NISMO has already officially landed on our shores in the form of the dragon-slaying GT-R Nismo, and there’s more on the way. A 370Z Nismo is in the planner for Australia too, but word from the company is that the number of roided-up road-going Nissans is set to grow significantly.

Globally, there are eight cars across the full line-up of Nismo road vehicles, covering a spectrum that ranges from the mundane (including the Note compact hatch and Elgrand people mover) right through to the monstrous GT-R Nismo, with everything from slightly warmed-over Sentras (AKA Pulsar) and Jukes in between.

But it won’t stop there. In a press conference held at the company’s Yokohama headquarters, Nismo announced the creation of a new business unit that will focus entirely on the development of more road cars.

The newly-minted Nismo Cars Business Department will be hitched to Autech, Nissan’s in-house specialty vehicle arm that normally engineers variants for disabled drivers in the Japanese market, and will draw staff from across Nissan group companies, including Nismo’s motorsport talent.

But with the Juke and Patrol already having received the Nismo treatment, it’s not a stretch to imagine something like a Qashqai Nismo. However there’s one segment that Nismo has yet to touch – utilities. Nismo Navara? Don’t laugh – it could be a lucrative niche given the top-selling car in Australia last year was a ute.

“As a Nissan sub-brand, Nismo further builds upon the core values of Nissan cars,” said Takao Katagiri, Nismo’s president and CEO.

Want to know how brutal a Nismo road car can get? Have a read of our review of the 2017 Nissan GT-R Nismo. Did we mention we drove it on the full Bathurst circuit too? Spoiler alert: it’s epic.