Jalopnik is making a big do about “NISSAN’S NISMO IS PLANNING A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT ON MONDAY.” And the Jalops wonder: “What could it be?” It might be the start of a large multinational co-operative project between Jalopnik and TTAC. Or not.
All I know is that Nismo will show off its new headquarters in Shin-Koyasu, near Yokohama. Which happens to be in the same complex where the GT-R’s engine is being built. Which reminds me that I still have to write up THAT story. With Carlos Ghosn being there, it stands to reason that more than a redone building will be announced. All I heard is that Nissan may be slowly turning NISMO into a standalone performance brand. And no, the GT-R powered Juke won’t be there. Or so I heard.
Jalopnik asks whether NISMO will “announce they’re going to make bicycles instead of cars. Or ridiculously fast motorized scooters for old people. Or little GT-R shaped drones for the military. Any guesses?”
I guess, the simplest way to find out is to go there. With Shin-Koyasu a 30 minute hop from where I am at the moment, I will be there on Tuesday at 10am. Interested in some pool coverage, Jalopnik? The worst that can happen is that I get another good series of Carlos Ghosn waving his arms.
PS: What’s with Monday and Tuesday? Jalopnik found out that when it’s Tuesday in Japan, it’s ”Monday for us Americans.” Amazing, no?
Amazing!
Nismo will announce that they are going to begin competition in Nascar Sprint Cup in 2015. They are now fielding V8 powered Altimas in the supercar v8 series and with Dodge pulling out of the Nascar fold, they realized that now is the time. The 5.6 liter V8 will fit perfectly with very few modifications. It’s a proven engine that when modified, makes a ton of power. This should lead to exciting racing on the tracks and increased showroom visits at the dealerships.
Better still Classic Trials.
Can’t use that engine. NASCAR doesn’t allow expensive bleeding-edge technology such as overhead cams and fuel injection, it’s too far from “stock”.
@th009
NASCAR has already moved over to fuel-injection. That said, the 5.6L Nissan V8 will not be suitable for NASCAR.
Either way, I’m sure NASCAR is looking for someone to replace Dodge.
Fuel injection in NASCAR! What is this world coming to! Pretty soon we’ll probably see the first fuel injections applications on road cars, too.
I do believe overhead cams (let alone DOHC) are still banned.
Awesome!
Please don’t have videos autostart. That’s the kind of thing that makes me not want to ever visit your site.
I thought a poltergeist had taken over.
Agreed. JFC, that’s as bad as the cascading video ads.
Agreed.
I know, guys. This video has particularly nasty autoplay tags …
… and I give up on the tags. They win
WEC/LeMans P1 entry incoming.
Nissan is going to announce that they’ve replaced the steering wheel with dual WII controllers so that the evolution of the GT-R will be complete and sometime there after in a bid to co-brand its products with Apple it will announce an exclusive Iphone app that will allow you to pilot the car remotely while using said phone to take high rez video at the same time.
*raises hand* Bertel, could you do a favor for us?
More coverage of Yuki Morimoto! No doubt she’ll be interpreting for Ghosn.
In fact, I think I think I speak for everyone here when humbly request you hook us up with some JDM Yuki Morimoto tentacle he….OW!!!
Yes! I really dig her depth and would like to know more about what she thinks about things.
Just a reminder should any Jalopnik staff read this: If tomorrow is Tuesday in Japan then today is Monday… That’s right, Bertel already knows who took home the Oscars. (That’ll get them going.)
So that’s how the Aussie astrologers do it!
NISMO Leaf. But it had better be more potent than the NISMO Leaf they’ve already revealed.
What is “Jalopnik”? Is that like working for bupkis?
I see jalopnik is copying your web layout for some reason, it used to be an awesome site but has gone downhill.
Haven’t been over to to Jalopnik in quite awhile , don’t like what they have done to the place. Especially don’t like the article that seems to endorse higher fuel taxes to curb our thirst for gas, higher prices slow the economy and that doesn’t affect the well to do they just buy more fuel efficient vehicles and go about their merry way, this only affects the people barely getting by now. So I hope TTAC doesn’t get unduly corrupted by them. ha ha