Nissan 2008 Tiida HUD

[Andrews Chalmers]

I was looking around at various national Nissan Versa/Tiida websites.. apparently the Taiwan Nissan Versa will be getting a HUD standard for the 2008 model year...

anyone more web savvy who knows where the OEM parts may be sourced?

[BBISHOPPCM]

A HUD? Housing and Urban Development? or Head-Up-Display? you need to be more specific...

[Andrews Chalmers]

A HUD? Housing and Urban Development? or Head-Up-Display? you need to be more specific...

Um... yes - Nissan has decided to make housing and urban development standard on 2008 Tiidas.

[jspec603]

An OE HUD would be an excellent addition to the Versa! I miss having the option in my old 240 coupe. So much easier to know your current speed (mostly at night) and definitely avoids taking your yes off the road as much.

[BBISHOPPCM]

Seriously though, this has been tried before by Nissan, GM, and maybe even Ford (amongst others) back in the 80's and 90's, and it never took off then... what makes them think it'll take off now? Same with four-wheel steering (in the 1980s by Honda and Mazda, and again after the turn of the century by GM) and both times were not successful. Same can be said for a few other luxury items.

[biggie]

I love my HUD in the 240s I have or have had.

You also forgot Nissan had 4 wheel steering, people seemed to like most of them: S13, Z32 TT, and All the R32-R34 GT-Rs.

[feloniousmonk]

I love my HUD in the 240s I have or have had.

You also forgot Nissan had 4 wheel steering, people seemed to like most of them: S13, Z32 TT, and All the R32-R34 GT-Rs.

Yes, but all wheel steering is a bad thing if you talk to certain people. Stillen has a rear HICAS delete kit for the 300ZX for a reason.

Perhaps the current systems are better. It's in the G37 coupe and the new FX35/50 as well... perhaps even the M35/45 series (can't remember). Dealt with so many of them at work. After a while they all blur together.

Personally, I don't think a HUD is all that useful, especially in a small car like the Versa. Your eye doesn't really have far to go to see the gauges. A nice NAV system at a reasonable price would be far more useful.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Honestly, I think the reason HUDs haven't been more popular in cars is because they've been done "wrong" or because they've been mishandled (either in marketing or availability). The 240sx HUD was done wrong. If the 240SX had coupled a digital HUD display with an ANALOG speedometer, I'm willing to bet it would have been much more popular. But no one wants a digital speedo.GM offered HUDs with infrared overlays (an excellent idea!) in certain cars. But only in high-tier cars or grandpa cars (it was Cadillac and Buick that got them) and only with certain option packages. IIRC, actually getting the HUD in the Caddys that offered was made impractical by the way the options were packaged by GM.

If someone were to actually do it right (don't make it a gimmick, don't make a big deal of it) and just offer a head-up duplicate information display on the windshield in addition to the existing stock (UN-CHANGED) normal display, I think it'd be popular. As long as the manufacturer didn't lock it out of reach by packaging it poorly (something Nissan has gotten rather good at lately).

Same with four-wheel steering (in the 1980s by Honda and Mazda, and again after the turn of the century by GM) and both times were not successful. Same can be said for a few other luxury items.

Nissan's HICAS 4 wheel steering system (used on everything from the GTR to the Q45) has been very successful and is still in use today.

HICAS delete kits are usually just for retard drifters who like to ruin the proper function of automobiles so that they can waste a lot of tires achieving nothing in particular. I do say "usually" though, because HICAS does alter the dynamics of the car (obviously) and a lot of people just don't like the different way cars behave with it. However, I'd say the fact that Nissan's most renowned sports coupe offered it is enough to bump it out of the gimmick category (into which Honda's mildly-useful-at-best parking-assist 4ws falls) and into the realm of real useful technology.

[keanucosmo]

Seriously though, this has been tried before by Nissan, GM, and maybe even Ford (amongst others) back in the 80's and 90's, and it never took off then... what makes them think it'll take off now?

In the C5 Corvette, it became an option in 99. It's one of the most popular mods for C5 & C6 Vettes that came without it. I retrofitted it on my 98 & love it. Some of the systems you are talking about were tremendously expensive. If the cost is reasonable ( <$400), people will buy it.