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It's official - after 27 years, the name plate Datsun is back, when he'll be stuck in front of a Micra budget size runaround It has five doors it has an engine 1 of 2 liters and costs 4500 he was born Nissan kidney.
In many ways, it's like 1934 only less than Adolf Hitler and the Great Depression and Prohibition laws and Al Capone.
OK, there is nothing like 1934, but this year, Nissan Motors was formed from the merger of two Japanese automakers DAT Automobile Co and Jitsuyo Automobile Co But instead of using the new Nissan name plate for the front of their car, they chose their brand Datsun - the nickname DAT automobile Co used since the previous year - which was a variant of Datson, the name used since the first car of the company last year, has changed because too much like a Japanese sentence afford to lose money.
Confusing, right It could be worse and, indeed, was soon the carmaking component Nissan operation was expensive to keep it afloat, it produces spare parts for Ford and GM because both companies were in the throes of being thrown out of Japan by the new era, the government fighty the thing is, says the government, or rather military component of it, spotted the opportunity - he wanted to focus on Nissan the construction of military trucks to its war effort.
A heavy hand came down, and Nissan has launched a series of luxury cars on the basis of cross-Graham-Paige using tools purchased and imported US More importantly, said cars - sold as the Nissan Model 70 Japan, the first to use the company's name - used massive 85bhp engine that could be used to feed an army truck like the model now 80, started in the forties.
So the only World War concern descended Nissan produced vehicles for the military and for a brief period, aircraft After peace was declared, and having survived many bankruptcy crisis and labor aggressive wranglings, he was remarkable, Americans he dragged from the precipice in 1950, the US army, through the UN, has ordered dozens of mini for its supply lines in Korea trucks.
There were some union shaped bumps in the fifties, but it was the decade that saw Nissan grow huge A range of new models - including a sedan based on A50 Austin - recorded an output increase of 865 cars in 1950 to over 32,000 in 1959 now he could begin to expand and get sassy.
The Company believes that its best bet was America that was, erm, interesting decision given how contentious relationship had been during World War II but it was also a sound of Mitsubishi imported them in California and they were a slow seller, but solid.
foreign sales meant that there was enough money sloshing around to shop, and in 1958 a Datsun team won the rally of Australia Mobilgas Trial in 210 named Fuji-Go Next year he also added some opportunity of a procedure with the cloth Fairlady -Top, constructed from fiber reinforced plastic vertiginously modern glass and if you were a fan Austin-Healey, designed by already- This VUs alongside the new Bluebird, sales hoisted US sales to 1,290.
Fast forward a few models, which all seem to be named after the seventies sitcom characters - Cedric, Silvia, Gloria - and Datsun had created a unique proposition in reliable American Small Cheap But then came what was the first truly desirable Japanese cars in 1969, the 510 GT-R and Fairlady Z were born, both just to be styled American market.
The 510 - in a variety of cooking, at least the GT-R was only for the Japanese market - has appealed to leaders buyers, and 240Z to other nearby organs in the States, about one million Zs were sold in a decade, it took Corvette 25 years to reach the same figures.
Meanwhile, in Europe, imports had been streaming in since 1962, when a shade over 700 blue birds were exported to Finland Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland got their hand, few after, followed by the UK and France the sales pitch was the same - secure, reliable, cheap, and sometimes interesting to watch - which earned them Blighty hearts, more efficient and a place in most British streets.
Come 1984 and the Datsun brand firmly established worldwide, Nissan decided it was time, it marketed its cars under the label of the parent brand Datsun was abandoned But it was an expensive decision change signs the price of 1100 Datsun dealers 30,000,000 Change the Datsun marketing epithet, we are led to the name Nissan 200 million cost was 50 million spent on Datsun ads approved but redundant in, it was an exercise 500m.
But he's back, but only for the Indian market, but would you like to see him back on the streets of Britain If so, what model.
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