Was nissan datsun. In 1933 dat became the nissan motor company ltd. He had been heavily influential in the design of the datsun 510 on which the 240z was based despite the two cars looking very different. Historians suggest that the practice was due to the companys willingness to disassociate the cars sold there with its assistance of japans world war ii efforts.
Nissan would phase out the datsun brand for the second time starting from 2020. By 1986 nissan had phased out the datsun name but re launched it in june 2013 as the brand for low cost vehicles manufactured for emerging markets. It was replaced in 1997 by the frontier and navarain japan it was sold only in nissan bluebird store locations.
Nissan has demonstrated a commitment to innovation since the companys founding in 1933. Changing the marketing epithet from datsun we are driven to the name is. Nissan expanded beyond its japanese roots from there and officially came to the us.
From 1958 to 1986 only vehicles exported by nissan were identified as datsun. However even when the united states had its first taste of the companys vehicles in 1958 most of them retained the datsun nameplate. Primarily dealing in foundries and auto parts nihon sangyo debuted on the tokyo stock exchange by its ticker name nissan in 1933.
The datsun truck is a compact pickup truck made by nissan in japan from 1955 through 1997. Although the datsun 240z was designed by yoshihiko matsuo and a nissan team the real concept for the car came from mr.