The wraps have come off the Nissan concept announced for Beijing – the Nissan Lannia Concept is the name of the sedan version of the Friend-ME concept that made its debut at Auto Shanghai last year.
Where the Friend-ME concept was aimed at Chinese males in their mid-20s, the Lannia has a wider-looking scope, built around China’s digital lifestyle and tailored very much towards the country’s rising ‘Post-80s’ balinghou generation.
It’s the second model to come about from Nissan’s Design China office in Beijing, working in close cooperation with the Nissan Global Design Centre in Kanagawa, Japan, under the leadership of Nissan senior VP and chief creative officer Shiro Nakamura.
Still, the ‘sedan theory-breaker’ is primarily a local effort, being “designed by Chinese, built by Chinese for the Chinese people, and ultimately, for the world,” according to chief planning officer Andy Palmer.
The car features signature trademarks of Nissan’s next-generation design. These include a V-motion grille, boomerang headlamps, a distinctive kick-up pillar as well as a “floating” roof.
Also announced at the car’s unveiling was its Chinese name, which is lan niao, yin xiang, in honour of the legendary Nissan Bluebird. Suitable exterior shade too, yes.
Live pix by Kwek Chai Li
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if this continues… nissan cars are getting exciting
Well done good job Japanese car!
Bluebird & Lannia in Hokkian would sound very interesting.
in fact their initial idea is to name the concept as Lanniao, but probably that is just a bit rude so they omitted the last character which is o, so it becomes “Lannia”.
LOL
great design concept and have very nice name, love to see soon.
This type of name cannot pakai in malaysia and spore.
I bought a Nissan Lanji*o. Chicks magnet.
Finally a car that din copy others…
Heck.. About time they got their game together.. They’ve been designing questionable cars for quite some time now..
Lannia? Lanniao better. LOL
Introducing the New Nissan Lan Jiao
Hokkien read as lanjiao lolz
possibly the next gen Almera out sometime in late 2015 or early 2016
Bluebird.. you mean.. lam jiao? lol
Stunning! Nissan, now u get my attention.
It is really call 蓝鸟 i seen them frequently in china.
Will Proton/Perodua come out with such a good design?
Nissan always has good looking concept car but ugly production car. Nissan , please follow mazda does on their concept !
How is your new car?
Just Lan Nia lah… how else….
Stunning cool! After all Nissan is not cacat in term of design, it just this will not happen at Malaysia, making Mazda still look good.
fluidic sculpture