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Capable of seating five adults, the Boga was created to interpret a 1990’s city vehicle with driver comfort and convenience in mind. The interior features spacious front and rear bench seating, auto-closing doors, and a solar-powered ventilation system. A 1.5-liter engine powers it.
The Boga was a bit of a show-off from Nissan at the 1989 Tokyo Motor Show. Japan was way at the upper reaches of its bubble economy back then, and it had recently finished a new exhibition center for its top car companies to show whatever the damn hell they wanted. Japan's carmakers went nuts and built all kinds of cars that never made production, all probably million-dollar exercises just to show off, as a book on the period, Comeback: The Fall & Rise of the American Automobile Industry remembers.
So the Boga never went into production, and as the most insignificant of the one, two, three, four, five concept cars Nissan debuted at the '89 Tokyo show, it has been quickly forgotten.
First of all, look at it. Look at it! The thing looks like a dachshund puppy. It's all long in the middle with its minute wheel-legs at its corners.
The Boga was supposed to be a city car of the 1990s, so it was small. The Boga did come with a truly minute 1.5-liter engine so that the whole car couldn't have been much bigger than a modestly-sized rabbit enclosure.
The interior was unbelievably minimalist. I mean, shockingly minimal. There are retro-patterned seats, a simple digital set of readouts ahead of the blank steering wheel, and a set of audio and air/con system controls between the seats. This is something you'd see in a current concept car.
That's all. It looks like a furniture store in the hipster part of town. It looks like a fancy playground. It looks like someone stabbed an art gallery.
Nissan wanted the standout feature of the car to be its doors, which is something of a major plot point in today's concept cars. The Chrysler Portal that debuted yesterday was designed around its doors, suicide in the back and unbroken by a b-pillar.
The Boga had the same feature, using a fingerprint scanner to open without a key, recognizing the driver individually, and needing no standout door handles.
Engine & performance:
Position: front
Type: 4-cylinder, 12-valve
Capacity: 1497 cc
Power: 97 hp @ 6000 rpm
Torque: 129 Nm @ 4400 rpm
Dimensions:
Length: 3720 mm
Width: 1760 mm
Height: 1330 mm
Wheelbase: 2600 mm
Source: www.conceptnissan.com; autoutro.ru
Images: Nissan; Concept Car Central
