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, […]
The Nissan S-Cargo is a part of Nissan’s Pike family of vehicles that were sold new in Japan and predated the early 2000s retro-style fad (PT Cruiser, Prowler, HHR, SSR etc). The S-Cargo looks like a washing machine with cartoon eyes, but it was a retro styled tribute to the Citroën 2CV Fourgonnette delivery van […]
Back in the 1980s when retro-styling wasn’t a thing, the nuts at Nissan built a series of cars known as the Pike family that consisted of the Be-1, Pao, Figaro and S-Cargo. Various examples of the Pao and Figaro seem to be for sale around the web from time-to-time, but the S-Cargo version is much […]
The Nissan S-Cargo was launched in 1989 as part of the Pike series (Be-1, Pao, Figaro and S-Cargo) of retro-styled economy cars. Nissan’s Pike cars beat the New Beetle, New Mini, PT Cruiser to the retro-style market, but keep in mind that the old Mini had been retro-styled by default since about 1970, and the […]
The Nissan S-Cargo is a part of Nissan’s Pike family of vehicles that were sold new in Japan and predated the current retro-style fad (PT Cruiser, Prowler, HHR, SSR etc). In stock form the S-Cargo looks like a washing machine with cartoon eyes, but it was a retro styled tribute to the Citroën 2CV […]
The Nissan Figaro we posted on Monday was admittedly overpriced, especially considering that it is persona non grata for licensing in the state of California for at least 2 more years, and we found a much cheaper example in Vancouver, BC Canada for $7500 CAD. Still, the Figaro offers little useability, but its strangely named […]