Maintaining an image of excellent finish, tidy panel fit, and that general aura of Japanese engineering smugness, Nissan point to their latest testing apparatus, seemingly in a dolls-house world of miniature.

I’m sure it’s quite accurate for their assessments, but it seems the water and brush effects haven’t been scaled down so as to not represent a category 5 hurricane combined with God’s Oral-B 9000. Should make for some high quality paint then.

Actually, the model car isn’t routinely used, rather metal strips seen as the yellow in the pictures. I can’t blame anyone who works with this tiny jet wash with 180rpm brush for putting a scale model in there. This research done in Michigan based Nissan Technical Center North America, usually much more serious I’m sure.