# What's this car I parked?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 28, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-car-i-parked/318984 "2005-08-28T16:29:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-car-i-parked/318984/1 "2005-08-28T16:29:53Z")

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As many of you know, I valet park at Ballys Park Place in Atlantic City.

Last night I came across a familiar shape…with an unfamilliar name.

The body lines were those of the Infiniti G35 sport coupe…the gussied-up version of the Nissan 350-z, only this car only had infiniti badges _inside_ , outside it has nissan badges.

On the rear deck it said Nissan SKYLINE with a smaller 350-GT badge off to the side.

I’ve heard of the Nissan Skyline…AFAIK, a home-market-only performance car, but it looked quite different than the 350-z/g35

Was this some kind of gray-market import, or just somebody gluing on different badges?

BTW… it had Pensylvania state liscence plates.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-car-i-parked/318984/2 "2005-08-28T16:45:02Z")

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Did it look like [this](http://www.globalcar.com/datasheet/Nissan/2002NissanSkyline350GT-8.htm)?

Sounds like the owner got some Skyline badges and stuck them on.

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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-car-i-parked/318984/3 "2005-08-28T17:05:14Z")

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> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#):
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> Did it look like [this](http://www.globalcar.com/datasheet/Nissan/2002NissanSkyline350GT-8.htm)?
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> Sounds like the owner got some Skyline badges and stuck them on.

Yep…that’s what it looked like.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-car-i-parked/318984/4 "2005-08-28T17:11:54Z")

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I guess the Skyline badges make the car go faster. 😃

I wonder how the guy explains the Infiniti badges inside the car?

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**Author:** ![Harmonix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Harmonix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonix)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2005, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-this-car-i-parked/318984/5 "2005-08-28T21:00:59Z")

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The G35 Is the new skyline in japan I believe. Unfortunately they gutted it and removed the masterpeice of a rear suspension.

They did put it in the New M45 though.