The Nissan NV200 is being billed as a mixture of van, commercial vehicle and a car, it still looks like a van though.
The NV200 is expected to be produced by Zhengzhou Nissan in 2009, and will come with a 1.6l gasoline engine, and a 1.5l diesel engine.
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Nissan made a nifty concept of this a couple of years back. Nice use of space.
http://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z14288/Nissan-NV200-Concept.aspx
it looks like its aimed directly at the small business owner or the hoodlum running DVDs from the hinterland to the urban metropolises of Beijing and Shanghai.
Hek