Random Quiz: What's Nissans Z car and Iron Man have in common?

[salty]

just being silly with a massive longshot....
Yoshihiko Matsuo was a huge marvel fan and had Iron man comics as a kid? 

thats bullcrap, Shintaro killed him in the 15th century

[gav240z]

They both make Robert Downey junior look good?

[Mr Camouflage]

Some funny comments, but the answer I had in mind is this:

In 1995 Nissan was planning to replace the Z32 300ZX in 1998 with a new Z car. Phil Saunders was designer at Nissan Design International in San Diego. Usual Practice was for the different Nissan design departments to come up with different designs, in a competition of sorts.

This was Phil's Design for the new Z. It won through to the Advanced stage in Japan, but then Nissan decided to cancel the Z, and the Z32 was the last Z made until Nissan revived the project some years later producing the Z33 350Z.








Phil Left Nissan in 1995, and continued his design career.

Oh yeah, Iron Man. He designed the Iron Man suit for the movie.
http://philsaunders.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2009-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=21

[RB30X]

And that right there is why they weren't allowed to make a zed for another ten years.