Re: How were Spridets sold originally?

["Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>]

At 10:19 PM 11/10/2006, Rick Fisk wrote:

>Before 1986 the brand name was plain old "Datsun".  There were parts and
>pieces on the cars branded "Nissan", but the vehicles were Datsuns.  Then
>they decided the US market was sophisticated enough to use the company's
>actual name.  For 1986 they used "Datsun by Nissan".  After that they
>dropped Datsun altogether and just used Nissan.
>
>BTW, Datsun was a made-up name for the US market.


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