NEW Nissan 240SX in the works

[shadoquad]

Originally Posted by KnwsAThngOr2AbutAThngOr2

According to Motor Trend's article the concept started out as a "hot-hatch", but is now a coupe (along the lines of the pic above).

Competition, in any segment, is a good thing.

Folks, chances are, the Nissan whatever will not actually look anything like this. Motor Trend draws these concept sketches based on their own imagination. I'd be very surprised if it did look like this.

[adprokid]

if they are going to make a hatchback, i think it should be a lightweight awd turbo and call it Pulsar gti-r, or just they should make a small rwd Silvia

[AJUSA.com]

Originally Posted by MiguelAE86

Nissan is not playing the heritage card. That's going to hurt them.
The FR-S/86 play the Japanese heritage card very, very well. I think this is one of the reasons this car is doing so well, apart from the high acclamations from almost every single magazine to get its hands on it.

Nissan will fluke with this juke/joke of a machine. "Silvia" is what should be ringing in their engineer's heads, not "Frankenstein Parts-bin Juke-baby".

/rant

Oh Miguel you need to apply to Nissan Design down here in SD please. You are dead on with the Silvia reference.

Light weight, turbo, rwd coupe for the younger buyers. That so hard?

[Pscylo]

Just send the Z to fat camp, and when it gets back call it the 240 ZSX

[Hippophobia]

Being that Nissan and Renault are one in the same I think they should revamp and release a new Clio V6 but stateside. I've always had a hard on for hot hatches. Especially V6 MR 250HP ones.

Who needs passengers? That's where my motor goes.

[sbxjap]

2nd rendering is better... but eh...

[fatoni]

Originally Posted by Acc

FWD < RWD

That's exactly why the frs is faster than the itr or turbo cobalt

[tripjammer]

I think this is not too bad for a Nissan....it all depends on how much it weights and if is AWD or RWD. If it is turbo and AWD and weighs less than 3000 pounds, it will be the poor mans GTR. That will work..if they can get the price less than $25K

There is a niche for a cheap $25k AWD coupe. This will differentiate itself from the Toyobaru twins.

[Zadkiel]

Originally Posted by hardscape5

I call a slight amount of BS. A. They used a damned auto-box BRZ and B. They never explained if they turned any of the electronic aids off.

Considering how everyone praises how progressive the handling and transitioning into oversteer is, I find it hard to believe that it's anegative like this guy is saying.

[shadoquad]

Friend of mine found this article. A far cry from the fwd hatch idea.

Sadly, I also don't see anything in here about dropping the price to the point of being more reasonable.

http://www.topspeed.com/cars/nissan/...-ar132433.html

Please note, the article is interspersed with pictures in an unusually annoying way, so scroll down for the whole thing.

[MiguelAE86]

Originally Posted by AJUSA.com

Oh Miguel you need to apply to Nissan Design down here in SD please. You are dead on with the Silvia reference.

Light weight, turbo, rwd coupe for the younger buyers. That so hard?

As a 17-year-old, that's mighty humbling

But yes, i completely think if Nissan played the heritage card, they would have people throwing money at them left and right. Hell, anything with the letters "...SX" at the end of it would make Nissan, and sports-car fans in general, get wildly moist.

[jurjurson]

so much hate in this thread.

[Caliban]

if Nissan decides to build RWD turbo sports coupe, it will be $27-32k range like the pricing of BRZ. Not FRS(GT86).

[AJUSA.com]

Originally Posted by MiguelAE86

As a 17-year-old, that's mighty humbling

But yes, i completely think if Nissan played the heritage card, they would have people throwing money at them left and right. Hell, anything with the letters "...SX" at the end of it would make Nissan, and sports-car fans in general, get wildly moist.

Car manufacturers need to listen to the youth more. And I dont mean another Kia Soul.