- Nissan teases an all-new Skyline.
- It has spherical taillights and ‘Skyline’ script on the rear fender.
- It can spawn an Infiniti model in the US.
Nissan has already confirmed that it’s creating a brand new Skyline outdoors of the US. It’s anticipated to debut quickly, and the automaker is offering our first take a look at the upcoming sport sedan.
The automotive has vertical entrance lighting parts and an angular face. Final 12 months, Alfonso Albaisa, Nissan’s international design director, stated that the Skyline can be “impressed by the previous,” however not a “retro-styling train.”
That inspiration contains conserving the spherical taillights, which seem to protrude from the rear fascia within the teaser picture. It additionally reveals the “Skyline” script on the rear fender. Albaisa added that the automotive’s design can be “aggressive and trendy, with proportions that recall the unique.”
Photograph by: Nissan
Whereas Nissan won’t promote the brand new Skyline in America, an Infiniti performance sedan based mostly on the identical platform is anticipated to be on sale in the US. It may put on the Q50 or Q60 badge and have distinctive front- and rear-end styling.
The Nissan sedan is anticipated to function a tuned model of the automaker’s twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V-6 engine. It produces 420 horsepower within the Z Nismo however is anticipated to make as a lot as 450 hp within the Infiniti, which is able to energy the rear wheels and have a handbook transmission. The automotive will supposedly slot between the Z and the GT-R.
Motor1’s Take: Our first take a look at Nissan’s new Skyline has us excited for the mannequin. It definitely seems like it’ll have the facility and platform that fanatics need—a rear-wheel-drive, manual-equipped sport sedan—with stable styling that ushers the icon into a brand new period.
