Nissan Stagea 25X
A roomy Japanese wagon with a smooth six-cylinder engine up front and its driven wheels at the back.
1996 Japan Nissan Stagea 25X · Junjun · Public domain (author release)
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More than a set of wheels.
Nissan launched the Stagea in September 1996 around the idea of a 'prestige touring wagon': useful luggage space combined with the road manners of a sporting passenger car. The 25X sat in the naturally aspirated part of the opening range. Its 2.5-litre RB25DE drove the rear wheels through a four-speed electronic automatic, while Nissan also sold clearly different four-wheel-drive and turbo grades. Later Stageas gained NEO engines and Autech's 260RS became the famous halo version, but neither belongs in this launch-spec 25X profile.
Look a little closer.
The Stagea was a big wagon—4.8 metres long—but its rear seat folded in two sections so it could switch between carrying people and long loads.
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The badge decides which wheels work
Nissan's opening range used very similar bodies for quite different drivetrains. The plain 25X profiled here is type E-WGC34 and rear-wheel drive; the 25X FOUR adds four-wheel drive and a different model code. Treating every early Stagea as a Skyline-like AWD performance wagon would erase the ordinary rear-drive model that many Japanese buyers actually saw in showrooms.
Source: GAZOO catalogue · Nissan Stagea 25X, September 1996 ↗A luggage brief before the legend
Nissan's heritage collection describes the 1996 Stagea concept as comfortable, sporty travel with a large, easy-to-use luggage room. The celebrated 260RS arrived in 1997 and used radically different RB26 twin-turbo, four-wheel-drive hardware. It is useful family context, but its performance numbers must never be copied into a 25X profile.
Source: Nissan Heritage Collection · Stagea Autech Version 260RS ↗Where these facts come from
- Nissan Global Newsroom · Nissan to release all-new Stagea prestigious touring wagon
- Nissan Heritage Collection · Stagea Autech Version 260RS
- GAZOO catalogue · Nissan Stagea 25X, September 1996
- Goo-net catalogue · Nissan Stagea 25X, September 1996
Selected facts checked for this edition. Some source pages link to broader model families. Last reviewed October 1, 2026.