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No, the article links to another article which says nothing about it being confirmed.

If you read carefully the article I linked, the language that they used makes it pretty clear they are not interested in doing a Roadster anymore. Look, the Roadster sold small numbers of an already limited production car. This is going to be even more limited with Europe being axed.

Nissan is a financially challenged company, clearly reusing as much as they could from the 370Z. Developing a convertible model of the new Z is going to be expensive. Look, the existing 370Z Roadster had 0 development costs to maintain production, they just had to build them and sell them, and even Nissan was no longer interested, yet alone to spend big money to develop a new one.

Which leads me to my final point. This isn't 2009 anymore, it's 2020 and the new Corvette is a hardtop convertible, the Mazda MX-5 has morphed into a hardtop convertible at well below the price point of the 370Z roadster.

A soft top convertible for a car well north of 40k isn't competitive anymore. I am sure Nissan knows this as well. A new generation Roadster that costs 50k+ would have to be a hardtop ala the Mazda MX-5 RF or the C8 Corvette convertible to sell in any decent numbers that would make it worth even producing.

But that's a catch-22 for Nissan. Do you know how much it would cost them to develop a hardtop retractable roof. It's probably not possible either, because the new Z is the old 370Z chassis; a chassis never initially conceived or designed for a hard-top retractable roof. Once again, for a company in financial distress, reusing 370Z door panels, it's clearly not possible.

For those with 370Z Roadsters; take care of them, because they are the end of the line.