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May 5, 2008

New Nissan Silvia

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Nissan is planning to bring back an affordable RWD coupe and beat the joint Toyota/Subaru effort to the showrooms by a good six months. Based on the next Z-car platform, this new Silvia is expected to powered by a NA 2.0 liter, with possible 1.6 or 1.8 turbo variants. More at 7tune.com.

New Nissan Silvia

Comments

Taylor
Sep 22, 2008 at 4:12 am

the reason they have this, is duh…. not an affordable, historic, or just overall great RWD out there. seriously, who can afford a 350? anyone? yeah, anyone reading this most likely cant. didnt think so… moving on… if this thing is being sold around the speculated 21 to 24 K, a huge HUGE amount of tuning enthusiasts would buy this like hot cakes. and who cares about the looks? if anything, someone out there will pick up like, 4 of these, and then import an S15, and build up a conversion kit and then SHIZZAM! modern technology meets history that we all know and love.

Taylor
Sep 22, 2008 at 4:12 am

the reason they have this, is duh…. not an affordable, historic, or just overall great RWD out there. seriously, who can afford a 350? anyone? yeah, anyone reading this most likely cant. didnt think so… moving on… if this thing is being sold around the speculated 21 to 24 K, a huge HUGE amount of tuning enthusiasts would buy this like hot cakes. and who cares about the looks? if anything, someone out there will pick up like, 4 of these, and then import an S15, and build up a conversion kit and then SHIZZAM! modern technology meets history that we all know and love.

samtak
Jun 9, 2008 at 3:52 am

This car looks so bland! It resembles none of the past Silvias. What happend to the appealing 1998 S15 head lights. Again, let me reemphasize, IT LOOKS NOTHING LIKE A SILVIA!

Julian
May 9, 2008 at 3:55 am

Well, I think this car will be a huge hit, and I’m kind of excited about it, I hope to see this car survive emissions to make its way into america :D !

jag240
May 8, 2008 at 10:35 pm

Im buying one ;D

7urtle
May 8, 2008 at 5:17 pm

i like this. if you people are wondering why this? its because not everyone can afford a 350z and the altima is fwd.they did it before 300z and 240sx “a 6 and a 4banger”. i take it as long as they dont make it look like a 350,g35.skyline

Metal
May 8, 2008 at 1:48 am

I like the fender vents.

Metal
May 8, 2008 at 1:47 am

I like the fender vents.

Eric
May 6, 2008 at 3:59 pm

Aside from your opinions I think I understand why NISSAN would produce this for america! All you hard-core IMPORT tuner’s will now have an awesome platform to start modding at a price you can continue to mod with. Nissan has to compete with TOYOTA’s side (SCION). this is an actual tuner where as SCION is just a little vehicle with flashing lights! I think the car is cool and this coming from a LUXURY car owner! now all our 350Z, altima coupe, G35 owners can find some common ground and have fun with these NISSAN based coupes and go NISMO crazy! Shit I think I might get one they look like a cool little car for around town!

Anonymous
May 6, 2008 at 6:13 am

i dont get the point for this. They have the 350z and the 2 door altima for sports coupe…why a third?

Rebs76
May 6, 2008 at 5:53 am

The car doesn’t look bad and it’s a good platform to tune. Too bad it’s not an AWD. Still, I kinda like it.

Rebs76
May 6, 2008 at 5:52 am

The car doesn’t look bad and it’s a good platform to tune. Too bad it’s not an AWD. Still, I kinda like it.

pontigt99
May 6, 2008 at 2:48 am

That car looks gay compared to the old one

Millertalon
May 6, 2008 at 1:36 am

WTH happen!?!

Looks like a Super Sentra of a Special Edition Maxima of some kind.

SO MUCH FOR ORIGINALITY! lol.

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