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Datsun 240Z (US model) Katayama desired to build and sell passenger cars to people, not to the military; for him, the name "Datsun" had survived the war with its purity intact, not "Nissan".
When Nissan took control of DAT in 1934, the name "Datson" was changed to "Datsun", because "son" also means "loss" (損 Son) in Japanese and also to honor the sun depicted in the national flag. citation Nissan phased out the Datsun brand in March 1986.
I would kill the entire NHTSA board for the ability to buy a new Datsun truck.
Lucky Duck and the three other conscripts were bundled from the Pretoria barracks into a Datsun 120Y by three plain clothes detectives for red eyes, a pipe and a pile of ash.
Old-timer Seef Fourie Senior took his Datsun 160Y to the opening Midvaal Historic victory.
SuperSport United coach Gavin Hunt has welcomed the return of the competition that was first played in 1982 known as the Datsun Challenge.
And this 1983 Datsun 280Zx down on my block yesterday morning?
Datsun had showcased the Go Cross concept at the Auto Expo 2016 in Greater Noida and has been working on it since then.
Fatefully the next day I received a phone call at my drawing board just about midday from Downey Datsun.
It’s an absolutely classic sports car look, long hood, short deck proportions and flowing likes like Ferraris or Jaguars or even Corvettes and Datsun 240Zs of that era.
This isn’t some $40,000 Datsun restoration in the garage, or a Ferrari engine you bought online and definitely plan to swap into a car someday—you know, larger expensive items that are hard to move without keys or outside assistance.
Along with the arrival of their new flagship sports coupe, Nissan launched an aggressive marketing campaign to promote the brand name change from Datsun to Nissan.
Corporate choice favored Datsun, so as to distance the parent factory Nissan’s association by Americans with Japanese military manufacture.
Datsun entered the American market in 1958, with sales in California.
Datsun Fairlady American service personnel in their teens or early twenties during the Second World War would be in prime car-buying age by 1960, if only to find an economical small second car for their growing family needs.
In Japan, the Z was still known as the Fairlady to keep the car in line with the previous generation Datsun Sports roadster.
Miss Fairladys became the marketers of Datsun Fair Lady 1500.
Not until 1955 did Datsun offer an indigenous design.
Operational costs included the changing of signs at 1,100 Datsun dealerships, and amounted to US$30 million.
The agreement also gave Nissan rights to use Austin patents, which Nissan used in developing its own engines for its Datsun line of cars.