Generation Z designs a car for Nissan and it looks pretty old
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Turns out Generation Z doesn’t want a Z-car, it wants a 510.
Nissan unveiled a pair of concept cars at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show this week that are the result of a co-creation effort that solicited input online from so-called “digital natives,” the group of people born after 1990.
Although the project started with a clean sheet of paper and aimed to produce a vehicle free of “legacy influences,” the IDx that resulted from it looks much more like a 21st Century-version of the Datsun 510 from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s than anything on the streets today, including Nissan’s own 370Z sports car.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Shown in both Freeflow street and Nismo track versions, the compact three-box two-doors embrace a combination of simplicity and efficiency, with tidy interiors upholstered in denim and Alcantara, respectively, and powered by 1.2-1.6-liter four-cylinder engines matched to CVT automatic transmissions.
No word if the IDx will spawn a production car, but Nissan says the process that created it could have real world applications soon.