This is a 1998 Kid's Heart Sileighty. Dubbed by many sources as a modified S13-platform car, the Sileighty is essentially a Nissan 180SX with a Silvia S13's front, a modification commonly known as a "face swap" in Japan; the name "Sileighty" is a combination between "Silvia" and "180SX".
Strictly speaking although the 180SX and Silvia are considered different models, they share the same model number and basic structure; as a result parts between both models are interchangeable. Allegedly the Sileighty was borne from illegal street racing; when street racers crashed their 180SXs they would use parts from a Silvia as the 180SX's pop-up headlights were more expensive to repair than a Silvia's. Some also say Sileighties were made to reduce weight for the car, again with relation to the pop-up headlights. Other "face swaps" like the Onevia and Odyvia also exist.
What could be considered the original Sileighty is a lightly-tuned car built by a Tokyo shop featured in the August 1989 issue of Option, named at the time the "Silvia 180SX". The name "Sileighty" would be popularized later when the car appeared in media such as Initial D, Gran Turismo and Holiday Auto; its popularity eventually translated to Kid's Heart, a tuning shop in Kitanagoya, producing a limited run of 500 Sileighties outsourced to a Nissan dealership, released around 1998. Apparently the only official use of the Sileighty name, these cars can be differentiated by the Sileighty nameplate on their dress panels and rear. These were powered by a 2.0L SR20DET turbocharged inline-4 making 230 BHP. Other information about these Sileighties is rather scarce.
Now this casting was designed by Ron Wong and introduced in 2024 in the Car Culture line. This is currently its only release although a second is planned for 2025.
