Without badging, casual observers would be hard-pressed to guess the car being test-driven here in mid-August hails from Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.
Isn’t this the auto maker that clawed its way back to profitability and acclaim with bold, eye-catching styling, evident on the current-generation Altima and Infiniti G35?
Shiro Nakamura, Nissan’s global design chief who has risen to rock-star status in the auto industry, eschews the angular design language taking hold these days. He prefers sinuous, graceful lines.
But the rounded, jellybean-like styling of the new, sixth-generation Nissan Sentra, developed exclusively for North America, dates the car before it even goes on sale.
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