Nissan Purchases Mitsubishi... bringing back Datsun

I'd settle for a good old fashion Datsun pickup.

Those little sumbitches were ahead of their time.

Wasn't Datsun created so Mitsubishi could sell cars to the US and the WW2 vets wouldn't get pissed that it was the same company that made Japanese fighter planes?

eclipses were so terrible.

I think dodge did a talon that was supposed to rival the eclipses also

The Talon (sold by Chrysler as an "Eagle" Talon) WAS an Eclipse. It just had different badges. The Plymouth Laser was the same thing. Chrysler had a deal with Mitsubishi.

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the GOAT of all 90's cars, the 3000GT

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Naw man, the Supra was the GOAT.

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I'd settle for a good old fashion Datsun (Ford Courier) pickup.

Those little sumbitches were ahead of their time.

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My grandfather had one of those and it had a little over 700k miles on it when he died.

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It already exist. It's called a 370Z

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Meh.. There'd be a market for a smaller platform pure sports car. Something that would compete with the Subby RBZ and Scion fr-s

I figured there was more to the talon. I just wasn't sure. I knew they looked just like each other.

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I hope Nissan reinvigorates Mitsu and brings back the GOAT of all 90's cars, the 3000GT

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GOAT...No, 3000's are a nightmare to work on or modify.. not to mention plenty of other issues.

I do however think it's an underrated car..

GOAT 90's Jap sports car for the US at least goes to the Supra hands down.. Factory inline 6 could handle 700hp with ease before having to crack open the motor

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Wasn't Datsun created so Mitsubishi could sell cars to the US and the WW2 vets wouldn't get pissed that it was the same company that made Japanese fighter planes?

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Datsun's Japanese production run began in 1931 but you are correct that Datsun's parent company, Nissan chose the Datsun brand name over Nissan when they first entered the US Market

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The use of the Datsun name in the American market derives from the name Nissan used for its production cars. In fact, the cars produced by Nissan already used the Datsun brand name, a successful brand in Japan since 1932, long before World War II. Before the entry into the American market in 1958, Nissan did not produce cars under the Nissan brand name, but only trucks. Their in-house-designed cars were always branded as Datsuns. Hence, for Nissan executives it would be only natural to use such a successful name when exporting models to the United States. Only in the 1960s did Datsun begin to brand some automobile models as Nissans, and these were limited to their high-end models, for example the Cedric luxury-type sedan. The Japanese market Z-car (sold as the Fairlady Z) also had Nissan badging. In America, the Nissan branch was named "Nissan Motor Corporation in U.S.A.", and chartered on September 28, 1960, in California, but the small cars the firm exported to America were still named Datsun. Corporate choice favored Datsun, so as to distance the parent factory Nissan’s association by Americans with Japanese military manufacture. In fact Nissan's involvement in Japan's military industries was substantial. The company's car production at the Yokohama plant shifted towards military needs just a few years after the first passenger cars rolled off the assembly line, on April 11, 1935. By 1939 Nissan's operations had moved to Manchuria, then under Japanese occupation, where its founder and President, Yoshisuke Ayukawa, established the Manchurian Motor Company to manufacture military trucks.

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