If the Nissan Z is ever turned into an SUV, the result may just look like this student-built Fairlady X concept.
, but it wasn't developed by Nissan. Instead, students at the Nissan Automobile Technical College in Japan created it.
The concept is called the Nissan Fairlady X, and was built by students learning how to repair crash damage and add modifications. Nissan's technical college, which helps cultivate the next generation of automotive specialists, has five campuses, and the campuses in Aichi and Kyoto were involved in the Fairlady X project. The students also built a Serena minivan with styling borrowed from the Cedric sedan.
The Fairlady X concept is based on Nissan's second-generation Murano crossover that debuted as a 2009 model, and integrates design elements borrowed from the latestNissan Fairlady X concept by Nissan Automobile Technical College students The Murano was picked due to being similar in width to the Z. However, blending the low-slung Z's styling with the high-riding Murano's body proved to be a major challenge. Another major challenge was reducing panel gaps to a factory-like level.
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