Real Road Test: Nissan Stagea - 280bhp family wagon! (turn up the speakers)
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- Опубликовано: 19 июл 2021
- Think of it as a Nissan 350Z estate, because it goes like stink yet is practical and spacious. I put a 2004 Nissan Stagea V35 through its paces. It has a 5-speed automatic gearbox and all-wheel drive. It makes an AMAZING noise too.
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6:24 Thank you for demonstrating the Kidnapping Space available in the boot. So few car reviewers do that these days and it makes car buying decisions so much harder for us hard working kidna..... car buyers.
@@TheKenjoje But Ian did it better
They used to use Vauxhall Omega Estates . . . loads of room in the back for at least four.
@@TheKenjoje chest freezers. Plus their..... contents
@@TheKenjoje Bodies!
Mild mannered man with beard rags another rapid ricer AND says ‘here in the rear’
A Nissan with power, lovely, watch the revs go up and the fuel go down. Going to the shop never has been more fun.
My hubnut car is a 25 year old Jaguar XK8, great fun, lots of go go juice 😬, and after my recent professional servicing I had only 1 bolt left over....result 👍
Conclusive proof you don't need a 3 cylinder 800cc to be a hubnutter 😀👌
A minidisc player! Now I’m interested! That’s a handsome estate and the wheels suit it well.
I loved my old minidisc player, miss it now. ☹️
I remeber loving the older ones in GT1 as a kid. Nice to hear one giving it some
I love the looks of this vehicle! 3.5 litre V6 was put into many different Nissan vehicles.
Like the dash, and interior.
Better than any truck based vehicle that is so common on US roads. I definitely have this over the current truck based vehicles!
And you look very smart behind the wheel!
Another car I have never seen before. Your channel continues to educate!
A rare driver on UK roads that knows his limits. If everyone was like you, it'd be a better place
No wind-defectors. Hurrah!
Very practical, very stylish. Grab twice the amount of shopping in half the time. Alternatively, drive twice as far to get to your shopping but be home at the same time.
Sounds absolutely wonderful.
I quite like the wheels as well.
How very unHubnut 😁 You never cease to surprise Ian, I'd never heard of this car before.
Love the hub nut acceleration laugh! It’s been a while. Great video. Looking forward to some tinkering.
Assembled at the Musashimurayama plant. Try saying that after a couple of pints!
Couldn't say it before a couple of pints.
Blimey!
My Mazda was assembled at the Hiroshima plant....glows in the dark.
@@AUmarcus HaHa love it.
@@AUmarcus mine too Mazda hofu assembly
This is my favourite type of car. Understated, yet powerful and making all the right noise. With the added bonus of Minidsic i almost want one right now.
A fast wagon is by far the most appealing sort of car! That V6 just sounds absolutely gorgeous. Love the noise of the cooling fans too! Great review Ian!
Ah yes, a stationcar with a fine sounding (and performing!) V6 under the hood.
That's what i loved about my '11 Skoda Superb V6 stationcar. 260 bhp, 6 speed DSG and 4WD. What an awesome car that was.
Hilarious too, as it performed very well. I do mis that car from time to time.
I've never heard of it but I like it, very nice, understated car, thanks for that very good
Excellent. If you don't love a big estate with far too much power, you need serious help.
This car is great! The sound is addictive.
That auto box was sweet as you like...fast, smooth changes, kicks down instantly when you hit the loud pedal and is happy to let the engine rev to the limit. Whoever designed that knew what they were about.
Brilliant video Ian 👍
Another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets
Excellent and smart, street machine 'under the radar', lots of fun! HubNut, justly 'The Festival Of The Unexpected'.
And thank you kindly for actually filming and including the (engine) bonnet and rear hatch shots. Eagerly looking
forward to a UK reg Mitsubushi Sigma Wagon 3.0 V6 24V👊😎
What a nice machine. Ultimate sleeper by the looks of it. Great video! 👍👍
Always nice with some JDM'y strangeness 😎👍
Excellent video you seem to have taken a liking to the car 👍👍
Hi Ian, another great review and road test,and what a great sound it makes
Never knew this existed. Once had a trip in a Mitsubishi LEGNUM / VR4 estate, same brilliant concept and as Audi RS wagons.
Got to love an understated hot estate car! Wolf in sheep’s clothing looks could give some great fun drag start moments at traffic lights. 👍
What a plain looking car until you hit the loud pedal, always liked these if you want a Skyline but need practicality then this is what you need!
The owner of this beautiful beast is really looking after it, I saw this tested a couple of years ago and having anothe 30k has done it no harm, in fact it looks better. Nice to see Ian enjoying power, I think we all have that in us just not every day!
Sleeper wagons are always lovely.
Sometimes more is more, nice video.
Is Hubnut getting addicted to BHP? How long before the C5 is running a huge turbo at 35 psi 😀
Before we know it Elly is going to end up LS swapped.
The C5 is leaving the fleet shortly.
He will put a v8 in TWC and do drag racing soon
There's a Yugo in the US with two Cadillac Eldorado engines in it... Doesn't someone have an extra Oltcit in the back of his garage?
Middle age crisis, maybe? ;-)
can't get them here.. in fact there must have been some kind of meeting in Germany where Nissan just said- only Micras and other cars below 100hp for you.... my first car was a Sunny with James Bond like smokescreen on startup every morning.. still liked it though
Wow,wow,wow what an awesome execution of a car design,as im living in the land of diesel pickups and suvs....... 😭
Same engine and transmission as in my Elgrand e51, that are bulletproof with regular oil changes.
You beat me to it. I was gonna say the same.
Dont they have issues with blocked catalytic converters on the Elgrand (not the engines problem, admittedly)?
Yes. They have 4 and when the fronts break down they block the rears . I've had my rears de-cored.
Same as my e50 pulls at least 180kmh and still pulling hard ( on a track of course)
I like Q-cars and this is one of them. I can't remember when I first saw one here in Oz (it would've been a series 1), but I do remember giving it a second and third look and liking it a lot.
He revved it !!! Yayyy !!!
Its bloody gorgeous...with performance to match.
Love it Ian. Think you may have to rethink the slogan eh????? 😂
Now THAT is the sort of estate car for me!
reminds me of my 1st gen infiniti g35. love it.
Thats a fancy datsun
I love that sound
Now,I always wanted one of these things,very naughty in any guise but the older ones are mad.
Except insurance and fuel are astronomical.
Awesome vid tho Ian! Hoonery at its finest...
Never heard of them but I think I want one now
Never heard of or seen one of these. What an interesting concept. Who thinks I need a car to hoon the dogs about in? Fantastic review as always. 🙂
Wow, wish we had more cars like this in the UK. I'm a huge fan of Q cars! And that sound is great!
Never knew about this car , thanks for letting us know about it ... I think it'd be really handy if you wanted to dump an old mattress down the tip in a hurry !
Love this car, like an under the radar Volvo T5R
Suits you sir! What a soundtrack!
Wow 😮! Now, I do like this a lot….
Nice wiper-action - RHD too!
All RHD. They never built these with left-hand drive as far as I know.
Awesome car, the styling is very conservative which is fine if a sleeper is what you’re after. The first gen looked like a Skyline estate which was much more visually appealing in my opinion.
Very nice, if only petrol wasn't so expensive in this country!
Thanks for sharing HubNut. My immaterial intense dislike of the VQ related engine and the loss of the in line Skylines WC34 strain is overcome by its Attessa four wheel drive. Former 1996 Stagea owner here. Your drive proved that I was right in not updating. The earlier pressed steel multilink cars and its 28 Imperial mpg with a 2.5 litre was sweeter. The growth was a disaster.
I can see hubnut buying cars like this in the future in his fleet
Hello and Season's Greeting's,
That look's like a Renault Laguna ii on Steriod's to me...even the interior remind's me of my 01 SportTourer just more boxy.
All the best to you and your's and Stay safe.
Wouldn't mind letting you test drive my 2016 Toyota GT86. :) Great road test!
A nutty car that's fab!
A very very cool car!
Tremendous 👍
That was nice 👌
This generation Skyline was very attractive and was a big seller here in the US as the Infiniti G35 sedan/saloon and coupe. The follow up G37 was also quite popular.
Ahh! I nearly bought one of these, years ago.
I was taking a friend of mine to view a Subaru Impreza (which he ended up buying) and we both saw what looked like a debadged Volvo estate parked outside, with Nissan wheels on it. "How strange" I thought (or words to that effect).
I had a test drive and it was absolutely fantastic. Best car I have ever driven! I was very close to buying it on the spot, but decided to get quotes for the insurance before committing.
A wise choice, it emerged.
When I rang & searched around, no insurance firm had even heard of the Stagea, so couldn't insure me. Oops!
The one I saw was a '97, as I recall, with said twin turbos and silly amounts of power. It was absolutely bloody spotless.
One of those must come to the fleet Ian
That rather sounds like a Maserati or similar, but has optics without the bling. A very lovely car. Thanks for sharing!
An estate with some poke, Nissan mechanicals and a minidisc player. This is truly remarkable
That has such a good looking back end
HubNut Hoons it !!!
Now I'm all nostalgic for my first generation V35 Skyline. Best car I've ever owned, but it got a bit big for the central Auckland traffic (and especially the central Auckland parking spaces). Mine had a 3.0 litre V6: the split into 2.5 and 3.5 was a bit later. Quiet, relaxed driving, but the power is there for overtaking. Actually, my wife chose it: I gave her a choice between a Toyota Altezza and the V35: I love JDM used imports.
You looked good in that!
Watching you drive the car I couldn’t help think ‘ cop car’ Great soundtrack for a V6.
Plenty of these in NZ, although they tend to be driven by a specific type of driver....
Are we talking hoons here? Or is that just a Strine word?
who are they driven by?
@@caw25sha - Hoons is also use in NZ, liberated from 'Straya of course :)
Hoons is accurate. Bogans. Remove the silencer, lower it, black alloys and then race around residential areas then blame the police revenue gathering when it gets towed.
I admit to be a bit of a hoon. :)
AY UP MR HUBNUT
What a really interesting car, spot on about the preference for a "sleeper" with power rather than a stupid lairy shouty thing with a big spoiler.
Lovely example, and surely very rare. Makes me wish I had a family to lug around!
Not uncommon in NZ. At all. A lot of them get used for towing boats & caravans.
@@iatsd Yes, I was thinking of the UK mate, rarer than hens teeth over here.
My daily is an Audi A4 Estate 2.0 TDI S Line Black Edition and I love that it looks like a total sleeper, much like the Nissan Stagea. You don’t see many if any in the UK, but it looks like a decent size with good pull. Guessing they weren’t sold here looking at all the changes the owner has made.
Flying low under the radar. Nice car.
Very nice
"That never really wears off." When you're at the pump, it will wear off.👍
I do like a well powered, large wagon and Q cars in general. This, or a crown estate import is on my shortlist to replace my W124 280TE.
Keep the 280TE!!
I've got a Crown Athlete VX and it's the best car I've had hands down. The prices are getting silly now though
@@mehrzahl2219 I intend to, but not as my daily driver. It is 30 years old now.
Oh...I want one of these! 😳
hello hubnut,love you to comment on the skoda yety,i have one and i think it is a great motor
Cool. And it is! Yes boot space is huge.
"For a Japanese car quite minimalist." Yes most people say otherwise but if you look in the old 80s big ones they were loaded! 👍
Btw also the Elgrand was sitting on the FM-platform.
Even though they are from 2004 they look like something from 2010-2015 when you see them on the road amongst other vehicles.
Now that’s a nice car, understated.
Wouldn’t like to be paying for the petrol though.
I believe there's an aftermarket screen that auto logs in to your bank account, when you give it the beans Ha Ha
I can imagine in Japan it might have been a bit of a gangster motor
Really cool sleeper car! Most remiss of you not to issue the obligatory 'knees alert' warning at the start of the video, however! Lol.
I like large high powered estates - ideal for towing large caravans. I have a 184hp V6 Turbo diesel Vectra and makes a nice noise!!!
The double unicorn build on MCM was pretty sweet.
I borrow my buddy's Opel Insignia 1.9 turbodiesel aut now and then and it pulls extremely convincing.....
More Hoonage Mr Seabrook? You'll be compared to a certain Mr Johnny Smith next. Loved the car, great to see one of these in the UK. Thanks for your time and effort (Veyron next?)......
You can’t beat a Q car 🤗
Oh my god I saw one of these in Harlow today
I've driven the front wheel drive Maxima in the USA which has a 300bhp version of the VQ through a CVT (6 selected ratios like the Rover). Fabulous engine but with front drive you have to be awake and preferably in a straight line. Also managed 30mpg on a long run from DC to Virginia.
Looks rapid. I just can’t get away with Auto’s.
That rear is so Volvo!!