Hot on the heels of the all-new X-Trail and Juke EV model reveals at the Nissan Vision Event is a teaser for the next-generation Nissan Skyline. No, not a Skyline GT-R—the GT-R has long been its own thing, and the all-new iteration is a bit further down the road. We’re talking about the Japan-only sedan that’s been carrying the nameplate since 1957.
This will be the 14th generation of Nissan’s legacy four-door; the current generation has been around since 2014. All the teaser material so far draws from that legacy, but not quite in the way BMW’s Neue Klasse does. Alfonso Albaisa, global design director for Nissan, already stated last year that the new Skyline would be “inspired by the past,” but not a “retro-styling exercise.”
Teaser for the next-generation Nissan Skyline:
The new Skyline’s face is heavily obscured in the teaser, but we can trace an angular front end. Using the vertical light elements and body lines as a guide, you can roughly make out where the headlights go.
It’s got a bit of a frowning character to it, like the 10th-generation Skylines (aka the base of the legendary R34). I might be looking way too deep into the teaser render, but the fascia also appears to flare out at the headlights, as with the third-gen ‘Hakosuka’ tailing it in the trailer.
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Also, the hood doesn’t wear the typical Nissan roundel—there’s a classic Skyline emblem in its place. It most resembles the one found on the 10th-generation cars, but a bit more squared off.
The rear quarter proudly wears the Skyline script wordmark—in the same spot the fourth- and fifth-gen Skylines wore their script badges. This style of branding hasn’t been seen often since Nissan began to use sans-serif typefaces for branding.
The circular taillights, one of the Skyline’s signature elements, also make a return here. More recent generations of the Skyline have relegated the red circles behind wedges of glass, but this teaser suggests Nissan is letting them take a more prominent role in shaping the next generation’s rear profile.
That’s all that’s been revealed for this announcement, but it’s more than enough to drum up hype. Even if the next-gen Skyline will be exclusively for the Japanese market, Nissan fans will be glad to finally see the aging current Skyline get a long-overdue update.
Along with the other reveals at the Nissan Vision Event, the Skyline is just one part of the Japanese carmaker’s master plan for a comeback after a challenging past few years. Let’s see how it plays out for the Japanese automaker—stay tuned.
