If you ever looked at the new Nissan Z and thought, that'd make for a good station wagon, the students at Nissan's Automobile Technical College have your back. Well, sort of.

The vehicle you're looking at here is a Nissan Stagea (M35 generation fitted with the VQ-series V-6) that's been chopped up every which way to look like a wagon variant of the current Z. Its front fascia is pretty much what we'd all expect from such a project. The signature Z headlights pair nicely with the sculpted front bumper and large, rectangular maw of a grille. It's obviously much more upright and taller than a Z, but the added height doesn't appear unnatural, and the "Ikazuchi Yellow" paint is a match to the shade offered on the Z Proto here in the U.S. Even the black-painted roof for a two-tone appearance is applied to this build.

As you can see from the photo directly above, though, things get extremely weird aft of the rear doors. Students decided to chop off the rear section of the Stagea and weld on the rear end of a Nissan Leaf. Yes, that's why it looks like that. This makes it part Z, part Stagea, and part Leaf -- a combination that feels nigh impossible to dream up.

Despite the obvious Leaf hatchback and rear bumper, the team building this car still kept the Z theme going. The Leaf's taillights are replaced with the Z's LED units and a new black panel "connecting" the taillights across the full width of the rear. Its fenders are also considerably modified to be wider in hopes of a more muscular stance.

Its name is the "Z Lealia." The word Lealia combines the English word "lead" with the Latin word "familia," as the vision for students (fourth-year students in the Auto Maintenance and Customization Department) was to put together a sports vehicle that a whole family could ride around in. This build, alongside two others you can find described here, will be displayed at the 2025 Tokyo Auto Salon.