#nissan stagea

[neverstopoutlaw]

[things-about-cars-in-posts]

show me a transmasculine car. but a little flamboyant with it.

Well, I pretty much literally asked for this.

So.

To me, a transmasculine car must be a car that underwent some sort of process -of transformation- that resulted in an aesthetic difference between before and after, right?

And that is very much a thing in cars. I mean, you don't even need to know about cars to know people transform them in all sorts of ways, right? But what I intend to talk about specifically here is front-end swaps - people smacking completely different front ends onto their cars to make them look a way they deem preferable - or sometimes just to save money over the original parts. Such is the story of the Sileighty (or sil80), which is a Nissan 180SX onto which drifters that fucked the front end put Nissan Silvia parts instead because they were cheaper and lighter. Before and after:

Now, potentially this may already satisfy your request, but let's keep going anyway: From the opposite swap -putting a 180SX front on the Nissan Silvia- nicknamed Onevia, before and after...

...was born an idea: see, some people thought what the Silvia really needed weren't the headlights from the 180SX, but the ones from a decade younger Honda Odyssey minivan. I don't know why they thought that but it turns out the custom bodykit they created around the concept proved them right.

Now, since as you might have gathered before the Silvia and 180SX front ends are interchangeable, this custom bodykit also bolts right up to the 180SX. Let's see the before and after on that...

Yeah, I feel like we're pretty close.

Although, for the sake of completion, I must add that Nissan also pulled this "different front end for different body styles" trick with the Skyline and its wagon version, the Stagea - and many Stagea owners felt the need to rectify that by installing the Skyline front end on their cars, resulting in the below before and after:

And now, on a completely unrelated note purely because it's pretty rare you get an excuse to bring this up, while some say the 90s Subaru Sambar Dias -also called... well, many other things, really- was the peak of personal transportation (it's me, I'm some), someone else at Subaru clearly thought it wasn't classic enough - hence the special Dias Classic edition (as featured in Love Hina!), which I'm sure was right up someone's alley.

I'm not that confident in my awareness of what I just went on about, so I would very much appreciate some feedback and, of course, reblogs to make the stupidest poll I've seen in quite some time get even bigger a sample size than it ever deserved.

Links in blue are posts of mine explaining the words in question - if you liked this post, you might like those!

[hirocimacruiser]

Bayside Blue C34 Nissan Stagea RS4 with a Dolphin bodykit

[rootbeercarguy]

Stagea from the high octane car party in penticton bc canada

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Nissan Stagea 260RS Autech Version, 1997. A tuned version of the Stagea made by Japanese tuning company Autech. It was powered by a 2.6 litre RB26DETT straight 6 engine coupled to a 5-speed manual transmission and ATTESA E-TS all-wheel drive from the R33 Skyline GTR. There were also  Brembo brakes, 17" BBS alloy wheels, body strengthening, an undercarriage protector, upgraded suspension, a front strut brace, a special rear stabilizer. Like other Japanese sports cars of the time, the 260RS officially produced 280 PS (206 kW; 276 hp) but most sources believe the actual horsepower to be higher.

[louis-charvill-animation]

Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2 gameplay PS2 (1080p, 4:3, 60fps)

Captured using Avermedia Live gamer portable 2 plus with the RetroTink 5x. Tokyo Xtreme Racer Drift 2, Genki, 2006

[radracer]

Nissan Stagea Wagon WC34

@dm_petrolhead

[okosen]

[jagdelf]

[POP RACE] 1/64 日産 ステージア (Mk1・Faceswap)

ブロンズの次はシルバーだ！ずっと気になりつつも手を出していなかった、いわゆるスカージア。ペンズオイルもカルソニックもいいなぁ〜とか迷ってたところにBRE風＋クロームメッキという謎仕様を見つけてつい選んでしまった。

リアスポイラーのチープさが凄まじいが、そこさえ気にしなければなかなかクールに仕上がっていると思う。ボンネット内の彩色されたRB26も嬉しいところ。ミニカー的にはだいぶ見飽きた感のあるR34部分より、ドアから後ろのステージア部分が新鮮でとてもカッコよく見えて、純正ステージアも出して欲しいなぁ…と思ってしまうね。<893>

[vonju-sim]

[fr33z0]

[hirocimacruiser]

Bayside Blue C34 Nissan Stagea

[rootbeercarguy]

Nissan stagea at High Octane Car Party in penticton bc canada

[masoncarr2244]

[radracer]

Nissan Stagea Wagon WC34

@sacredmotive

[okosen]