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The Nissan Pulsar NISMO made its debut at the 2014 Paris Auto Show Thursday, but it’ll never turn up in North American showrooms.
The mad scientists of Nissan’s performance division gave the Pulsar a full makeover with double-layered side skirts, redesigned front bumper with larger air intakes, a rear diffuser, center exhaust et al, all riding on 19-inch wheels with a lowered suspension aimed at the track.
Speaking of the track, though no word on what would power the hot hatch has been stated by either party, a likely candidate would be a 1.6-liter turbo-four delivering 200 horsepower. There’s also no word on whether the concept will go into production.
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Never say never: ‘North America’ is an enormous place with three wildly different and separate markets.
Does anyone know the relationship between the Sentra and Pulsar. Same size? same platform?
It’s a Versa – aka Nissan Tiida.
Sold in Australia, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Thailand.
I would buy this.
Thank you. So many names.
It’s nice to see Saab’s front end design not go to waste. Seriously though, nice looking car.
One attractive hatch
My first new car was a 1990 Nissan Sentra, base w/ manual trans and AC. Nothing else. It was also my last Nissan. I would buy this. Nissan is being stupid.
I would buy a Pulsar, with the 1.6T and 6spd. Hold the boy-racer looks. Even without the hot motor it’s got to be worlds better than the Versa Note foisted upon these shores. This could be a worthy successor to the previous Versa hatch.
Get rid of the second set of doors and this would be all kinds of awesome. Civic Si who?
I think it’s a great alternative to the Mazda 3 hatch (which I think looks awesome). It’s a real shame it doesn’t come here… although maybe Nissan can do what Honda does and at least give this to us as a Canada-only model.
Not weird enough to wear the Pulsar badge. Where dat EXA Canopy be at!?