The AMC Pace-R (Pacer GT-R): A Story of Drugs and Car Design

Hello guys, so today instead of some amateur edit, or clickbait blog post, we have a little bit of both. Everyone loves the GT-R, but one day some higher ups at Nissan got bored and had a curious idea. They asked themselves “What if we slip those GTR engineers a bit of lsd (of the non-mechanical type if you know what I mean), and get them to make something really nuts”. They tested their plan with small doses at first. Eventually, these questionable actions gave birth to Juke R.

After the Juke R and Juke R 2.0 Nissan became hooked on the feeling of buzz the chubby little Juke R drummed up and they craved more. So in an attempt to up the anti, Nissan slipped their engineers and designers even larger doses and gave them free range to use any automotive platform, so long as it used a Nissan powertrain. What came next, would both shocked, amazed, but mostly perplexed the automotive community. You see, mid-trip one of the designers started going through some cheeky car name puns. This designer ended up with the Pacer, renamed to the Pace-R. All the members of the team got together to design this crazy Pacer, deciding to use the wagon model, because of its more sorted visual appeal over the bubbly coupe.

The new features included widebody flares, an open air intercooler intake as well as one headlight with a hole in the middle for air to go to the air filter (like the Hellcat), the same style rear wing as the Juke-R, and Classic BBS gold rims. To power the Pace-R, the engineers lifted the twin turbo V6 from the GTR and fit it in the engine bay with some persuasion, but decided to cut back on the computers and make it RWD with a Manual transmission beefed up manual gearbox from a Nissan 380Z Nismo. The car barely has any original suspension pieces and is almost an entirely new car.

So the response of the automotive press and Nissan itself? Well, Jalopnik came out with tons of content praising the Pace-R as the best car of 2016 because they like quirky stuff, and the guys over at Car Throttle sent Alex Kersten to do a review in which he reacted by doing his “oh my god” run like in the Focus RS review. The wider automotive press just doesn’t seem to get it, and Nissan stock wildly fluctuated with questions as to why money went into this project. Jeremy Clarkson calls it a sh!tbox, but ‘kind of likes it’, and is unknowing correct in saying the engineers and designers must have been on acid. After a run of about 30 Nissan isn’t happy and fires the men responsible for drugging their employees and nixes any future projects like this, telling the designers and engineers to get back work on more pedestrian projects like a new Nissan Leaf. This lead several of the designers and engineers to create their own separate tuning house on the side to create more of these crazy cars, though they no longer need external aid for their creative powers, embracing quirkiness and insanity.

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Disclaimer:Even though this story includes drug use it is used only to tell a comedic story, not to suggest you take drugs. I thought up this car, and I’m not on acid unless the government is putting something in the water….. So yeah, you can be creative without drugs kids, you just have to be insane.

 So, is this story believable at all?    The answer is no, what did you think?    Nissan would put a GTR engine in pretty much any car they sell, but putting it in a 70's Economy Car from America seems like it would take Nissan to buy out the rights to AMC, which would never happen.   This story was meant to be entertaining, and to showcase a crazy idea I came up with on Gimp 2.    I encourage everyone to share their own crazy fantasy car stories like this, and design strange and interesting cars.    What started out as a routine edit, ended up as something I'm quite proud of, and I hope others can experience this feeling.    Post your own car stories under the hashtag #carfanfiction , and no not the sexual kind of fan fiction, I think that will probably get you insta-banned (and rightly so).     Pics of this Pacer will also be posted up on Car Art, and I now have an account on Kinja, the platform which powers Jalopnik (and all Gawker products), and it's sub blogs.   Might use it, might not, just want to expand my horizons. #blogpost #carart