From the Car Design Review 4 yearbook: we chat to Nissan’s executive design director about where they go next. Electric GT-R, anyone?
We will have to be even more innovative on future Nissan projects. There are still many SUVs being made with traditional methods and we have some electric vehicle know-how already, but future EV proportions will be completely different. Take Faraday Future’s FF 91 and the Jaguar I-Pace.
Traditionally, expensive cars had a long hood, tight cabin and a short tail. These ones have a very short noses and roomy cabins. To make a new EV is a tough job. The new Leaf will come in late 2017, around the Tokyo motor show. This time, we don’t want to stay just with a hatchback or a sedan, we want to explore more variations.
To have a GT-R EV would be very interesting too. We…
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