The Nissan IDx is a 2-door coupé from Nissan, built from 2013, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: 1.2 . David Beasley / Nissan Design Europe + Global Nissan Design Center drew it.
The story
The Nissan IDx is a concept car introduced at the 2013 Tokyo Motor Show by Nissan. It is supposedly inspired by the Datsun 510. The IDx is Nissan's answer to the "RWD tuner craze" that is ongoing and a direct competitor to the Hyundai Genesis coupe & Scion FRS/Subaru BRZ.
The IDx is aimed at young buyers and racing gamers alike. A few quirks the car has that might not make production are the "side view mirrors" that are designed to be cameras rather than traditional mirrors as well as the side-exit exhaust. There is a possibility that Nissan is building more IDx concepts because there are numbers (003 and 004) instead of 001 and 002 on each of the concepts. With Nissan's looming decision to discontinue several current models such as the Quest, Xterra, Cube and possibly the Juke there is expected room in Nissan's lineup for a new entry-level sports car.
What is underneath
Power comes from 1.2 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 2900 lb. It shifts through a 6-speed manual / CVT. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Datsun 510 (spiritual). Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Infiniti Q50, the Tesla Model X, the Mazda CX-5 — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Nissan catalogue sit the Nissan N6 and the Nissan N7.