See your paraphrasing there. Taken away from the rest of what I'm saying that indeed makes no sense. What I'm suggesting is the current models should have been given whole new names and the fairlady name resigned.
Like everyone else, I'm just reading what you're writing. Any complete sentence ought to stand up on its own. Clearly what you have written doesn't make complete sense. You do it again below.
And how do you mean "resigned"? You think they should stop using the 'Fairlady' name? Why? Big business sometimes spends years and millions trying to get brand names and product identities to 'stick'. A company like Nissan is not going to bin useful and valuable product names just because of what some of
us might think.
The first car to use the 'Fairlady' name was a dinky little open-topped thing with a small four banger OHV engine in 1959. By your logic, the subsequent generations were already straying well beyond any perceived original theme, and by 1969 you can imagine anybody with the same viewpoint as yours was saying that the S30-series 'Fairlady Z' was
"...not a proper Fairlady, because it's got a roof."
Me, I can't see much carry-over between generatiions anyway. Some are particularly bad in that respect: Perhaps a comparison between the S30-series Zs of 1969 and the Z32 for instance? The difference between the S30-series and S130-series was radical enough, and I could even point at huge differences in character for models
in the same series.
z32bolt said:
They may well have a new skyline in the pipe line but the r35 does not have skyline written in it. You may think I'm clueless but your obviously missing the point that these are my opinions. Regardless of nissans intentions.
You seem to be confusing the R35 ( 'Nissan GT-R' ) with all the Skylines that came before it. The whole point is that Nissan have now divorced the 'GT-R' *brand* from the Skyline range, and they have done it for good reasons. It makes sense to me on several different levels.
z32bolt said:
Is there currently a zed and a skyline that stays true to their format? No I'd say not...
As pointed out above, it could be argued that they never
have "stayed true to their format". If the Fairlady name started in 1959 ( 'Z' in 1969 ) and the Skyline name ( on a Prince, no less ) started in 1957, then how could they? I think it's silly to even imagine that they might try.
z32bolt said:
....will there be? Well making the z cheaper and less powerful, ie further and further away from the r line certainly isn't keeping the zed zedly.... And bringing out a new car badged as a skyline (which looks like an Infiniti back catalogue item in my eyes,) further supports the fact that the r35 isn't a skyline.
That's exactly what Nissan have been
trying to do. I don't know why ( a lot of it seems to come from north America... ) but certain people seem to be under the misapprehension that the name 'Skyline' indicated some sort of firebreathing monster. In fact, 'Skyline' is no more magical than 'Cortina', 'Victor' or 'Sierra'. The fact that Nissan made some rather
special Skylines over the years ( some of them wearing 'GTB, 'GT-R', 'GTS-R' emblems and the like ) doesn't change the fact that 99.99% of all Skylines were basically 'grey porridge', just like 99.99% of Cortinas, Victors and Sierras were.
'Skyline' is just a name for a group of cars in a certain perceived sector in any one period, just like 'Fairlady' is. Whole thing is a moveable feast.
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