In the late 1980s Nissan released a series of retro-styled vehicles into the Japanese market built on what is known in common parlance as the Pike platform. The funky retro-designs were penned by a guy named Naoki Sakai who was noted for bringing retro styling to Olympus brand cameras. The limited production retro-minis included Be-1, […]
This next car is an interesting combination of new and old. Of eclectic and electric. Of forward thinking and green style. Of pink and blue. Yes. Somebody put a Studebaker Avanti body on top of a Nissan Leaf chassis and I don’t know if I should be excited or disgusted. Find this 1979 Avanti converted to […]
I’m feeling nostalgic. Nostalgic for a time when license plates were blue…louvers were cool…turbochargers were only available on performance cars…and hood scoops were shaped like pizza boxes. Find this 1984 Nissan 200SX S12 Turbo offered for $4000 in East Bay Area, CA via craigslist. Tip from FuelTruck. From the seller: 1984 1984 Nissan Datsun S12 200SX […]
The 300ZX was a 2 door sports car from Nissan during the great Japanese sports car boom of the 1990s and featured a host of technology in a Isao Sono & Toshio Yamashita designed body. In recent years the 300ZX’s competitors (Supra, NSX, 993) have gone through their depreciation curves and the good original ones […]
The Z31 generation Nissan/Datsun 300ZX did not get a convertible version from the factory…but there was a company in California that converted the coupe version into a ragtop for a fee back when new. This is one of the original 250 convertiblized cars that still remains on the road today, so the price is higher […]
The Y34 generation M45 was sold in the US market for the 2003 and 2004 model years only, and in very limited numbers (8000 or so if you believe the web). The M45 was sold as a competitor to the BMW 540i, Audi S6 or Mercedes-Benz E500 and you don’t see many around partially because […]
By the 1978 model year the US spec Datsun Z had lost some of its original luster and it was looking bloated with big American bumpers and those heinous accordion mounting brackets. Even with a larger engine, the added safety and emission control bloat meant the car was slower and less fun to drive than […]
Another day, another cute snail shaped classic oddball Japanese domestic market (JDM) classic on the pages of Daily Turismo. Why? Because it’s never too late to trade your terrible late model boring crossover lamemobile into an AWESOME piece of automotive history (read about Nissan’s Pike cars here). Stop driving Ford Escapes, Nissan Rogues, Honda CRV, […]
You either get the Z32 Nissan 300ZX or you don’t. It isn’t like the NSX, where everybody begrudgingly agrees that it was awesome (and prices have skyrocketed recently) or the 3000GT VR4 that everyone agrees was sorta trash (even the owners admit the car was the paradigm of the overly complicated lightswitch), but 300ZX lives […]
What are the chances? Two of Nissan’s sweet retrotastic “Pike” cars for sale at the same time. Most people have never heard of oddball classics, much less seen one in the wild and here is your chance to buy two of them for less than a new Accord. Now you get to pick the one […]