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You Fools, You Miscreants, You Wasteful Snobs, Give Your Money Unto Zagato Autech Nissan
You Fools, You Miscreants, You Wasteful Snobs, Give Your Money Unto Zagato Autech Nissan-April 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:09:43

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You have dollars. You have several thousand dollars. You have several tens of thousands of dollars. Great! Hurl them in the direction of on Bring a Trailer.

I’ll lay this out.

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It’s the 1980s in Japan. It is what is now referred to as the “Bubble Era,” a time in which Japanese carmakers (along with the whole economy) was flush with cash and actively striving to move into higher profit margin vehicles.

That meant niche cars.

That meant sports cars.

That meant luxury cars.

That meant higher-quality variations of regular cars.

Companies like Nissan had the money to produce these variants, and they looked into every avenue to get at them.

In the case of Mazda, that included starting a new luxury sub-brand called Amati, which almost made it to market before getting axed at the last moment. A if you want to know more about the Bubble Era itself.

“I was driving it with the windows down,” then-product planner and engineer Bob Hall told me over…

In the case of Nissan, it involved (among other things like the ) inking a deal with the Italian super-weirdos Zagato in 1987 to make mega fancy versions of its fanciest cars.

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The legacy of that tie-up is the Zagato Autech Stelvio, Autech being an in-house tuner of Nissans. The car itself is based on what we’d know as the Infiniti M30 here, the Nissan Leopard elsewhere. The difference, other than the body that includes mirrors integrated right into the fenders, is that the 3.0-liter V6 is turbocharged. Our M30s never got the VG30DET turbo engine (just the VG30E), while outside markets did.

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As such, the Stelvio is simply a must have to stunt on all of your neighbors driving M30s.

Get it together, y’all. The car is with six days to go. Go for this one now.

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