Motor Trend Drives a 1971 Skyline 2000

The original Godzilla with the awesome fender mounted mirrors (how have these NOT made a comeback on modern cars?!?!) and in a classy silver-grey.

The car has been kept in meticulous condition though it is still a vehicle that is out and about which is great--all great cars deserve to be driven.

The owner estimates that it is worth in excess of $100K and I would bet that this figure is only going up at this point as classic Japanese steel is becoming more and more desirable.

Motor Trend Drives a 1971 Skyline 2000...

The IDx Lives!

The recently introduced at the Tokyo Auto Show Nissan IDx Freeflow and NISMO were evidently not just pretty shells.  After being brought over to the Detroit Auto Show they are now on a tour of Southern California.  This whole process is far beyond what you see with normal concept cars and Nissan has then taken things even further...

They delivered the concept cars to the Motor Trend folks and allowed them to be driven...OK, so it was only around a parking lot but still...This is something you never see with concept vehicles.  Nissan is bringing the cars around to a number of locations and events in the area continuing to gauge public interest.  It appears more and more likely that these are going the Juke route and will be put into production in the near future.

Motor Trend drives the IDx...