# Nissan Silvia S16
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749
**Category:** SON240sx Automotive
**Created:** [August 20, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749 "2007-08-20T20:55:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Canadian\_Idol](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Canadian_Idol)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/1 "2007-08-20T20:55:16Z")
Equipped with VTEC and runs 0:59s all day at Dunnville.
Japan’s top two auto makers have a long and sordid history of ripping off each other’s successful designs. No sooner had the Nissan Cube become a run away success in its home market than Toyota came up with the similarly boxy bB (Scion xB). Many years earlier, after the Toyota HiLux Surf (4Runner) proved a hit with, well, surfers, Nissan restyled their Terrano with nigh on identical lines, hoping to ride on the coattails of the Toyota. And let’s not get in to the Supra vs. Z and Celica vs. Skyline wars.
Now, just weeks after confirming that Toyota does indeed have a successor to the lauded AE86 in the pipeline, Best Car magazine claims to have evidence that Nissan has got a team working on building a new Silvia. Like the final 2002 S15 Spec R Silvia the new car is reckoned to be powered by a turbocharged two-liter good for 247 HP, but will just be 10 kgs heavier at one and a quarter metric tons (2450lbs).
The new range should sell for between 2.5 and 2.8 million Yen ($21,000 - $23,700), but not until 2010. Best Car’s scoop ties in nicely with photographs of a shortened Z, most likely a mule testing a new, smaller FR drive train, taken at the ring earlier in the summer. If the new Silvia is indeed to be based on a modified Z/Skyline LM platform, expect a similar wheelbase of 8’ 6", but smaller overall dimensions, around 14’ 4" long by 5’ 8" wide.
Chances of Nissan bringing a concept car, possibly derived from the URGE shown in Detroit last year, to October’s Tokyo Motor Show? 60-percet according to the magazine.
[Source: Best Car]
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### Author:  [@slipperysilvia](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slipperysilvia)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 9:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/2 "2007-08-20T21:12:19Z")
looks like ass, but it also looks like its got a lower centre of gravity, i bet it will handle similar to a 350z with weight deductions…
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### Author:  [@3ni2nr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/3ni2nr)
#### Post date: [August 20, 2007, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/3 "2007-08-20T21:17:36Z")
[http://news.windingroad.com/body-sty…le-sports-car/](http://news.windingroad.com/body-stylesmarket-segment/coupes/spied-nissans-new-affordable-sports-car/)
[http://news.windingroad.com/body-sty…le-sports-car/](http://news.windingroad.com/body-stylesmarket-segment/coupes/spied-nissans-new-affordable-sports-car/)
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### Author:  [@Keez](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Keez)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2007, 12:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/4 "2007-08-21T00:24:54Z")
does look likepoo but alot like a honda
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### Author:  [@Fobwall](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fobwall)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2007, 5:57am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/5 "2007-08-21T05:57:19Z")
It looks like the inside of my toilet bowl after I eat really spicy food and rice.
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### Author:  [@cgguy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/cgguy)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2007, 7:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/6 "2007-08-21T07:16:12Z")
Nissan already made that car in 1993. It was called the NX.
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### Author:  [@Canadian\_Idol](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Canadian_Idol)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2007, 7:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/7 "2007-08-21T07:46:09Z")
I like it overall. I mean any entry level RWD sports car is good in my books. I wonder what they will use for power?
it would be dope to see the return of the trunk though. But in todays market never going to happen, e’rybody wants mad cargo space to buy shit from Best Buy & Ikea they don’t need.
Pretty clear what performance benchmark they are going for LOL.
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### Author:  [@Lucas180](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Lucas180)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2007, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/8 "2007-08-21T09:46:32Z")
Looks alot like the RX-8 at the back…
its alright looking i guess…
i still think they sghould jsut leave the silvia and s names alone bringing out a new S car would ruin it i think.
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### Author:  [@spilner](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/spilner)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2007, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/9 "2007-08-21T10:25:43Z")
ohh snap. just in time for when I turn 25 too, can anyone say “financing”? heheh
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### Author:  [@krgoodwin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/krgoodwin)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/10 "2007-08-22T15:32:06Z")
On April fools a couple years ago as a joke there was a S16 thread. Isnt that the same picture from that thread? Am I totaly wrong? Did I just ruin the whole gag?
Edit: Nevermind, found the thread. My mistake. But I have seen that picture somewhere before.
Anways, if Nissan does make an S16 I hope it doesnt look like that. They’ll probably throw in the 3.5L and make it terrible with stupid electronics. I am less than enchanted.
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### Author:  [@Arruda](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Arruda)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/11 "2007-08-22T17:16:17Z")
looks like a precidia
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### Author:  [@S13GG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S13GG)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/12 "2007-08-22T17:18:09Z")
The fun part will be test driving the thing and saying,
“no, I think my 20 year old 240sx is faster, and more fun”
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### Author:  [@GetARide](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/GetARide)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2007, 11:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/13 "2007-08-24T11:40:04Z")
I think it looks like a toyota celica, look at the hood and headlights.
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### Author:  [@Soulitude](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Soulitude)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2007, 11:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/14 "2007-08-24T11:47:57Z")
yeah it does, and we all know how successful that car was
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### Author:  [@Lith](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Lith)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 10:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/15 "2007-08-25T10:37:04Z")
no matter how that car looks, it better be priced right… i.e. not over 30k.
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### Author:  [@jammin1911](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jammin1911)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/16 "2007-08-25T10:39:49Z")
> [@2G-Money"](#):
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> between 2.5 and 2.8 million Yen ($21,000 - $23,700), but not until 2010
😃
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### Author:  [@Lith](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Lith)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/17 "2007-08-25T10:45:01Z")
> [@My new toy](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/my-new-toy/13778/22):
>
> 😃
lets hope the canadian dollar stays nice a strong till then 🙂
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### Author:  [@Adam\_s13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Adam_s13)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 10:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/18 "2007-08-25T10:50:23Z")
I hope Nissan design body more in s13/rx7 style.:mad:
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### Author:  [@jammin1911](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jammin1911)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 12:13pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/19 "2007-08-25T12:13:32Z")
it definitely seems to have a a fwd “style” design… whatever that means… but i dont mind it.
it probably wont look anything like that anyhow…
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### Author:  [@roast](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/roast)
#### Post date: [August 25, 2007, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nissan-silvia-s16/108749/20 "2007-08-25T13:58:06Z")
I love it.
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