What if Nissan was right before everyone else?

One year ago, Nissan unveiled Concept 20-23, an exhilarating urban and sporty electric concept car. Since then, sporty electric cars have been proliferating.

The Nissan Concept 20-23 was designed by a team of engineers, with no constraints other than imagining the electric car they would like to drive. What’s fantastic with electric technology is that we can achieve almost unlimited power and torque figures at very low cost. 1,000 horsepower? Why not. Then, it’s about how to transmit this power to the road, and here all the technical expertise of a manufacturer like NISSAN really comes into play. If NISMO means nothing to you, know that it is the sports division of the Japanese brand, which has established itself on all the world’s top circuits. So, Nissan knows how to make sporty cars.

Over the past 12 months, Hyundai unveiled its Ioniq 5 N, Alpine is preparing its A290, MG launched its Roadster. A common point among these three cars: a vision of driving pleasure that is 100% electric. So, when will this 20-23 hit the roads to play with its little friends?

Because it has everything going for it, this Japanese car. The modernity of this playful little vehicle is inspired both by online racing and Nissan’s participation in Formula E. The bodywork with 3 doors and a hatch of the 20-23 Concept features extreme aerodynamic additions at the front and rear, with large side skirts that direct the airflow from the front of the car through vents to cool the brakes, then into extractors located right behind the front wheels. Well, not everything might pass homologation barriers, but it doesn’t matter; it looks ruthless!

Hard to not think of the Renault R5 Turbo 3E prototype when seeing the muscular side panels of the car, with generous wheel arches that encompass large wheels mounted with low-profile tires. But since Nissan and Renault have gone their separate ways, nothing now prevents a competitor to the R5 or the Alpine A290 from appearing.

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