Nissan studied the Sonata while designing their newest Altima Options

[elantragt]

Nissan execs admitted they looked heavily at the Sonata during the design process of the 2013 Altima. Wow, have times changed!

The debut of Hyundai’s Sonata midsize sedan caused a brief halt to design work on Nissan’s fifth-generation Altima, a top executive at the Japanese auto maker reveals. “Clearly, we referenced the Sonata when we were going through the design process,” Andy Palmer, Nissan executive vice president-global planning, marketing and Infiniti Div., tells WardsAuto in an interview here. “We even delayed development by a short amount just to check that the (new Altima’s) proportions were right, the (package) was right (and that) the product overall was right.”

Hyundai made U.S. car buyers and the industry take notice three years ago with the release of its latest, aggressively styled Sonata. “I’d say they are our major point of reference,” Palmer says.

source: http://wardsauto.com/north-america/sonata-sways-new-altima-design-nissan-sets-sights-camry

[Alex2013GT]

haha, yes how times have changed!

[slowgls]

The car dosent look that bad at all.