Nissan MID4

"Flat Six" (flat-six) 03/10/2015 at 09:00 • Filed to: Nissan, Matchbox, MID4, NSX

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My son has this ratty old toy car (Maisto) I had never pad much attention too. Today I got curious! It is actually a protoype midengine sportscar from Nissan called the MID4.

Jalopnik did a !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on it in the past, but I hadn't heard of it.

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It was originally developed in 1984 and exhibited at a few shows. It would have been a pretty awesome car for the time, but production costs were too expensive.

The updated Type II from 1987 had a sleeker look that I think would have been competitive with the NSX. It could produce 330 horsepower from a twin turbo V6.

It had a distinctive bump for the engine.

TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut > Flat Six 03/10/2015 at 09:03

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Oh God I remember this. A magazine I subscribe to run a competition every month for readers to identify a mystery car. The MID4 came up and because that month's prize was a Hayne's manual which are hard to come by in HK, I went berserk researching info about it and sent it in. Fortunately, I won x)

philipilihp > Flat Six 03/10/2015 at 09:36

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Obscure prototypes are awesome!! Good looking model, too! Play wear looks great on it.

Sn210 > Flat Six 03/10/2015 at 09:36

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very cool! I just got a 1/18 TVR Speed 12 that I learned I didn't know much about. I was thinking it was the Cerbera Speed 12 that everyone knows, but this was actually a prototype of it. It's a pretty interesting story

Flat Six > TwinCharged - Is Now UK Opponaut 03/10/2015 at 09:41

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Congratulations!!! Cool story

Flat Six > Sn210 03/10/2015 at 09:44

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Now there is a pretty model! Headlights are a bit scary, kind of like a 4C ;)

Flat Six > philipilihp 03/10/2015 at 09:46

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Yeah its good that these protoypes get a second life in diecast being enjoyed by many, even though they were never a production auto.

navyeagleeye86 > Flat Six 03/10/2015 at 09:57

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Wow, I have the same car but mine was from the old MC Toy days, '93-94 maybe :-)

Small Scale Sydney - Death before Decaf > Flat Six 03/10/2015 at 16:55

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The Maisto model is a copy of a Tomica casting. Heres mine, also not perfect, but they are hard to find.