Nissan Sunny, a small car built by Nissan and introduced in 1966 under the nameplate Satsun 1000. In Japan, the production of the Sunny was discontinued in 2004, while it has been still in production for the African, American and Sri Lankan markets. The later models sold in United States were sold as Nissan Sentra. [...]
Nissan Motors introduced a van called the Nissan Caravan in 1973. It is designed to use as a cargo van or fleet vehicle. In the export markets, the Caravan was marketed as Nissan Urvan, King Van or Homy. It is offered as GX (flat roof) and DX (high roof) with several engine options including: KA24DE, [...]
In 1960s, Nissan Motors Limited produced a series of roadsters called the Datsun Sports (Datsun Fairlady in Japanese market). Datsun Sports was launched before the arrival of the Z-car in the Fairlady line and served the purpose of an inexpensive substitute of British MG and Triumph sports cars. The first model to appear in this [...]
A 4-wheel drive Nissan Patrol has been in production since 1951. The name of the car was changed to Nissan Safari for Japanese market in 1980. Nissan Patrol has a huge market base and is sold in Australasia, Central and South America, South Africa, parts of Southeast Asia, Western Europe, Iran and the Middle East. [...]
The Nissan Maxima was first launched in July 1976 as an upscale version of the Bluebird. It is a full-sized car produced by Nissan Motors Limited. It was often advertised as ‘4-wheel sports car’. Majority of the Maxima units produced before 2004 were manufactured in Oppama, Japan. Later, a plant was built in North America [...]
The Japanese automaker Nissan introduced its subcompact vehicle called the Nissan Pulsar in 1978. It remained in production until 2007 when Nissan Tiida took its place in the automotive market. Nissan Pulsar was introduced originally as a replacement vehicle for the front-wheel drive, Nissan Cherry (models E10 and F10). Majority of the Pulsar models were [...]
The Datsun 510 was originally a series related to Nissan/Datsun Bluebird remained in production from 1968 to 1974. It was marketed as Datsun 1600 outside the US market. The AutoWeek’s G.D. Levy described the 510 series as a ‘poor man’s BMW’. The reason behind this title might be its engineering that was based on the [...]
The Nissan Silvia, along running line of sport coupes produced by Nissan appeared for the first time in 1964. It used Nissan S Platform. The chassis has been shared with other Nissan’s recent models such as European 200SX and North American 240SX for S13 and S14 generations, and 180SX for Japanese models, the name Silvia [...]
In 1968, Nissan launched a new model called the Nissan Laurel. It was placed just above the Bluebird 510 launched in 1968. Except for reduced dimensions, it offered the similar luxury feel as that of Nissan Cedric 130. Nissan Tsurumi R&D Division built the first Nissan Laurel at the Musashimurayama Plant property of the former [...]
Like Nissan Violet that appeared in 1973 and gave birth to two new models as second generation Nissan Auster and Nissan Violet in 1977, the Nissan Stanza started out in the similar fashion. The codename designated to all the three models was A10 and all of them were produced at Hiratsuka and Oppama, Japan. The [...]
