This is the six-speed, twin-turbo NISSAN Z PROTO and I have A LOT to say about it 

I kinda like the simplicity. Also amazed the designers didnt put on a single fake vent is a huge plus.

I think nissan made such great job with the direction for this z. Instantly recognisable as Japanese car

That rear end is so clean. 10/10

In most markets a front number plate is required, that will change the way the grill looks.

*This car defines the principle of "Less is More".🚙*

I love the look of the car, but if I were to buy it I'd def modify that grille, assuming that this is the final look of the car

Toyota, are you taking notes? This is how you should have treated the Supra.

*I was hoping you to analyse this gem*

would love to see how it would look if the rectangle was split like the original z.

This thing just curses the whole time and so that’s it’s censor bar

Remember that front bumper gonna have a number plate tho

Unpopular opinion: I LOVE the simple grille

My only gripes: - Rectangle front grill - 370z interior door handles The rest is just

The front of the vehicle starts to grow on me. I actually like the simplicity design of the new Z. I'm super happy they're offering a manual version unlike the new supra (BMW).

This car has an alternate name: perfection

I think ford and Nissan are on to something with retro styling. Im hoping to see more.

16:33 looks amazing! Much more refined than the press pics

How does the 400Z meet regulations without a front bumper? I don’t think the front end of that car is going to look like it does now.

This is the car I waited for years, it's rear is sooo insane..

that grill really grows on you. I love as it continues the cars use of hard lines. this is cutting edge design in my opinion

Agreed, I am not even the biggest fan of Nissan or Toyota but to this day the Datsun 240 Z and Toyota 2000 GT are some of favourite designs of any car, period. That said when I look at this concept. I do see the 240Z nods but I don't know that I like it. I don't hate it but I can't work out what's not working here. Perhaps it might be the grille. Edit: I think I know what it is. The car is a little stocky in comparison. I feel like if it was squashed down a bit. Or widend out a bit, it would be much better. Honestly I love the side and above profiles but I think it's mostly from the front like head on. It just looks tact on a bit. Maybe if they just did a bit more with the grille. Like pulled and curved out the front a bit more as opposed to the more abrupt looking ending. Edit: True to form both of your redesigns have instantly done enough to complete it for me much better. I hope Nissan takes notes..

God I hope Nissan watches this video the design is so close to being perfect those minor touches you made really take it to 100%

I liked that first redesign smh but the second is pretty good as well, this is quite a special car, really starting to like it

This 20 min video could easily be shortened to one sentence: «look up Aston Martin Vantage Lime Green» Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!

The competition this car will bring to the car industry is something we aren’t ready for

*NISSAN, THANK YOUUUUU* for not doing what Toyota and almost every other manufacturer did. Thank you for *keeping the soul* of the Z.

I was hoping you to analyse this gem 🙌🏻

The rectangle without any fuss is great. I love the simplicity of it, and it really makes it stand out among the more fussy designs that are common today.

I liked the first redesign 😁 either way I'm stoked at my age now I can own a homage to the original 240 that I loved as a child. I will be getting the Yellow aswell!

I absoutely LOVE this design! The car almost looks like it has an aftermarket body kit. The tire letters also add an extra layer of fun and uniqueness. Can't wait for the production version.

Thankyou Sketchmonkey for skipping over the specs and talking about the design ♥️ and I think this car is so beautiful yet that square is a menace 😂 but in some angles it looks really good.

I really like the front I dont get why everyone Is up in arms I think it's very beautiful and is very reminiscent of the 240z

Was waiting for this!!

I've never wanted a car as much as i want this one. The styling is just so simple and beautiful they really knocked it out of the park for me. I'll take the grill as it sits no issues for me.

Love the design modification! I hope someone from Nissan sees this!

The critique on the front facia is spot on. It’s the same first impression I had - that it needed a bumper bar for the eyes to focus and rest on.

i actually like the square grill

I like the square grill, looks functional and gives the impression that the entire front of the radiator is getting the maximum amount of airflow.

I love the new Z 😁 and the simple changes you made sir are amazing.

I love it from the first moment I saw it, ESPECIALLY the rectangular air intake in the front.

That grill is atrocious, it throws off the whole car which is quite beautiful btw inside and out... Your redesign makes it look much more cohesive Great vid!! 👏🏾👌🏾👏🏾✊🏾

Can always count on you to be real about these designs and provide a good breakdown. Keep it up man🙌🏼

I love everything about this car beside the grill

I think this new Z is absolutely beautiful the designers did a great job.

I honestly don't think I'd change a thing. I love that they went so clean and simple in the styling - especially for a Japanese design today, and especially for Nissan. No gimmick, no reliance on extraneous details that shouldn't be there.

I had the same observation. Easy fix is to color the lower half to get a sleeker front grill - body color perhaps or diff material.

This car will give the new BMW... ahh...Toyota Supra a really hard time!

This is the first modern car I would actually want to own in a long time. I actually really like it's design how it is, I hope more modern cars will have a similar design philosophy in the future.

Honestly, I don't know if I speak for a lot of people when I say I don't know where to begin or how to even feel about this design, so I am really looking forward to your thoughts on it but for me I just don't know what to think about this design. it's just too different.

Am I literally the only person that wouldn't really change anything about this Concept? I love the shape, the simplicity, the lines, the graphics and... yes... The rectangle

Actually, love the design NICE

To me,it still blessed to know nissan still remember about their Z car

Everyone: We will get the Nissan in 2021... Europe: Am I a Joke to you?

I honestly like your first sketch and think it holds to the original design really well! As for the bumper that was only ever on the American version of the car and it does look a bit odd without it, but overall most people bought a bumper ‘chin’ style splitter to break up the nose of the car and in my opinion that looks like that first sketch you made which I love!

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Bro your first fix is perfect in my opinion. It looks even more reminiscent of the older model

First time here - I really enjoyed your take. I appreciate a technical artist's perspective. My initial reaction wasn't very exciting but after sleeping on it I think it's brilliant. To me, a Z32 300zx owner and fan, this looks like a worthy successor to MY car, but with lines closer to the 240 which is very exciting. Not to disparage the 350/370, but I've never been remotely interested. I was hoping you'd try adding something like the front bumper from the 240, even if it was a just a split in the intake. Also, as much as I *hate* to admit it because I really like the z32-inspired lights out back, someone 'shopped this and I think it looks SO good: imgur.com/a/jU8vGeH

Kudos to Nissan for their bravery to bring back the Z! And you improved on the design which is already dead-drop gorgeous! 👍👍👍

I almost threw up when I saw this. =o(

The front grill has grown on me, I love it now

No the square is perfect , the bumper clearance is the same a the last z it’s stretched down

They actually didn’t call it a concept. They explicitly said it isn’t a concept. They called it a “prototype”. However, that doesn’t mean this car is production ready. There still is a MASSIVE amount of testing and tweaking the car needs to go through. This car won’t be in showrooms until after the Nissan Ariya arrives in showrooms in the fall of 2021. The earliest we could see the 400z on dealers lots is 2022.

ㅇㅁㅇ lmao

Love the design of the Z Proto. Nailed the proportions, continuous lines and themes, and didn't add superfluous styling elements just for "aggression" or add in random fake vents/lines like the Supra. This car will age very gracefully

I really like the design. I think the grill is daring in a good way and really stands out in today's market.

Finally, the sketch monkey knows how to get things done. The front grill should be necesarily trimmed down to make front fascia looks pleasant in the eyes.

This car gives me hope for the future of not just sports car design but also automobile design as a whole

I'm also a car designer as you. I agree with most of the things you said but I also like the original theme. As you know, the Nissan designers and leadership has been seen this model in full size for more than a year and I'm 100% sure that something very similar to your proposal has been presented as a "safe current" execution. Not counting the hundreds of sketches they had produced until they got to this point. The raw rectangle in the front is different and unexpected, creates a sort of "something is missing" but at the same time gives the car a signature and you end up liking it after seeing it day by day. Awesome job done by Nissan, but I will keep my 350z for a while as it never gets old....:)

تصميم جميل من نيسان ، صراحةً مثل ما قال سكيتش مونكي أنه من الرائع أنهم أستمروا على نفس النهج في تصميم موديلات Z ، و لم يلحقوا ترند الموضه الحاصل الأن في تصميم السيارات ، all the best Sketch monkey your fan from Saudi Arabia.

I was waiting for this since I saw the stream and the video,the rectangle grill is my only real problem, but the rear is sooo nice. Overall very clean design I like it.

Thats it bro, ur hired for the Z design team! ur renders look Fantastic! small changes that add to a more Finished look, thats the right word for it...the lines looked clean but unfinished...ur detail really makes a Huge difference for the better... Hopefully nissan is paying attention preproduction and will take feedback to heart.

Let's just appreciate the fact that Nissan made a new sports car after 11 years with manual transmission and no electric motors in it. The car is very well designed, despite not being 100% perfect. Comparing it with the new BMWs or Mercs with oversized grilles or lights put in weird angles, this looks like the heaven of 2020s car design. Totally loved it.

I dont know why but I realy like the grill and the overall look of the front. Might be because it doesn't look like its gonna kill you like every other new car these days.

I love it. The front might not be the most popular but personally I really like it and how it has so many old design ques from the old versions.

As a previous owner of three z cars I am happy to see Nissan has taken this step but your sketches at the beginning of your video represent a much better appearance from all angles.

so clean, no extra graphics. iconic and beautiful

I LOVE the simplicity of this Z Proto design, and I don't think your redesign did any favours to the grille. I just want the bottom corners of the grille to come inwards a bit, and maybe the top corners to be slightly more rounded like on the 370Z. That way, it's not a rectangle, and visually fades away towards the bottom like on the 240Z. And I want the headlights to be perfect almond shapes (vesica piscis) and only have two 'corners', removing the inner ones above the top DRL LED. Other than that I REALLY like this design, glad to see it on this channel and hats off to Nissan for a job well done!

The regulation about the vertical projection of the front bumper is due to pedestrian safety, when you hit someone at knee level it is now required that you also take them at the ankle, so it's a more "even" impact, that can be quite easily solved here with a color separation, but then it will also look at bit more like the new vantage, where you only have the top half of the bumper visible.

Maserati, Nissan and Ford are making some real progress and i love it.

Love your show! I watched the premier live and liked the Proto overall. The grill was a turnoff instantly though. Looks like my toaster oven waiting for a pizza. So I thought, throw a transition bar across the front or at least across the corners too break up the visuals of black hole. Even a neutral color on the grill would help. The grill distrupts the visual balance of the car overall, as does the extra sharp corner behind the rear wheel. I simplified my silver 350Z back in 2004, removed front emblem, molded mud guards, never added anything to it other than flushed out SF Winning Volks and linear CFLs in place of the front reflectors, LEDs were not quite there yet. I've always received nice compliments... Keep up the great design work!

Upon first glance the grill was a shock to my eyes, but I think it will be more appreciated in person. There are some pictures that are doing it some slight justice, but I think in the flesh more people will get it. After seeing your alterations it actually made me appreciate its simplicity and helped my eyes see that it plays to the overall clean and simple look as well as adds an understated boldness to it. So I guess it's officially grown on me. Lol BUT, I was hoping you would go more in depth about the overall design and success points. I for one LOVE the magic they created with the side sills! I think that small detail along with the rear bumper trick sets of the understated aggressiveness of the car from the side and front 3/4 views.

Wow it looks a thousand times better with your photo shop work dang what a huge difference

I think Nissan could do a lot to break up the front grill by giving those little rounded rectangles in the grill some body-color pinstriping. You could see that they gave those little ports a silver finish, so they don't completely disappear in the dark void of that big rectangle grill, but I don't think it's enough. Maybe full chrome pinstriping could work to brighten them up, but I think body-color would be a bit more modern.

the original design looks great enough but it is the little retouch that makes it perfect!!! nissan should see this!!!!

I like the front. It makes it look absolutely unique in a world of fake vents. The back looks amazingly retro with the tail lights and the elongated black bar. Also, wouldn't smoother lines by the sides make it faster, since there's less sharp surfaces to cut through the air? Meaning the air would just slide past it?

That front grill is great I dont know why people dislike it. It's a reference to the 240z and the 350z it's so good

Perfection is not achieved when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away

Side view: amazing. Rear view: amazing. Wishing Nismo can fix that weird front facia!!

I love what Nissan has done to the new Z it's a perfect hybrid of traditional and modern design. The front is a great example of Form and Function just imagine the airflow through the engine. Nissan and Ford have been on point on their designs for modern Twist on Old designs.

What that grille needs is a subtle, brushed aluminum bar going about 3/4 of the way across it, just below centerline. It can emulate that roofline metal.

I love this car! I like how it's aggressive without looking angry. It's so clean, sleek, elegant, with a subtle muscular look at the same time. The profile view is incredible, obviously reminiscent of the 240z. I actually don't mind the grille, I agree it could be tweaked a bit but I don't know if I would go as far as adding additional intakes, I do really like how clean the original design is.

100% agree on your modifications and this was my first instinct as well as a former 300ZX and 370Z owner. It's like the front of the 300ZX, the side vents break up the front bumper a bit and adds visual interest. I wish you would address the rear, I'm getting too much of a Ford Mustang vibe with that light bar.

I remember seeing the 240Z back in the day at Anderson motor co. It was love at first sight. The new one also!

To all the people who are complaining, literally stfu be glad there’s a new GOOD sport car and enjoy it, there are countries that will never get it and people that would kill to have it. I’m in love with the concept and the first redesing looks good too! Can’t wait to see the final product

I love how simple and clean this car looks, just like the 90s 300ZX. This design is kinda like what Apple would make if they design a car.

I really like the perfect rectangle front grille of the car. It gives the car more personality, it makes it stand out the current trend of cars. I believe that car's personality>overall looks. As you said on your Lucid Air video, an art should be a bit infuriating.

The looks are amazing, the lines reminisces the 240 Z, interior is spot on and unbelievably polished. The big gaping hole at the front needs refining and I know they won't leave as is. Nissan has a good come back investment on their hands. They need it, badly! Next: the GT R

If they ran a bar across the front grille it would be a nod towards the 240/280 Datsuns as well as break up the monotony of the square. Just under where the smaller square vents end and the larger ones start. 2:04 for reference. 1 1/2" to 2" tops. Color matched or chrome. Maybe something that is removable. I don't mind the way it looks personally, and a lot of people are saying it's perfect for an intercooler. I'm very excited for this car. I hope it performs well.

I like the design, even the square front. It makes it unique. I'm really glad they are making this with a manual transmission (you hear me, Supra?)

You fixed it. That was pretty much the only thing wrong with the design. Perfect! Really hope Nissan takes some cues from your design.