As the company responsible for the GT-R supercar we’d long reckoned Nissan was capable – and needed – a high-performance four-door sedan.
Seems the Japanese giant was thinking along similar lines and – boom! – this ‘Sports Sedan Concept’ was its star at the Detroit Auto Show yesterday.
Said to be a design study pointing to the next generation of Nissan sedans, the ‘Sport Sedan Concept’ was created at Nissan’s Southern California design studio in La Jolla (just north of San Diego) and joins last years’ ‘Nissan Resonance’ and ‘Friend-ME’ concepts in debuting Nissan’s new signature design cues – the ‘V-Motion’ front aspect, ‘floating’ roof and boomerang shaped headlights and tail-lights.
Of course the ‘Sports Sedan Concept’ encases all this in a high-performance execution with low, wide proportions, a lowered bonnet line, 21-inch alloy wheels and ground-hugging stature. The front fascia is deeply scooped, the windscreen sloped and the chrome grille is a somewhat dramatic execution.
Paintwork is ‘Strad Amber’ – an odd choice from the world of classic violins…the link to high-performance sedans being?
Inside is some luxury with diamond-shaped quilted leather seats, high-contrast colours and metallic accents.
Power? Well this is a Nissan so of course it’s got a rumbling 224kW 3.5-litre V6 which drives the fornt wheels via a sport-tuned Xtronic CVT.
