Nissan Stagea RS4 Review! The GTR Wagon

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ennissan's philosophy of building cars has changed so much over the years but one era was particularly interesting everything from luxury sports sedans like the nissan laurel the nissan sofiro and then the legendary godzilla that was the nissan skyline there was another one that was the odd one out the nissan stagia is in a way a cousin of all these cars i just mentioned this one in particular is the rs4 which had an rb25det it had all-wheel drive and some staging models even had 4-way steering it had a confetti like interior and you could even r-34 swap the front end so as an american who had never seen the stagia in person and only online i always kind of said to myself so is that kind of a gtr wagon and what is it like to drive well let's go for a drive and let's talk all about it before we get started with today's video i just want to give a huge thanks to today's sponsor keeps two out of three guys will experience hair loss by the time they're 35. 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your hair needs delivered straight to your door hair loss stops with keeps to get a special offer on keeps treatments go to keeps.com that dude in blue or click the link in the description that's k-e-e-p-s dot com slash that dude in blue all right nissan stagia so quiet today ladies and gentlemen we are in a nissan stagia rs4 now the stagia is a really interesting car if you are not familiar with it now they just became legal in the united states i'm talking in january of 2022. this one has an rb25 in it it made mid 200 horsepower this is an automatic transmission single turbo r25 and it is just a mom mobile but this feels like a really nice car the very first time i saw the stagio was actually on one of my shows i've created called judged by that dude in blue where you guys submitted your emails of your cars all the way around the world and i gave my opinion on them it was a ton of fun i thought about bringing the series back not quite sure yet the first time i saw one though was an r34 swapped front-end one and i was like what is that i need to know what that is and after that i've been looking for one ever since but found one here in dallas thanks to gateway glass of cars huge thanks to them for letting me drive their stagia absolutely love it so the interior is really cool it has almost this kind of confetti vibe like a lot of the old nissans duke i just love the vibe of these 90s cars along with that we also have a minion block vhs tape into beanie babies and a princess diana freaking magazine in the back from time magazine but you get in it it has this really nice 90s theme to it but the stagia is a very quiet car unmodified get a little bit of turbo noise just a smidge it has a good seating position the visibility is fantastic i don't feel intimidated whatsoever driving this thing there is yeah there's like no sound i'm trying to get this thing to act to fool but it is it's not working out here but right hand drive the front of it is still very sports car like right it still has a presence to it or more of like a vip car the back of it is straight mo mobile straight mama wagon still has all-wheel drive it's really not as floaty as you would imagine i thought it was going to be kind of floaty kind of going like this it's this wagon mobile but it's very comfortable there's plenty of room tons of storage space and there's even this thing you can pull out to prevent scuffing the paint or basically hurting the trunk space so you can pick something up it has this guard essentially i had to avoid a bird it almost hit my windshield i love this green color on it it's very classy then you get in the car and you look at the door panels with the kind of rainbow stitching everything in here is all original this car is bone stock and i kind of wanted to do a baseline versus a modified one which i'm sure eventually i'll run into a modified one side note if you have one email me i'd love to do a modified one but this has the automatic gearbox and you look down and it has a button on it that says power 80 and then snow so you can switch between them so if i need snow mode i hit snow mode and the cars character changes a little bit but if i hit power it prioritizes you know the power he uses a lot of the same materials as the r32 skyline r33 skyline it's a much nicer car than the 240sx is inside at least the s13 s14 was kind of similar to this as well the back seat has plenty of room in the back that's not the issue at all trunk space is great and it's just a looker man slow down oh okay big bog so when i got on it it had a real good power band and then it just went all the way back down there's definitely a big difference it i just hit the wipe i do that every time so basically every time i drive right hand drive i accidentally hit the wipers instead of the blinker and still to do this day all right so with the all-wheel drive system let's see what this thing's got three two one full sin there it goes hubble yeah it goes under 5000 rpm after that all right yeah that was once it got going it was pretty quick but yeah that that first to second or whatever the second to third it just completely dies off you have real good acceleration at first and then it just completely bogs if you had some shorter gearing this thing would be pretty pretty amazing for how big this thing is the brakes are also very good as well all right let's try to do something here it's so quiet you just can't get anything out of this rv like it's so quiet it doesn't even sound like an rv but i get it this was not meant to be like some hot boy race cars but to be comfortable and practical but i'm sure seeing these things when they get really fast is a really cool sight to see so if i were to compare this to the laurel i think this is nicer if i were to compare to the safaro i think this is nicer it's very user friendly okay here we go we're hitting some bumps it's definitely built more for comfort it feels like but it definitely feels nicer than the laurel feels nicer than the safiro it definitely was a little bit more ahead of its time i just wish that i wish we got this car it would have been really cool to see what the american aftermarket would have done with this thing but these are now fully legal and now i think we're going to see a lot of really neat mods and vip cars stuff out of this i would much rather see people make these fast and make them kind of stance cars on bags or something but on bags you have to admit this thing would look really good the stagia is one of those cars that when you pull up to a gas station people go i have no idea what that is one since we never got them they have no idea that it has a performance car lineage and they're like no way that makes no sense yeah nissan had a really cool idea with this thing and they executed it very well yeah that first gear is so exciting and that it's just like nothing i got nothing left dude it also shows how far turbo technology has come to since then there we go okay so if i give it like a little bit of like a halfway halfway throttle response about 50 percent you'll get a lot more turbo noise you'll hear it spooling up and kind of a little blow-off actuator oh okay get this thing having to add a lot of throttle modulation brakes are fantastic though like stay with me stagia it's so calm i don't even know what to think on that note bone stock nissan stagia excited that i got to drive it excited that they're here in the united states now what do you guys think about the stadia as a platform do you think it has potential to be seen in the united states or do you think you would just go get a skyline instead i think a lot of people would have a hard time choosing between this and say a skyline or something along those lines on that note i upload on tuesdays thursdays and sundays and i will see you guys next time and take it easy have a wonderful day goodbye younissan's philosophy of building cars has changed so much over the years but one era was particularly interesting everything from luxury sports sedans like the nissan laurel the nissan sofiro and then the legendary godzilla that was the nissan skyline there was another one that was the odd one out the nissan stagia is in a way a cousin of all these cars i just mentioned this one in particular is the rs4 which had an rb25det it had all-wheel drive and some staging models even had 4-way steering it had a confetti like interior and you could even r-34 swap the front end so as an american who had never seen the stagia in person and only online i always kind of said to myself so is that kind of a gtr wagon and what is it like to drive well let's go for a drive and let's talk all about it before we get started with today's video i just want to give a huge thanks to today's sponsor keeps two out of three guys will experience hair loss by the time they're 35. and with keeps you can get quality expert care without ever visiting a doctor office or pharmacy keeps offers clinically proven research back treatments to stop hair loss and improve hair growth all keeps treatment plans are dr recommended and delivered straight to your door and about half the cost of a traditional pharmacy and keeps us 24 7 care and support keeps us a network of expert medical advisors prescribers and care specialists to support you in making your hair loss goals a reality and each treatment plan comes with a full year of unlimited messaging so you can connect with your prescribing doctor about anything at any time and keeps us focused on finding a routine that works for you whether you're looking to prevent hair loss stimulate hair growth or just take better care of your hair that you have keeps has you covered and keeps physicians will help you select the right products and treatments for your specific condition and your hair goals and keeps provides everything that your hair needs delivered straight to your door hair loss stops with keeps to get a special offer on keeps treatments go to keeps.com that dude in blue or click the link in the description that's k-e-e-p-s dot com slash that dude in blue all right nissan stagia so quiet today ladies and gentlemen we are in a nissan stagia rs4 now the stagia is a really interesting car if you are not familiar with it now they just became legal in the united states i'm talking in january of 2022. this one has an rb25 in it it made mid 200 horsepower this is an automatic transmission single turbo r25 and it is just a mom mobile but this feels like a really nice car the very first time i saw the stagio was actually on one of my shows i've created called judged by that dude in blue where you guys submitted your emails of your cars all the way around the world and i gave my opinion on them it was a ton of fun i thought about bringing the series back not quite sure yet the first time i saw one though was an r34 swapped front-end one and i was like what is that i need to know what that is and after that i've been looking for one ever since but found one here in dallas thanks to gateway glass of cars huge thanks to them for letting me drive their stagia absolutely love it so the interior is really cool it has almost this kind of confetti vibe like a lot of the old nissans duke i just love the vibe of these 90s cars along with that we also have a minion block vhs tape into beanie babies and a princess diana freaking magazine in the back from time magazine but you get in it it has this really nice 90s theme to it but the stagia is a very quiet car unmodified get a little bit of turbo noise just a smidge it has a good seating position the visibility is fantastic i don't feel intimidated whatsoever driving this thing there is yeah there's like no sound i'm trying to get this thing to act to fool but it is it's not working out here but right hand drive the front of it is still very sports car like right it still has a presence to it or more of like a vip car the back of it is straight mo mobile straight mama wagon still has all-wheel drive it's really not as floaty as you would imagine i thought it was going to be kind of floaty kind of going like this it's this wagon mobile but it's very comfortable there's plenty of room tons of storage space and there's even this thing you can pull out to prevent scuffing the paint or basically hurting the trunk space so you can pick something up it has this guard essentially i had to avoid a bird it almost hit my windshield i love this green color on it it's very classy then you get in the car and you look at the door panels with the kind of rainbow stitching everything in here is all original this car is bone stock and i kind of wanted to do a baseline versus a modified one which i'm sure eventually i'll run into a modified one side note if you have one email me i'd love to do a modified one but this has the automatic gearbox and you look down and it has a button on it that says power 80 and then snow so you can switch between them so if i need snow mode i hit snow mode and the cars character changes a little bit but if i hit power it prioritizes you know the power he uses a lot of the same materials as the r32 skyline r33 skyline it's a much nicer car than the 240sx is inside at least the s13 s14 was kind of similar to this as well the back seat has plenty of room in the back that's not the issue at all trunk space is great and it's just a looker man slow down oh okay big bog so when i got on it it had a real good power band and then it just went all the way back down there's definitely a big difference it i just hit the wipe i do that every time so basically every time i drive right hand drive i accidentally hit the wipers instead of the blinker and still to do this day all right so with the all-wheel drive system let's see what this thing's got three two one full sin there it goes hubble yeah it goes under 5000 rpm after that all right yeah that was once it got going it was pretty quick but yeah that that first to second or whatever the second to third it just completely dies off you have real good acceleration at first and then it just completely bogs if you had some shorter gearing this thing would be pretty pretty amazing for how big this thing is the brakes are also very good as well all right let's try to do something here it's so quiet you just can't get anything out of this rv like it's so quiet it doesn't even sound like an rv but i get it this was not meant to be like some hot boy race cars but to be comfortable and practical but i'm sure seeing these things when they get really fast is a really cool sight to see so if i were to compare this to the laurel i think this is nicer if i were to compare to the safaro i think this is nicer it's very user friendly okay here we go we're hitting some bumps it's definitely built more for comfort it feels like but it definitely feels nicer than the laurel feels nicer than the safiro it definitely was a little bit more ahead of its time i just wish that i wish we got this car it would have been really cool to see what the american aftermarket would have done with this thing but these are now fully legal and now i think we're going to see a lot of really neat mods and vip cars stuff out of this i would much rather see people make these fast and make them kind of stance cars on bags or something but on bags you have to admit this thing would look really good the stagia is one of those cars that when you pull up to a gas station people go i have no idea what that is one since we never got them they have no idea that it has a performance car lineage and they're like no way that makes no sense yeah nissan had a really cool idea with this thing and they executed it very well yeah that first gear is so exciting and that it's just like nothing i got nothing left dude it also shows how far turbo technology has come to since then there we go okay so if i give it like a little bit of like a halfway halfway throttle response about 50 percent you'll get a lot more turbo noise you'll hear it spooling up and kind of a little blow-off actuator oh okay get this thing having to add a lot of throttle modulation brakes are fantastic though like stay with me stagia it's so calm i don't even know what to think on that note bone stock nissan stagia excited that i got to drive it excited that they're here in the united states now what do you guys think about the stadia as a platform do you think it has potential to be seen in the united states or do you think you would just go get a skyline instead i think a lot of people would have a hard time choosing between this and say a skyline or something along those lines on that note i upload on tuesdays thursdays and sundays and i will see you guys next time and take it easy have a wonderful day goodbye you\n"