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Nissan’s vice-president of global product strategy, Ivan Espinosa, hinted that we could be seeing a hybrid version of the 400Z in the future.
He mentioned recently that they are planning on using hybrid powertrains for its sports cars and when he was asked about the 400Z he said "Well, I cannot give you details about the car now.” However, he also said, “What I can tell you is I still see space for two different things."
“Probably in the short term you can still see a bit more conventional technology coming. By conventional I mean maybe still ICE [internal combustion engine] driven, maybe with some electrification on the sports cars,”
This makes sense since hybrid technology seems to be the future of performance cars. Honda is already planning on doing it with the Civic Type-R.
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He mentioned recently that they are planning on using hybrid powertrains for its sports cars and when he was asked about the 400Z he said "Well, I cannot give you details about the car now.” However, he also said, “What I can tell you is I still see space for two different things."
“Probably in the short term you can still see a bit more conventional technology coming. By conventional I mean maybe still ICE [internal combustion engine] driven, maybe with some electrification on the sports cars,”
This makes sense since hybrid technology seems to be the future of performance cars. Honda is already planning on doing it with the Civic Type-R.

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