The Ultimate Nissan

[C-ZETA]

To me, the Maxima has always been the best overall car they've built. Style, performance... The whole "4DSC" mentality. Too bad its been thrown away recently.

You think that? That's arguably the worst car that Nissan have made to me. It looks incredibly heavy.

 

[Omnis]

Nissan Silvia Turbo Super Silhouette

The car that inspired generations of Bosozoku, absolutely. 👍

The best Nissan truck is hands-down the Patrol:

 

[TVC]

It's got to be the R32 Skyline GT-R. The first Nissan that really make people sit up and take Nissan seriously as a performance car manufacturer outside of Japan.

Same for me. I would have to say the R35 or 370z are the worst. They are the fastest cars they have made but neither one looks great and neither one is really all that great...

 

[Jim Prower]

Loooooneeeeeeelyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I will continue to like the R35, no matter what. :<

 

[NISM0_SKYLINE]

Yes the S12 is nice but the R31 takes it. For me atleast

The GT-R 500

Colin's Dakar Nissan isn't to bad either

 

[Horde_R35]

Ok my baby Mines BNR34 is one of the fastest and the great thing is a street legal car:tup: with race car performances!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42KwIMakoaE&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXloFjDREfg&feature=related

 

[YSSMAN]

You think that? That's arguably the worst car that Nissan have made to me. It looks incredibly heavy.

I don't think weight should declassify it as a rational choice. In general, the Maxima defined Nissan with the majority of people. Yeah, the Z was the big poster child car, but it was the Maxima that most people went after.

My Grandfather, as best as I can recall, owned six of them throughout the '80s and '90s, the last two (a '98 and '00 respectively, as I recall) were wonderful cars. Nice to ride in, nice to push hard, and ultimately a great value for the money. Honestly, because it isn't an outrageous high performance car, and ultimately effects more people on a much wider basis, its easily the best car they've built.

 

[JCE]

+1 Brad. The Maximas were what defined Nissan in the 90's and early 2000's. I owned a 95 SE and 96 GLE. They are to this day one of my favorite cars ever. Comfy, quick, sporty and can do just about anything. Oh, and they are reliable.

 

[CyborgGT]

R32 GT-R for me as well. Great performance, and looks amazing.

The R35 GT-R is in a very close second. Contrary what a lot of people say, I love its looks. Too bad the SpecV's stripping the interior, or I'd put that ahead of the base model - practicality's important.

 

[Clark]

A choice of three for me.

Nissan Skline R34 GTR Z-Tune

Calsonic Group A R32

Nissan GT1 GT-R (Gigawave Motorsport)

I love the Mine's R34 aswell.

 

[niky]

Bring out the rice, boys:

B13 SE-R: high-revving, sophisticated twin-cam aluminum engine, LSD, ultra-light body, wonderful nimbleness. It could have been Nissan's Golf, but sadly, wasn't.

It was a car that could have had the same cult status as the Honda Civic, but which just never got its due... I've gone through six Sentras, but none was as sweet as my B13.

 

[Jay]

Calsonic Group A R32

Gibson motorsports Group A R32 was faster (Aussie tuning know how )

Another nice pic too big to post
http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/post-a141565-

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Gibson motorsports Group A R32 was faster (Aussie tuning know how )

Yep. And from what I read, Gibson motorsport were invited to the Fuji 1000, but Nismo wouldn't let them because they didn't want to be shown up.

 

[Clark]

Faster but it doesn't have the Calsonic livery gracing it's body, that finishes it off perfectly.

 

[nk4e]

Bring out the rice, boys:

B13 SE-R: high-revving, sophisticated twin-cam aluminum engine, LSD, ultra-light body, wonderful nimbleness. It could have been Nissan's Golf, but sadly, wasn't.

It was a car that could have had the same cult status as the Honda Civic, but which just never got its due... I've gone through six Sentras, but none was as sweet as my B13.

Didn't that contain the first SR20? Other than the 240sx's.

 

[Jay]

240SX never got the SR20

 

[nk4e]

Really?

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Really?

Really. The 240SX had the KA24, while the 180SX and Silvia of the same generation which were sold, pretty much, everywhere else got the SR20.

 

[nk4e]

We also got the CA18 in replaced of the KA24.

 

[Leonidae]

Oh yes, that wee little inline 6 monster that could trounce anything rest of the world threw at it, be it 911, M3 etc etc.. I heard that some Australians still haven't gotten over it

 

[Jay]

Really?

You didn't say S13/S14, you said 240SX, which has KA24's. I've driven plenty of SR S13/S14's (and a nissanslivia.com member, aussie forum).

 

[niky]

Really?

240SX = 2.4 liter KA24... 200SX=2 liter SR20... 180SX=CA18... etcetera... it's only the Germans who feel the need to confuse people by labelling models by engine sizes that don't exist anymore.

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SR - brilliant engine series. If Nissan didn't have so much trouble Federalizing it, it'd be as commonplace as the B-series. As it is, still a tuner's favorite, on at least three or four continents.

Still, what I'll fondly remember about the car is the innate sense of balance it had... and the classic, conservatively handsome lines of the car itself. A true blue-collar hero.

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Oh, and if it were only built under the Nissan nameplate....

Lovely little dime...

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Also, another one most people don't think of:

 

[Jay]

240SX = 2.4 liter KA24... 200SX=2 liter SR20... 180SX=CA18... etcetera... it's only the Germans who feel the need to confuse people by labelling models by engine sizes that don't exist anymore.

Well except Nissan slipping the SR20 into the 180SX in 1992 (and still calling it 180sx in Japan).

Also, another one most people don't think of:

Oh yes... the 240RS (S11), so nice but sooo rare.

EDIT reminds me alittle of a Japanese version of the Buick GNX

 

[nk4e]

I understand that the 240sx has the KA24e though I thought the some of the models did have the SR20. Any ways

 

[Leonidae]

funny, our S13 200SX had CA18DET..

 

[JCE]

I understand that the 240sx has the KA24e though I thought the some of the models did have the SR20. Any ways

The car yes, that bodykit = Gross... It ruins the smoothe silky lines of the Z32.

*edit*
Oh, and I had no idea that there were only ~160,000 Z32's produced with ~99k of them exported. That makes them pretty rare actually, this makes me want an unmolested twin turbo model even more.

 

[Watchman]

 

 

[sesselpupser]

Yes, this thread does have some truly underwear-dampening images of Nissans across the ages, but I think you've all overlooked the best Nissan ever built, and frankly you should all be ashamed of yourselves (except those who could see this coming).

I give you...

The March Super Turbo.






And I would get my coat but I'm not sure I had one when I came in.

Edit:
Oh yeah, I chose it simply because there aren't many production cars with both a super and turbo charger (well, there weren't before VW started doing it anyway), so it seems odd that of all the cars ever to share a forced induction setup like the Lancia S4, one of them is a K10 Micra. It's also the only 'hot' Nissan I could actually own right now...

 

[JCE]

Post why it is your choice.

 

[MinoltaMan89]

To JCE, here's a regular 300ZX.

And for me, well...

R34 Skyline GTR

R35 GT-R