Nissan North America is bringing a car smaller than the Sentra to its U.S. lineup within the next two years. Its latest concept for such as car draws a bead on Toyota’s Scion lineup.
Nissan’s Sport Concept hatchback is marked by wide body flares over 20-inch wheels, a rear spoiler and a sloping, angled hood. The concept was shown Thursday night at Nissan’s new design studio in suburban Detroit -- even though the vehicle was created at the automaker’s design studio in Atsugi, Japan. The concept gets wide exposure next week during the New York auto show.
The concept, which has some resemblance to the Nissan Tiida sedan sold in Japan, is based on the automaker’s B-segment platform. Yet Nissan says it was designed to comfortably fit four passengers.
The concept measures 171.3 inches from bumper to bumper. That puts it within a couple of inches of the Scion tC coupe, and 6 inches shorter than the current Sentra. But the concept’s 102.4-inch wheelbase tops the Sentra’s wheelbase by nearly 3 inches.
Inside, each passenger gets their own seat with large side bolsters, raised center section in the seat bottom and integrated, four-point seatbelts. The stereo system includes a large speaker and subwoofer mounted in the rear parcel shelf.
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I like the looks minus the 20" wheels. That's just ridiculous.
-John
I like it. Would like even more if they made it RWD.
YEAH I WENT PREMIUM. SO BITE ME!
If they would chop the top down just a wee bit more I could dig it. That is the only thing that is turning me away from it. It does like cool though.
Have a good one,
Justin
not bad for a hatchback, and 2 doors i like that.
Mini murano is right.
Small overhangs are great for handling, i hope it's light too, that would be sweet.
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i wonder whats gonna be under the hood. turbo 2.5 would be nice.
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i wonder whats gonna be under the hood. turbo 2.5 would be nice.
I was thinking that, too. They have to have something to back up its looks. But will probably only have a 1.8 or 2.0 or something weak like that.
-John
It better be packing some serious power with 20" wheels on there.
If it's got anything below 150 HP, it should get laughed at for having huge feet.
I think it looks good on 20's, I hate when people have small wheels on cars with big wheel wells. I see a lot of j-body's on this site with small wheels on there car. To me thats just looks gay and is a waste of money.
But this is all just my Opinion on things
omg
that is the hawtness
now if nissan can solve their recent reliability/recall issues, i might wait for that and skip the mazda 3... or not
wow out of all the new concept cars that are gonna go into production i consider this the best, way better then the new civic si imho
I really like that! hope it has more than 100hp....lol
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I love how it looks. Is the stereo on the left side on that pic?? if so thats awesome
i dont think those are 20's
could be but doesnt really look it
id say 18's
I like it -- it reminds me of a stealth bomber.
... and those rims remind me of a set of Ace Fusion's.
I actually like those rims; I wouldn't mind a set of 18s
or 19s for my Jeep (but I would never put dubs on an
xj -- that's sacrilege punishable by death haha)
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