I doubt a smaller Nissan sport coupe will be FWD - they have the Altima coupe for that and the Juke. It makes no business sense to have that many sporty FWD compacts. The market and press has reacted to a small RWD car.
-Just because the platform may be a Juke platform doesn't mean the car will be FWD.
-A lot of platforms can use transverse and longitudinal layouts for the exact same car. FWD Audi A4 is transverse. Quattro AWD makes it longitudinal. Same goes for other FWD and AWD Audis.
-Juke platform had an entire GTR drivetrain swapped in. They have the entire blueprint for a 540HP VR38 swap. What makes you think a tiny little turbo-4 based on the VR38 sending power to the rear wouldn't be easily feasible? It just goes to show how well made the Juke platform is that a small crew of guys to modify it and drop all of the GTR's oversized bits and pieces.
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