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Quote (AceInHole @ April 04 2002,12:14)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">IMO, continuing the SR would be nissan's worst mistake..... if anything, take the G35 coupe and badge it as a Nissan, possibly a 2 door altima or a 250sx (although the G35 coupe tails are just plain sick IMO). Obviously it would get the QR25, maybe with the VQ35 as an upgrade (as in the Alty). Sharing platforms/ powerplants will keep costs down, and thus turn more profit.
The G35 is basically the next Skyline, in coupe or sedan form (note how the Skyline has always had a sedan form itself, even a few high performance sedan versions). As previously stated (and seemingly completely unread) the GTR is now going to be its own car.</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
I am soo with you on that. Nissan can't keep makeing the same old mistakes. Holding on to a power plant or chassis for the sake of it's cult status alone is never a good idea.
If nissan still thinks there is a niche for a budget sports coupe, the s16 then it will most certanly be built on the XVL chassis. As for a powerplant who knows? the SR and RB are both dated. This begs the question why bother in the first place? This would make 4 cars built on the same chassis.
The new Z
The new Skyline / G35
The pending GTR
The rumored new Silvia?
This gets back to the heart of over segmenting it's market share. The whole point of migrating to a single chassis for these cars in the first place. THere is not point in robbing peter to pay Paul. In essence a new S car would do just that.
If they price it lower than the Z they won't make any money, or it will be a dog. Make it faster and more $$$ and they are competing with them selves. What is the point?</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
AMEN <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
'> I'll only add: Have you seen the low price of the base model 350z? IIRC, $27,000!!!
The window sticker from my car was $24K. Add 7 years and only $3,000? But wait, that's for a Z! Why bother with the "S" car? It either needs to swim DOWNstream (as in base model RSX/Civic) or disappear. (and the new SE-R seems to already occupy that niche - albeit with 4 doors). Either way, it doesn't involve a badass turbo or large displacement sports motor. I think the reality is that Nissan woke up and smelled the black ink <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='
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