Photo credit: NemoJunglist
Fans of Japanese sports cars can undoubtedly relate to the sense of missing out. For decades, many people have had a soft spot for the Nissan Silvia. It was the car that appeared, provided sharp handling and a great deal of rear-wheel drive enjoyment, and then vanished after 2002. A new depiction of the car has emerged, with the envisioned S16 model joining its six predecessors in an ultra clean studio scene.
David Scott Neal II, the man behind the design at Mozee Inc., uses the Instagram handle [nemojunglist] for all of his design work. His white rendering of the concept is a breath of fresh air in an era of flamboyant, over-the-top automotive designs. It has all of the lines and smoothness of the older Silvias, but the proportions remain tight and to the point. It draws a few cues from the cars that came before it, but it doesn’t imitate them completely. At the back, the rear haunches flow in a really subtle manner, and the overall design remains compact, which, when you think about it, is very true to the car’s roots as a no-frills drivers car.
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Every predecessor of the Silvia is on display here, including the original 1960s CSP311, with its exquisite coupe body that seemed to have been redesigned from scratch. Then there’s the S10 from the 1970s, which was the first mass-produced vehicle on Nissan’s S-platform. Later models followed, including the S110, S12, S13 with its iconic pop-up headlights, S14, and S15, which was the last to be produced in 2002. Putting them all together in one image demonstrates how much the car has grown over nearly four decades, and the new rendering fits perfectly in, you know?
Neal believes that an electric powertrain is the best alternative for a modern-day Silvia, with Nissan’s e-Power hybrid system being his top choice. He’s not saying anything about power, chassis, or weight, but this is also a period when Nissan is promoting a new, smaller sports vehicle that’s lower down the line, one that may well wear the Silvia badge once more.
JDM aficionados continue to keep the old Silvia’s flame alive today. They make them, drift them, and are always discussing them online. And the S13 through S15 models are now global icons. People adore them for a variety of reasons, but primarily because they provide the ideal blend of entertainment and, if you want to get technical, modification potential. Seeing all seven Silvia versions side by side in one incredibly polished digital area is just the kind of thing that will rekindle all that enthusiasm. DSNII’s visualization is a great reminder of why the Silvia was such a huge thing in the first place, and why, even after all these years, people are still hoping that it will return in real metal form, rather than simply on screen.
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