There’s a good chance that Nissan will be making a NISMO version of their recently revealed Pulsar hatch. They’re entering a market they’ve been absent from for a long time (nobody remembers the pre 2005 Almera…) and it’s a sector where all manufacturers also have a believable hot version of their car – even Kia has one now…

That’s why Autocar’s brief talk with Nissan’s Andy Palmer was quite revealing. Palmer said, in regards to a Pulsar NISMO, “It’s not something I’d like to confirm now, but would a C-segment hatch be the great place to have a Nismo? You might say so.”

Moreover, he went on to say that “Wherever you could imagine an S or GT grade in a passenger car line-up, we’ll have a NISMO. Generally speaking, we’ll have two levels of NISMO, this is very important because that was the original concept of NISMO, this democratisation of performance.”

They won’t stop there, though, and there will also be NISMO S and NISMO RS versions of the models, as well. So, maybe we’ll get two or maybe even three different hot Pulsars then?

By Andrei Nedelea

Thanks to RoadMag for the pics!

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