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There was a time when buying a Japanese car you have marked as someone a little short on common sense, it was a time when nothing this side of the Pacific was considered slender and short, a time when the best-selling car in America wasn ta Toyota Detroit was still stuck in its ways of the old school, and few people really cared about fuel costs Datsun boxy 510 allowed the ball to change all that, and remains one of the most important Japanese cars ever built it is no coincidence that the 510 was also a Flaming hoot to drive.
The first Japanese rates in the US were too small, too full of engineering sewing machine, too slow, or painful combination of three This was due in large part to always isolated blurred image of Japan American leadership Yutaka Katayama, the enigmatic leader Datsun Nissan America, played a key role in focusing the maverick image and a radical thinker, Katayama was convinced for many years of life in the United States that the only way for Japanese automakers to succeed America was for them to build custom cars for the US market 510 would be the first of this breed and rated the fast, solid and fun BMW 1600, Katayama set ambitious targets for modern, sustainable engineering and speed in the real world building the 510 down to a price, he assured his mass appeal Katayama managed the diminutive sedan finally sells u more than half a million copies worldwide.
The first 510 rolled off the production line in late 1967 initially available only as a four-door car designed Teruo Uchino would later showrooms as a two-door sedan, a four-door wagon and Japan just two doors cut the suspension was independent, like the BMW s consisted of struts in front and rear arms semitrailing in cars, however, had a rigid rear axle gutsy 96 hp came a wave farm but engaging 1 6 liters SOHC four-cylinder with two cylinders, a version of this engine would later supply the iconic Datsun inside 240Z and well outer thin steel materials, vinyl cheap, and hard plastics looked and felt brakes drive before were relatively durable additional standard.
The 510 may have been a little slower and less refined than the BMW world beating, but he was also a screaming deal; the asking price Datsun was about 2000, while the 1600 cost about 3000 Two Trans-Am championships celebrity couple John Morton Peter Brock on the BMW and Alfa competition Romeo proved 510 of the dynamics inherent value to Katayama, victories were just icing on the cake when 510 production ended in 1973, the Japanese car sentence had ceased to be a punch line and become a reason to start looking at the mirrors.
PAY WHAT Good, solid conductors range from 2,000 to 5,000 survivors and pristine cars at the contest can run upwards of 10,000.
STYLES OF THE BODY two or four-door sedan; A car with four doors two-door coupe was available only in Japan.
PRODUCTION A little more than 550,000 cars worldwide Most were four-door sedans.
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