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Nissan Intima Teana brochure leaked out
Click above for a gallery of the Nissan Teana brochure.
The Scoopers of Cars have gotten their hands on a scanned brochure of the production version of the Nissan Intima concept, and it seems that in addition to getting a mass-market makeover, it will also be sporting a Teana badge when it goes on sale in Japan. The transition from concept to production has been uncharacteristically kind to the Teana, with the tightly drawn headlamps, plummeting C-pillar and elongated tail lamps surviving, but the suicide doors and 22nd century interior must have been scrapped due to feasibility issues. We'll get our first official taste of the Teana when it's finally revealed on April 20th at the Beijing Motor Show.
Gallery: Nissan Teana Brochure Scans
Gallery: Nissan Intima concept
[Source: Carscoop]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Razor1973 3:12PM (4/07/2008)
I'm sure Nissan will think hard and long before bringing this car stateside, as it would most likely affect M35/M45 sales numbers.
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Tinu 7:32PM (4/07/2008)
Dang my, thats one ugly car!
1337 8:22PM (4/07/2008)
Looks like a Nissan Caprice.
AMcA 9:45PM (4/07/2008)
B*tt ugly. Ugly b*tt, too.
Biff Baxter 3:13PM (4/07/2008)
Wow.
I guess good design isn't key to breaking into the Chinese market.
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Franz 3:13PM (4/07/2008)
IMO, the concept was stunning but this is just... ordinary. They should've tried to keep the front true to the concept with the two piece headlights instead of these giant ones. I knew the suicide doors would probably never make production but I was kinda hoping they would have.
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amdforever 3:19PM (4/07/2008)
I thought the concept was unbelievably ugly, but wow, this is just ugly on a different level.
amdforever 3:18PM (4/07/2008)
Oh my, that is FUGLY.
I'm just lost for words.
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RealityCheck 3:44PM (4/07/2008)
I am now going to have my eyes removed and my brain fried to get that picture out of my head.. don't ever compalin about a Chrysler again...
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SPF 3:45PM (4/07/2008)
Know any good doctors? Any recommendations?
SPF 3:44PM (4/07/2008)
Wow, so Nissan is sticking with the whole "Fugly" design thing, huh.
Please god, don't let them ruin the 370Z, please...
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psarhjinian 5:04PM (4/07/2008)
The Z seems to track the Maxima' styling.
Make of that what you will.
PaulPaul 3:52PM (4/07/2008)
looks like this car will continue the recently started tradition of asian automakers creating designs with lamps that stick out of the body; seems so out of place to me on hondas, toyotas, nissans... :/
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Chris 3:52PM (4/07/2008)
Beaten with an ugly forest.
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LBuzzer 4:06PM (4/07/2008)
Man, that is the mother of all water-downs.
The Intima was swoopy, classy, and looked expensive.
The Teana looks like not much.
That's fine because we'll never see it in N. America. Where would it slot in the Nissan/Infiniti line? Could it be a new I37? That would be a stretch and doesn't really fit in the Infiniti philosophy.
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havoc 4:08PM (4/07/2008)
in the tradition of stating a car looks like other cars...
it looks like nissan went into their own parts bin. to me this looks
like a homologation of maxima, G and altima.
oh and agreeing with everybody else, it looks like they took the
parts of the maxima, G and altima that i already didn't like.
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Hung2 4:16PM (4/07/2008)
Is it just me - or is anyone else getting a little sick of this front end - lack of imagination design from Nissan
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Cire 4:20PM (4/07/2008)
I'm glad we are getting the 2009 redesigned Maxima in the U.S. as Nissan's flagship sedan and not this car. It's not the ugliest car I have seen lately (the hideous 2007 Chrysler Sebring still holds this title by a large margin), but it definitely is not one of Nissan's better efforts.
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tankd0g 4:25PM (4/07/2008)
This is just the right mix of ugly and luxury to dominate the Chinese market.
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Cam 4:34PM (4/07/2008)
Wow, glad to see Nissan took the Xerox machine over to Toyota. But at least this Nissan "Avalon" won't be on this side of the pond.
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