The 160SR made people think it had 160hp. It did not.
Some cars are ugly to start with. Other cars have ugliness thrust upon them. Who said Bangle-era BMWs and current BMWs? Not us. The funny thing is though that even the ugliest cars enjoy a honeymoon period, usually at the beginning or end of their life cycle, when their looks are not actively hated by the majority of the population.
In fairness though, it wasn't all bad news. For a start, the K12 didn't look too terrible from the side, and for a second, or a couple of years in fact, Nissan made a sporty version that couldn't help but go a lot better than it looked. They called it the 160 SR, which made people think it had 160hp whereas in fact it only had 109. Where did the 160 come from then? Well, if you added a zero to it you got the cubic capacity of the engine, sort of, which was a lot less exciting.
When the 160 SR was new at a fiver under £10k it was up against plenty of other nippy superminis like the Panda 100HP, Swift Sport, Yaris T-Sport, 206 1.6 Sport and Cit C2 VTR/S, but it held its own in contemporary reviews. The 160 SR’s HR16DE variable valve timing engine was a detuned version of the one Renault used in the Twingo 133. It’s also featured in various Jukes and Qashqais.
If you felt that the chassis could handle more than 109hp, which it certainly could, minor tweaks on the inlet and exhaust would get you up to 120hp. Shed dimly remembers somebody in Greece chatting about a 150hp turbo kit but he can't recall if that ever happened. If it did, it might well have felt like Greece in the cabin because there wasn't much room in the SR's engine bay to start with even before you thought about wedging a red-hot turbine in there.
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