Unofficial GT-R Estate at Nagoya Show

Forget the RS6, this could be the ultimate fast load lugger.

Details of this Kids Heart tuner-built GT-R Estate are sketchy, but it is being shown at the Nagoya Autotrend show in Japan, and we think that it looks utterly brilliant.

The Skyline range has a rich history of estate cars packing GT-R mechanicals. In the past the basis for this odd mix was the Nissan Stagea, essentially an estate car based on the old Skyline platform. The basic chassis was almost identical to the GT-R coupe's, including its four-wheel drive system. It doesn't take a great leap of logic to see why the tuners thought a Stagea GT-R would be a bit of fun... And now with the 'not a Skyline' R35 GT-R and the new, completely unrelated, M35 Stagea, the always-innovative Japanese tuners have been forced to get a bit more creative.

The result is this Kids Heart R35 Wagon. As you can see, an entire GT-R front end has been grafted onto the nose of the new Stagea, while the front and rear arches have been slightly flaired and a GT-R aping bumper and quadruple exhausts have been fitted at the rear. There's no information on what's under the bonnet, but the chaps over at GTRblog reckon that this GT-R/Stagea hybrid is hiding a twin-turbo, stroked version of the 3.5-litre motor usually found in the Stagea.

from http://www.drivers-republic.com