According to Japan’s Best Car Web, Nissan is reportedly trying convey again the Silvia nameplate in 2025 as a part of a undertaking referred to as the “Pure EV Silvia Revival.” While Nissan has but to verify something of the kind, the publication claims the plan was triggered by the Silvia EV rendering created by Matthew Weaver, vp of Nissan Design Europe, final September.
Said render takes quite a lot of inspiration from the primary Silvia, which carried the codename CSP311 and was launched in September 1964 on the Tokyo Motor Show. The car depicted pays homage to the unique with cues like a single line connecting the higher and decrease physique, albeit additional accentuated by having it reduce into the highest of the wheel arches.
Weaver was additionally in a position to combine cleaner surfaces as an electrical powertrain has far decrease cooling necessities, so there’s no want for a grille the place radiators are usually situated on an inside combustion engine automobile. The rendering additionally adapts the CSP311’s round headlamps, triangular three-quarter home windows and cab again proportions into its design.
The authentic Silvia was additionally recognized as the Datsun Coupe 1500 and was constructed on the identical platform as the Fairlady on the time. It is an extremely uncommon Nissan mannequin, as simply 554 items have been constructed from 1965 to 1968. “It’s so rare in fact, that even some of Nissan’s most seasoned employees haven’t seen one,” the carmaker mentioned in its launch for Weaver’s render.
After the CSP311, the Silvia title was quickly retired till it was revived in 1975 for the S10 that was underpinned by the Nissan S platform. The Silvia would stay a everlasting fixture in Nissan’s line-up from then on, with the S110, S12 and the generations most are aware of, the S13, S14 and S15 – all used the S platform. The Silvia mannequin line was ultimately discontinued in 2002 after manufacturing of the S15 was ended in 2002.
Weaver’s render of the Silvia EV isn’t the one retro trendy creation to come out of Nissan, as through the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show, the carmaker wheeled out the IDx concept impressed by the Datsun 510. That idea by no means turned a manufacturing mannequin, however with Nissan presently embarking on a brand new product technique which already noticed the start of a new Z car, perhaps the Silvia revival can have a preventing likelihood. Fingers crossed.
