SILVIA 200SX有望重新...

leo55555 · 發表於 2012-4-13 10:29:19

Nissan design boss Shiro Nakamura has hinted that its 200SX/Silvia model could be reborn. In an interview with Australia's Drive magazine, Nakamura-san has said that Nissan is looking at downsizing its sports car offering. "I much prefer smaller sports car," says Nakamura. "It is the time to look at that [smaller engines]. With 370Z, we still don't know next generation will have a larger or smaller engine."

Toyobaru hype could prompt Nissan to playThat could of course simply mean that Nissan is reacting to the pressure felt by car companies globally to reduce the size and increase the efficiency of their models, and that the successor to the 370Z will be a smaller-engined car. But it could also mean a revival of the 200SX idea - a hot-hatch rivalling rear-drive coupe.
The feverish acclaim heaped upon the Toyota GT 86/Subaru BRZ surely means other companies want a slice of that potentially burgeoning market. And Nissan would be more keen than most - with the 200SX/Silvia it had the small, fun-to-drive coupe pretty much to itself for years (if you exclude the MR2), but left that particular market segment to lie fallow in the early noughties as it pushed upmarket with the 370Z.

So what chance a re-born 200SX? "If there is a market, we will do it," Nakamura has told Drive. But we'll probably have to wait a while yet, given the two-year gap between concept and reality for the Toyota GT 86. Although if that car and its Subaru sister sell as well as seems likely you can be pretty sure that Nissan's big cheeses will be shuffling the idea of a small RWD coupe much further up their list of priorites...