November 13, 2020

Nissan Qashqai GT-R is a mouth-watering model

Nissan is currently in an endless list of rental cars and family crossovers. But they once provided the world with the best drift cars and some of the coolest and cheapest sports coupes.

We know the S13 will never return and the '400Z' could stay in production until 2040 without a performance upgrade. Instead of endlessly supporting sports cars, we will donate our campaign donations to crossovers as long as they promise V6 biturbo engines.

Nissan knows that if you're crazy enough and have a good plasma cutter, even small crossovers can hit 500 horsepower. A long time ago they built the GT-R all-wheel drive drivetrain into the little Juke crossover.

The result was the Juke-R, which they claimed was going into extremely limited production at the time. Now we don't think they passed the first, but a tuning company really liked the idea.

So the Qashqai R was born in 2014. It also had the GT-R powertrain, but this time it was tuned to over 1,100 horsepower. "It's a Bugatti Veyron so quickly," they said, and a video was also posted to prove it.

Now we understand that our American friends don't know what a qashqai is or how to pronounce it. But it's basically the old version of the rogue sport. After its introduction in Europe, it practically invented the family crossover segment and thus dominated sales.

This model has not been in production for many years, but rendering artist Hugo Silva decided to give the Qashqai R another shot and created this series of epic images. His vision is even more aggressive than that of Veyron's Slayer as he has a huge widebody kit with an additional girth of about a foot.

Plus, the crazy Nissan has aerodynamics for days in the form of ground effects, a carbon splitter, and that huge rear spoiler. It is safe to say that it is not used for shopping.