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Good news, fans of oddly shaped three-seater sports cars: the Nissan BladeGlider"s not dead yet.Nissan"s design boss Shiro Nakamura used the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show to tell Top Gear he still hopes it can make small-scale production.The 264bhp sports car mated the sense of an electric-only powertrain with the silliness of a drift mode, and while the CES car hall in Las Vegas seemed to revolve around autonomous driving, Nakamura was very keen to stress that taking the wheel ourselves still has its place."Always, our cars should let you choose between autonomy and driving," he says, adding that as cars morph into a strand of a mobility system, sports cars will become very special. "It"s not about transportation. You enjoy driving if you buy one."So what of the BladeGlider"s chance to make production? "At the moment it still remains as an experimental prototype," says Nakamura. "But it"s not a concept, this is a very real car. You can push hard and go to the limit. Which means this car can be produced."Click here to read about the time Top Gear drove the BladeGlider"I"ll personally be happy if we can make a small limited production, it"s not necessarily one for big production, and this car is not for everybody. It"s a weekend car. It"s very fun to drive and that"s why we want to make it, if we can get enough customers."
Date written: 9 Jan 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6322
Good news, fans of oddly shaped three-seater sports cars: the Nissan BladeGlider"s not dead yet.Nissan"s design boss Shiro Nakamura used the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show to tell Top Gear he still hopes it can make small-scale production.The 264bhp sports car mated the sense of an electric-only powertrain with the silliness of a drift mode, and while the CES car hall in Las Vegas seemed to revolve around autonomous driving, Nakamura was very keen to stress that taking the wheel ourselves still has its place."Always, our cars should let you choose between autonomy and driving," he says, adding that as cars morph into a strand of a mobility system, sports cars will become very special. "It"s not about transportation. You enjoy driving if you buy one."So what of the BladeGlider"s chance to make production? "At the moment it still remains as an experimental prototype," says Nakamura. "But it"s not a concept, this is a very real car. You can push hard and go to the limit. Which means this car can be produced."Click here to read about the time Top Gear drove the BladeGlider"I"ll personally be happy if we can make a small limited production, it"s not necessarily one for big production, and this car is not for everybody. It"s a weekend car. It"s very fun to drive and that"s why we want to make it, if we can get enough customers."
Date written: 9 Jan 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 6322
