Imagine the early '90s. Nissan has just released one
of the finest sports cars ever, the latest edition of its
popular
Z-Car, named 300ZX. Mazda introduces its beautiful, rotary-engined
RX-7, while Mitsubishi amazes the world with its
technology-laden, but heavy
Supra Twin-Turbo and Toyota conquers the US-market with its still fabulous
3000GT.
Half a decade later, the RX-7 and 300ZX are gone. A year
or two to go, and the 3000GT and Supra will have vanished,
too! The only car left to enlighten the Japanese enthusiast's
heart is the brilliant, but overly expensive
Acura NSX, while the big companies bore us to death with a flood
of their utterly reliable and oh so exciting
Camrys,
Accords and whatever else they are called. Great! Even better still,
considering that on the other side of the pacific just these
manufacturers release one enthusiast's dream after the other.
Does America want those Skylines, Type-Rs, Evos and WRXs?
Well, at least not from a manufacturers' point of view.
Now, here we are in Spring 2002. Subaru finally considers
American consumers worthy of the
WRX, Mitsubishi is about to sell its
EVO VIII and Mazda plans to release the rotary-engined RX8 quite
soon. Only Toyota seems to miss the trend of
time - no
Supra replacement in sight.
But another Japanese player is more than willing to fill
this gap. Throughout the last few years, Nissan and its
luxury-division Infiniti have gathered the attention at
several auto-shows around the globe with their Z-Car and
XVL Concepts. Both cars are based on the same platform,
featuring a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout, and are
intended to replace Nissan's all-time legends; the Z-Car
and the Skyline. While the Z-Car should be an old fellow
for most Americans, the Skyline might be more of a mystery
to most. Famous especially for the several racing victories
and championship-titles of its legendary GT-R version around
the globe, the Skyline has always primarily been a sports-sedan,
and in its latest iteration proves to be better than ever.
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Time then for Nissan to give in to the begging and pleading
of its American consumers, and ship the Skyline to the other
side of the Pacific. Introducing the G35, Infiniti finally
offers the sedan version of Nissan's flagship in Northern
America, where it is to go head-to-head with the
BMW 3-Series,
Lexus IS 300 and
Audi A4 in the highly contested near-luxury segment.
