be FWD.
"Internally known as the Mini-Z, the new sports car won’t be offered with a rear-wheel-drive system like the Silvia/240SX - that project was cancelled in late 2008 because of the financial crisis. Instead Nissan will use a front-wheel-drive system combined with 1.6-liter turbo-four from the Nissan Juke with power raised to about 200 HP."
Good catch on the styling bit, although if they're going to style this as a coupe instead of the hatch shown, you have to wonder how this is going to be different from the FWD Altima coupe. Looking at Nissan's lineup from a marketing standpoint, bringing a sporty FWD hatch to the market (which they don't currently have) makes more sense than developing a second FWD coupe which would cannibalize sales. I guess we'll see though, perhaps Nissan thinks there is space in its lineup for a FWD coupe smaller than the Altima.