For those of you who don’t know, Autech is Nissan Japan’s own in-house tuning and customisation arm. By law, JDM car manufacturers have to offer a customisation service to cater for disabled drivers, and so this service forms a big part of what Autech does. But over the years, Autech has also turned its attention to performance cars from time to time, the most notable ones being hand-built R32 and R33 Skyline 4dr sedans with GT-R running gear (and the Stagea RS260 station wagon with the same), and performance versions of the Silvia. Obviously there is the dangerous possibility of Autech overlapping with the good work that Nismo does, and so Autech has over the years mainly restricted itself to the high end stuff.
And high end certainly does describe Nissan’s big extravagance of the 1980s: the Autech Zagato Stelvio.
