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u/Common_Vagrant 2d ago edited 2d ago
There is an Infiniti skyline in the US. Seeing as how this isn’t the US and it’s a Nissan badge, it may actually be a skyline, assuming Infiniti isn’t in this country.
Edit: just noticed it’s Australia, not some “country”
Edit 2: yeah they’re called V35 Nissan Skylines outside the US.
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u/VisforVenom 2d ago
One of the worst subs for vagueposting. Impossible to tell if you're here for the meme, or lost.
Skylines, like many other Nissan products, don't really fit in the nissandriver spectrum. It's really Altimas, Maximas, Rogues, and then some subgenres of Infiniti and a rare, very niche type of z car owner.
And if it WAS an Altima, it would make perfect sense as a Mariokart vehicle. Driving through yards backwards, smashing into walls and other vehicles, falling off overpasses, eating mushrooms and smashing the gas pedal to the floor in a vehicle with tires so bare that it really will spin out if it hits a banana peel. Seems fine to me.
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u/foxjohnc87 2d ago
a rare, very niche type of z car owner.
Nissan Z and Infiniti G owners are very much part of the nissandriver spectrum.
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u/VisforVenom 1d ago edited 1d ago
For sure. But it's almost like an inverse curve. Where you can look at an Altima and guess who's driving it with pretty high success, you can look at a certain type of guy and guess he owns a 40 year old pullapart sourced 299 1/2z in the iconic C-3po homage silver and tan patchwork panels with the rust red front left quarter and an inexplicable handpainted Firebird emblem on the hood.
But he's not really a Nissan DRIVER because the car rarely moves. He's more of a Nissan "rider" as he sits shotgun and bitches about his busted can of biscuits babymama refusing to let him drive her Juke with a suspended license while she takes him around town on her day off from Waffle House to addresses he's reverse searched from "porch pickup" facebook marketplace listing for parts he needs to get the car running... waiting for someone else to make the deal and the item to be set upon said porch, for his opportunity to strike.
The rest are either classic Zs kept by now elderly people or low key enthusiasts, or newer Zs that are for sale after a wreck bc the carebear faced Michael Chickless bodied "owner" fell into some cash when his girlfriend's grandpa died but she doesn't want it in the driveway anymore, and, well, it's in her name so...
I'm sure there are pockets of geography out there where the Z car falls into Infiniti driver territory. But I haven't seen it. I mean, really the key factor that separates Classic Datsun and actual enthusiast Nissan products and their owners from the ND stigma is right there- the word OWNER.
Not a lot of 32 year leases at 46% interest out there using their oil pan to make jerky doing 95 in the right lane to pass you before they veer left to kiss the jersey block and narrowly avoid the exit by the grace of their 3 spare tires and 20" chrome painted layaway wheel wearing diy racing slicks.
Tl;Dr: they are represented on the spectrum, but they are not representative of the spectrum. Rare/niche meaning if you take a random sample of 100 z car owners you got maybe 5 or 6 textbook Nissan Drivers and probably 20 or 30 that exhibit minor traits but not enough to be diagnosed. Take 100 Altima/Maxima drivers and you get 2 middle aged men who have noticed that other cars tend to clear out of his way since getting a decent deal on a used econobox for work travel... but haven't thought much else about it. The rest fit the bill.
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u/foxjohnc87 1d ago
In my experience, the newer Zs (350 & 370) are pretty much all driven by broccoli haired menaces just like the Infiniti Gs. The older ones have escaped that fate (aside from a few absolutely beat Z32s) and the 400Z is mainly driven by new balance wearing senior citizens.
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u/just_as_good380-2 2d ago
Yeah you're right something is wrong.
The eyes aren't symmetrical on that building
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u/KeyNefariousness6848 2d ago
Who in their right mind let That park beside Herbie! And who took a pic with Herbie in it and didn’t make sure he was fully in frame?
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u/CrimsonFatalis8 2d ago
You referring to it being a skyline or something? Because that what they’re called in Japan.