New Nissan Silvia

Well we’re back after an unex­pected depar­ture time, in time no less for news of a new Silvia.

Will Nis­san deliver a coupe, with huge tun­ing poten­tial to the masses? Appar­ently yes. There’s a wait, with both the CEO of Nis­san Car­los Ghosn and Nissan’s COO Toshiyuki Shiga, claim­ing a 2010 release with a price in the region 2,000,000~2,500,000 JPY. Not much else is known, past it might have a Renault engine (Please, please, God no.), will be based on a mod­i­fied Z plat­form, and will be an FR Sports Coupe

Right, it’s soap­box time. In rela­tion to the artists impres­sion above (We coloured it orange) –if this is what we’ve got to look for­ward to, then we have to say an emphatic “GTFO” to the Nissan/​Renault styl­ists. The Sil­via evokes mem­o­ries of a light, capa­ble, highly tun­able and emo­tive, work­ing man’s sports car. It can not be a rehash on the 350z, or staid G35 styling direc­tion, them­selves dif­fer­ent cars in their own right.

The Sil­via needs to be some­thing that cap­tures the eye 7 years later, or fur­ther into the future. The trend for high rake door lines? No. Con­fus­ing grille designs? No. Com­plex head­lights. No. Renault-​​esque Euro trend styling cues? NO. It needs to be Japan­ese. It needs to be an evo­lu­tion of the last gen­er­a­tion model, the S15. It must be a 4 banger turbo, must be RWD, and must han­dle like it’s on rails.

For us, noth­ing else will do.

[Sources: Rocket Punch, Auto­blog]