Happy Birth Day Skyline

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:sorcerer: Nissan celebrated five decades of production of the Skyline saloon at a swish party in Tokyo yesterday. This 50th anniversary bash, staged at Tokyo Midtown, absolutely the most glamourous of megabuck Tokyo city developments, brought together Skylines old and new, as well as some of the men behind this Japanese sporting legend.

Men such as Shinichiro Sakurai, the 78-year-old development chief for the original ALSI 1.5-litre Skyline (Japan’s first sports saloon) and Tatsuo Osawa, chief product specialist for today’s new V36 Skyline, a car that’s definitely big in Japan right now and selling well over target, gathered to celebrate.

The party, held exactly 50 years to the day since the very first Prince Skyline was launched in April 1957, also saw the unveiling of the new V36 Skyline Coupe, essentially Japan’s version of the 2008 Infiniti G37 Coupe. This rear-drive, 3.7-litre coupe goes on sale in Japan later this year and is on track to be one of the first Infiniti models when Infiniti goes live in the UK in 2008.

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