Nissan Stagea is a Japanese passenger car of the middle or upper middle class, the so-called station wagon type, which was first presented to the general public in 1996. Its serial production started the same year and lasted until 2007. It was concentrated by the manufacturer in the cities of Musashimurayama and Tochigi in Japan. In the Nissan Motor Company offer, it was replaced by the Skyline Crossover model.
The Stagea model had no direct predecessor in the Nissan Group’s offer and was created as the company’s response to the Subaru Legacy Touring car. In order to simplify production and significantly accelerate development work, it was decided to use a huge number of components and elements known from the Skyline and Laurel cars in the new model. Three generations of the Nissan Stagea were created. The first was produced in the years 1996-2001 and externally it closely resembled the Nissan Skyline R34. It was offered with four types of engines with a capacity of 2.0 to 2.6 litres. The second generation was created in parallel with the first in the years 1998-2001. It differed from it in a raised body and marginally changed styling. Finally, the third generation went on sale in 2001. It had a clearly improved design – both of the body and the interior – offered engines with a larger displacement (from 2.5 to 3.5 litres) and used a different gearbox.
