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Worlds & Stories
Road icons, racing heritage and the details that make a miniature unmistakable.
Nissan Silvia (S15)
The black Rocket Bunny model has a lot to say about wheel arches. The D-MAX drift car has plenty to add. I went back to Nissan’s S15 launch and found a more compact starting point: a rear-drive coupe only 1,695 millimetres wide. Before all that extra bodywork, Nissan had actually made the Silvia smaller.
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Nissan Z (RZ34)
The current Z seems to have been designed by someone looking in two directions at once. Nissan says the headlamps recall a Japan-market 240ZG, while the tail lamps remember the much later Z32 300ZX. I started at those opposite ends of the little Mini GT and found a car interested in its family without pretending the whole family happened in one decade.
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Nissan Skyline GT-R (R33)
The grey R33 looks fairly restrained until the full name arrives: NISMO BCNR33 CRS Version. That last bit is doing more work than the paint. I followed it into a programme concerned with a surprisingly sensible question: what should a fast car be able to do after the circuit closes?
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Nissan GT-R (R35)
Those wide arches make plenty of noise without the engine running. Underneath, the R35 has a less obvious trick: the engine lives at the front, while the gearbox sits at the rear. I followed that arrangement before getting distracted by the wings again. There is quite a bit going on between the two ends.
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Nissan Skyline R34
Two Bayside Blue R34 GT-Rs, same scale, same maker. Another colour variation? Look at the bonnet. One tiny opening separates the V-Spec II from the V-Spec, and following it took me much further back than Nissan’s parts catalogue.
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Nissan Skyline GT-R (R32)
Twenty-nine races, twenty-nine wins. The R32 GT-R’s Japanese Group A record sounds like the story of one unstoppable racing car. Then I put two blue Calsonic miniatures beside the HKS number 87. Hang on. Which car are we actually talking about?
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Nissan Skyline
A name with a racing past and a life beyond the circuit. Follow the Skyline from automotive heritage to a collection of miniature details.
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