Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Teaser: Nissan Qazana Concept is a 3 Front Seater Crossover?



Nissan released the first slew of images of the Nissan Qazana Concept, of which we've previously reported. Of course, they only released half of this, being dedicated automotive journalist, of course we would do all that's necessary (2 minute MS Paint) to paint you all a better picture (yes, puns).

This Kia Soul contender, which is a sleek, small crossover that's even smaller than the Qashqai. (Yes, Qashqai is around the same/smaller than Kia Soul) sports very aethletic lines in the first released teaser which shows nothing more than two pen strokes of outline.

Now, we're quite sure we didn't 'eye judge' wrongly on the width of the car, given that it should be a smaller car than the Qashqai, and judging from the width of two car seats (barely visible), with a center console, this should be around what the real Qazana Concept should look like (provided it had a completely asymmetric design - which had a possibility ratio of the next GTR being FWD).

Spacing out the copied and flipped image to the other side sounds easy, judging the width by engineering logic (the seat's width) and marketing experience (positioned below Qashqai and therefore can't be much bigger); we had a tough time figuring over those over sized fog lamps - (Or were they the headlamp, and those atop are oversized indicators?) which would simply be too out of place here.

Let's again put down a few elements that enables our hypothesis:

1. Qashqai is smaller than the Kia Soul - Impossible for another contender to go below the Qashqai
2. If we spaced it to something similiar or smaller than the Qashqai, then the fog lamps would be seemingly impossible to be in those placement, not to say the wing mirrors might be a tad too huge.
3. Nissan had the Murano, X-Trail, Qashqai; covering all sizes of SUVs and crossovers, one thing Nissan does not, is something likg the Honda Edix or Fiat Multipla. A 6 seater, with a 3+3 layout.

We're quite certain, thus upon spacing them further to accomodate a third seat in the middle and a nissan logo, everything now seems better fitted. (Yes, the fogs are still crazily HUGE)