Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Hey everyone! I will be posting this on many import and motoring forums all around the world. The petition is

about encouraging and hoping to influence Nissan Motors to continue to produce performance and turbo import

vehicles. After a period of time, when as much signatures are collected as possible, I will be sending this to the

CEO of Nissan Motors, Carlos Ghosn, with a short statement. Help make the future of Nissan imports &

performance vehicles bright!! (by signing the petition located by link ABOVE.)

TELL YOUR FAMILY, FRIENDS, LOCAL DOCTOR, ANYONE WHO LOVES THEIR NISSANS!!!!

We can all join and unite as one to make a powerful force to encourage and influence the future of our beloved cars!!

Many thanks to Go Petition! & Nissan Silvia! & Skylines Australia!

DSC02486.jpg

IMG_0086.jpg

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/145420-sign-this-petition-imports/
Share on other sites

hmmm - i was just reading up last one on the future of performance vehicles. Ultimately I think it will head towards the hybrids - and it certainly does look that way. But I have signed the petition anyway.

Is there a chance this could work in reverse? ie. if not enough people sign it and nissan happen to find out - would they assume that there are not enough buyers to warrant building more turbo performance cars??

I signed it anyways :) all the best...

IMO its not all about the customers, its about continuing Nissan's heritage - they have been a leader in their class for some time and the GTR is a world famous car. But it comes down to the company's focus and direction I guess.

ROFL.. can any of you actually afford brand new nissan sports cars to show that there is a demand, and to encourage them to make further models?

I assume you all own 350z ? you're all buying the next GTR in cash? :laugh:

ROFL.. can any of you actually afford brand new nissan sports cars to show that there is a demand, and to encourage them to make further models?

I assume you all own 350z ? you're all buying the next GTR in cash? :laugh:

of course.....not :rofl:

but we are giving nissan some great positive exposure with the cars we drive now... :P

I could be wrong on this but most car manufacturers seem to use their powerplant top-model cars to help sell their daily-driver/family cars. I dont know how much difference it makes but a lot of manufacturers use it in their advertising.

It seems from the 350z that nissan still want a "sports car" in their mix of cars so I'd say _that_ trend will continue. But I personally doubt we'll see another silvia or skyline true to the ones we drive. Maybe nissan will make another performance coupe (possibly the ugly foria concept?) and re-use the silvia name? who knows?

but we are giving nissan some great positive exposure with the cars we drive now... :D

By wrapping them around poles or running from the police? I bet Nissan wished that Skylines were never allowed to be imported to tell you the truth!

By wrapping them around poles or running from the police? I bet Nissan wished that Skylines were never allowed to be imported to tell you the truth!

i think you'll find thats still the minority. but i thought of that after i'd posted...oh well. :P

and in any case hoons will be hoons - its hardly the fault of the car. There are a more hoons in aussie cars in my opinion - eg. beat up holden commodores...seems nearly everyone that drives a vp/vn thinks they have a rocket...

I hate to say this but Nissan dont make imports. We make them imports by importing them.

And Nissan Australia certainly isnt keen on us importing skylines, silvias etc...

By wrapping them around poles or running from the police? I bet Nissan wished that Skylines were never allowed to be imported to tell you the truth!

i agree with pixel8r.

an import nissan gets wraped around a poll, and it gets plenty of media attention, mentioning the model of the car and the age of the driver...etc..etc..so then ppl think "jeez, its always the skylines, silvia..etc.."

wen a random holden gets trashed, the car isnt even mentioned in the media...

I hate to say this but Nissan dont make imports. We make them imports by importing them.

And Nissan Australia certainly isnt keen on us importing skylines, silvias etc...

bingo. You're petition wording is flawed and will make people at Nissan scratch their heads when they read about 25 people worldwide wanting Nissan to "continue making turbo imports!!"

turbo technology is still a viable performance option, 335i coupe, 997 Turbo, etc, etc, but Nissan has JUST managed to drag itself out of the water, and is going quite well at the moment. But recovering car companies do NOT want to start adding 3 performance models to cater for an ever increasing environmentally aware, public.

And i would argue that Nissan Oz is quite happy for us to import, save them the cost of bringing the cars here themselves, market them, advertise them, dealership space...etc. etc. Instead, we bring em in, get them serviced, buy parts, get parts brought in from japan at stupidly high prices. No, i think Nissan quite likes it. We know that the car companies get their biggest marings from parts and servicing, it's probably a nice little bonus for them with all these imports running around.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • H2 (for cars) will never happen. It's not reasonable for any number of reasons. It's also not reasonable for almost all of the industrial uses that the fanbois say that it will be used for, again for a large number of reasons. There are some cases where it will be good. But, even those will be massively hampered by the economics. The only way that H2 can be economic is if we somehow manage to get from where we are to the other side of the economic-valley-of-death in which no-one can operate. You need there to be sufficient renewable generated electricity to be available so that it is effectively free. Once you are there, you can do whatever the hell you want and hang the efficiency. But until you get there, the ever diminishing value of electricity makes it harder and harder to encourage businesses to build the new generation capacity, and they will simply stop investing in generation projects. (I kinda think there needs to be just government money spent on building the required capacity in a non-commercial way, similar to how the first fossil fueled grids were built, as national-government owned utilities. And probably some nuclear in there to start. But this all should have started 10-15 years ago to avoid the chasm of death that we face right now). Synth fuels will be much more likely, but will only occur is there is at least some renewable H2 production, because you need H2 to do it. And you need stacks of free (or at least extraordinarily cheap) energy because assembling molecules back into fuels is exactly the opposite process to burning the fuel, and the reason we burn fuels is because there is so much energy squeezed into each molecule. So you're somewhat subject to the same economic valley of death problem as above anyway. That is unless people are willing to pay the current equivalent of $5 or $6 per litre of petrol-ish liquid fuels. Can you imagine it? The squealing at $2 now is bad enough.
    • This is so cool. Get a dashcam that records audio and hopefully you'll catch it.  Maybe there's a brand or some kind of markings on the back ? Are the pics hand drawn? I love it so much.
    • Hahaha yep, point(s) taken. I just like seeing different things and an EV in an R32 is pretty different. I'm not on the EV band wagon, I'm waiting for synthetic fuels or hydrogen personally. 
    • I mean it's probably likely that people overestimate their skills in dialling in a setup and noticing the changes. I had SK shocks and springs, and added heavier springs and got them revalved by Sydney Shocks to suit based upon what I told them I wanted the car to handle like. I got back a completely different feeling set of shocks, which probably (?) feel great on track but holy hell are they rough on tram tracks and the like. The shock dyno actually looks pretty similar to Shockworks (from what I can surmise from a screenshot of a youtube video - and my dyno printout...) Truth be told I doubt I'd be any faster or slower with either setup, or camber/castor combination. I also had whiteline eccentric castor bushes up front of my R34. I removed them and put in poly non-adjustable ones to soothe my OCD (nobody ever set the castor the same side to side, and it'd be near impossible to do) and be happy the wheel is centered in the well now for clearance reasons. Yes I wanted it to move 1mm 'back' :p I've effectively set my castor back to stock, negating all the benefits of that which is supposedly massive. I've probably also altered toe and camber in a negative (detrimental) way. I can't tell any difference steering the car.
×
×
  • Create New...