Nissan Has Made 7 Star Wars-Themed Cars And We're Not Sure How To Feel
As far as automotive/movie tie-ups go, the ongoing collaboration Nissan has with Star Wars is a rather unusual one. At last year’s LA Auto Show the Japanese manufacturer went pretty full on with its Rogue One-inspired Nissan Rogue and full-size Tie Fighter (nope, we’re not joking on that last one), but the ante has well and truly been upped for 2017.
This time around, Nissan has cooked up seven Star Wars-themed vehicles for LA. And if you’ve never watched a film from the lucrative franchise, I’ll apologise in advance, as little of what I’m about to say will make sense. Here we go…
Based on the Maxima we have a Kylo Ren-themed creation, another based on Kylo Ren’s Tie ‘Silencer’ and one that’s riffing off shiny Stormtrooper Captain Phasma.
A solitary Altima has been given a ‘Special Forces Tie Fighter’ treatment, and finally we a Rogue and Rogue Sport, known as the Qashqai and X-Trail in Europe. The Rogue is a replica of Poe Dameron’s X-Wing, complete with BB-8 poking out the roof, and the Rogue Sport is inspired by an A-Wing. The seventh vehicle “and largest by far” is due to be revealed later today.
As if all that wasn’t enough, Nissan also has six X-Wing replicas ‘floating’ above its stand, several Star Wars-themed augmented/virtual reality experiences, and a bunch of storm troopers dropping by to visit over the next two weekends.
What do you think of these one-off vehicles? Pretty cool or just a bit too, err, forceful…?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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To Nissan:
Nissan would’ve had a better chance with a black on black Nismo GTR playing the Imperial March when it is parked.
Everyone is talking about autonomous cars then Nissan come out with bloody space ships, who knew.
these are not the Nissan’s I was looking for…
No chance of a Z-Wing?
No chance of the R36?
Nissan:w-ait what is that
AHAHAHAHA
Just because you have a car called the rouge doesn’t mean you need to make every other car star wars themed to
I know right…
IMHO, Nissan really messed up these cars.
You motherf**r
I bet Nissan have a real sense of pride and accomplishment.
Nissan is lazy and lame these days. Almost all of the vehicles in their lineup are pretty outdated and they are just not bothered catching up with their competition. Toyota has their brand new TNGA platform and 4th gen THS system, Honda has their successful lineup of 1.5T/2.0T engine, Mazda has become prettier than ever before while Nissan has got nothing but to make some ridiculous Star Wars vehicle to make some headlines for themselves at car shows.
Nissan trying to keep their boring cars relative
Earn that Payday Nissan