The Nissan AZEAL was a concept car first released to the public at the
2005 North American International Auto Show. The concept is a sports
coupé aimed at young drivers. The Azeal features trendy gadgetry, like an integrated
cell phone and an
MP3 player. The car's goals are to place emphasis on personality and aggressive styling as well as blend affordability with desirability. Penned by designers Ken Lee and David Wong, it is the first
Nissan to come out of its new
Farmington Hills,
Michigan
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(
Metro Detroit
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) design centre.
Michigan studio to drive new Nissan look
" ''The Detroit News
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''. March 18, 2005. Retrieved on November 6, 2013. ID: det21098142. "The Azeal was the first model designed at Nissan's Farmington Hills studio, ..
The AZEAL has a turbocharged 2.5-litre, 4-cylinder engine with a 6-speed manual transmission equipped with a limited-slip differential. It is front-wheel drive. No further information on the car has been released by Nissan yet. Exterior features of the AZEAL include 19" aluminum-alloy wheels, dual exhaust pipes, side skirts and a spoiler topped off with glass roof panels like those found in the Nissan Maxima
The Nissan Maxima is a full-size car manufactured and marketed by Nissan and offered as Nissan's flagship sedan primarily in North America, the Middle East, and China — and currently in its eighth generation. Having debuted for model year ...
and Nissan Quest.
Much of the exterior design for AZEAL went into the production version of 2007 Nissan Sentra
The Nissan Sentra is a series of automobiles manufactured by the Japanese automaker Nissan since 1982. Since 1999, the Sentra has been categorized as a compact car, while previously it occupied the subcompact class. Until 2006, Sentra was a reba ...
.
References
External links
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