2016 Nissan Gripz Price
Tim Andrew and the Manufacturer
One little-known but incredibly cool variant of the original Nissan/Datsun 240Z sports car was a rally version decked out with knobby tires, a full array of auxiliary lights, and mud flaps. That racing Z won the East African Safari in 1971, and now it is forming roughly half the inspiration for a crossover concept from Nissan debuting at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show. The rest of Nissan's inspiration for the impending show car, which goes by the slightly silly name "Gripz," came from racing bicycles.
Setting aside the tenuous overlap between road-racing bicycles and one of the coolest rally cars of the 1970s—Nissan says that those old rally cars were "proof that sports cars didn't have to be low to the ground to be fun" and that they were the automaker's first "crossovers"—the Gripz concept looks quite interesting. There is a sporty roofline and sporty 22-inch wheels and a very sporty front end, the whole collection wearing the 240Z race car's black-over-red color scheme. The "V-motion" design theme Nissan debuted on the latest Murano and Maxima models is exaggerated for Gripz duty, and the thin, boomerang-shaped headlights and taillights echo those on a rash of modern Nissans. Unlike any classic Z car, the Gripz is powered by an electric motor that is juiced by an "efficient" onboard engine.
While the car's overall gist reminds us strongly of the Juke, placing this two-plus-two concept as the next Juke's early preview would be a fool's errand. Nissan comes right out and says that the Gripz is "not seen as a direct replacement for either [the Juke or Euro-only Qashqai, but] it does show the extremes to which the compact crossover can be pushed."
Tim Andrew and the Manufacturer
Okay, so what's the Gripz's, uh, grip on reality? It could preview a rumored crossover-ized Z car, as in, a taller Z-branded vehicle that would join or replace today's 370Z sports car. Or it could be our first look at a radical, sportier crossover set to join the popular Juke and, in Europe, the Qashqai. We severely hope Nissan's aiming toward the latter with this concept, if only because a Z car should be a sports car. To try to make it into anything else would be wrong.
Tim Andrew and the Manufacturer
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