What is it?
Fox Marketing Nissan Altima Coupe
What's special about it?
Last year's 270-horsepower, sapphire-blue Versa was a pretty tough act to follow, but Fox Marketing has managed to turn up the heat — and the horsepower — for Nissan's 2007 SEMA Show display with a white-hot Altima coupe.
Once your eyes adjust to the blazing white BASF-RM paint job highlighted with black accents, the focus is on the unique mesh-type 20-inch Privat NEV wheels. They feature a silver-painted center with a polished lip, and they're wrapped in serious road-handling rubber in the form of 245/30R20 Toyo T1R tires. Speaking of serious equipment, lurking behind each wheel is a 13-inch brake rotor carrying a four-piston caliper from AP Racing, a setup executed by Brake Pros.
Imparting the coupe's aggressive attitude (and altitude) is a ride height that's 1.8 inches lower, courtesy of Performance Springs. Up front, the coupe wears a custom-fitted front spoiler from Extreme Dimensions.
Turbochargers.com did the engine build, so things are even more aggressive under the hood. The 3.5-liter VQ-Series V6 is fitted with a turbo kit by Artisan Performance that consists of a Turbonetics GTK650 turbo, an Evolution wastegate, Raptor blow-off valve and a ginormous (26 by 10 by 3 inches) intercooler. But wait. There are a lot more power-producing goodies stuffed under the hood from Artisan Performance, including a fuel rail with 650cc injectors, new crank pulley and high-capacity oil lines. In fact, once all of these performance- and reliability-enhancing items have taken up residence in the engine room, the battery had to be relocated using a special kit also supplied by Artisan Performance.
Eventually all those boost-inducing fumes must exit, and making sure they do so as freely as possible is an Artisan Performance 3-inch, turbo-back exhaust system. Fox Marketing claims the entire setup puts out more than 450 horsepower.
The driver of this coupe benefits from more than a big boost in performance. Black leather upholstery accented by red stitching trims the racing seats from Yonaka Racing, while STRI 60mm boost, oil pressure and exhaust-gas temperature gauges provide important information. Of course, besides the engine, the audio system also benefits from increased boost courtesy of Rockford Fosgate.
What's Edmunds' take?
The 350Z is not the only coupe in the lineup that Nissan feels has serious high-performance potential. — Patrick Paternie, Contributor
Fox Marketing Nissan Altima Coupe
What's special about it?
Last year's 270-horsepower, sapphire-blue Versa was a pretty tough act to follow, but Fox Marketing has managed to turn up the heat — and the horsepower — for Nissan's 2007 SEMA Show display with a white-hot Altima coupe.
Once your eyes adjust to the blazing white BASF-RM paint job highlighted with black accents, the focus is on the unique mesh-type 20-inch Privat NEV wheels. They feature a silver-painted center with a polished lip, and they're wrapped in serious road-handling rubber in the form of 245/30R20 Toyo T1R tires. Speaking of serious equipment, lurking behind each wheel is a 13-inch brake rotor carrying a four-piston caliper from AP Racing, a setup executed by Brake Pros.
Imparting the coupe's aggressive attitude (and altitude) is a ride height that's 1.8 inches lower, courtesy of Performance Springs. Up front, the coupe wears a custom-fitted front spoiler from Extreme Dimensions.
Turbochargers.com did the engine build, so things are even more aggressive under the hood. The 3.5-liter VQ-Series V6 is fitted with a turbo kit by Artisan Performance that consists of a Turbonetics GTK650 turbo, an Evolution wastegate, Raptor blow-off valve and a ginormous (26 by 10 by 3 inches) intercooler. But wait. There are a lot more power-producing goodies stuffed under the hood from Artisan Performance, including a fuel rail with 650cc injectors, new crank pulley and high-capacity oil lines. In fact, once all of these performance- and reliability-enhancing items have taken up residence in the engine room, the battery had to be relocated using a special kit also supplied by Artisan Performance.
Eventually all those boost-inducing fumes must exit, and making sure they do so as freely as possible is an Artisan Performance 3-inch, turbo-back exhaust system. Fox Marketing claims the entire setup puts out more than 450 horsepower.
The driver of this coupe benefits from more than a big boost in performance. Black leather upholstery accented by red stitching trims the racing seats from Yonaka Racing, while STRI 60mm boost, oil pressure and exhaust-gas temperature gauges provide important information. Of course, besides the engine, the audio system also benefits from increased boost courtesy of Rockford Fosgate.
What's Edmunds' take?
The 350Z is not the only coupe in the lineup that Nissan feels has serious high-performance potential. — Patrick Paternie, Contributor
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