History of Nissan

There comes to our blog of the engine other of the Japanese giants, Nissan. At present and of the hand of Renault, which was done by 44 % of his actions, it faces with optimism the future. His president, Carlos Ghosn, named by the French multinational helped to revitalize it after the crisis of the 90 and Japanese presided by a foreigner turned it into the first car company.

• Nissan; Japan.
• Founded in 1931.
• Emblematic models: Datsun 240Z, Silvia, Patrol, Terrano, Altima, Skyline, the First, Bluebird, Almera, 200SX ….
• Models in production: Murano, Qashqai, Notices, 370Z, Pixo, Micron, Tiida ….

To the beginning of his history Nissan he devoted himself to construct trucks, engines and planes for the Japanese army. During the 2nd World war when the country of the nascent sun invaded small stone, Nissan moved his production to that country until the plant came across. After the signature finished the conflict there looked an associate who will help her to start again with the production of new models and to gain access to new technologies. The elected one was the British mark Aston Martin. It started for importing partially mounted cars, it was stopping assembling them in Japan and they were commercialized under Austin's name. At the age of three, Nissan was already making entirely Austin of his plant of Japan.

Thanks to the help of Aston Martin, Nissan could gain access to the necessary technology to be able to make its own engines “To series” that would use later his line Datsun. The Datsun were small vehicles designed to satisfy the increasing demand that existed for these vehicles both in Japan and in the United States and Australia. At the end of the 50 it founded “Nissan Motor Corporation in USA” and began with the sale in that country of the model Bluebird, whom Datsun Fairlady would follow, both more economic than his European rivals.

In 1966 it fused with the signature Prince Motor Company, to make luxurious models, of this collaboration there were born Prince Skyline or the Glory, which later adopted the name of Nissan. One year later, Nissan, presented new and motive forward position of four cylinders OHC that promoted the Datsun 510, a sedan that reached a good number of sales on a global scale.

At the beginning of the 70 the S30 or Datsun 240Z, one presented before himself sports with an engine of six cylinders that revolutionized the market and raised the category of Nissan as manufacturer of motorcars. In 1974 there would appear the scale Silvia who with different variants was made until 2002.

In the 80s the model most representative of the Japanese mark was the Skylinte GT-R. The increasing interest of Nissan in the competition turned out to be captured of the creation of his branch NISMO, which was the manager of preparing the different models for the competition.

In 1986 there appeared an old acquaintance, Nissan Terrano, this model came to revolutionize the market of the todocamino and even Ford made it under license with the name of Maverick. Other models as the Patrol did of the Japanese mark a modality in this segment. In 1989 it founded Infiniti, his division of luxurious vehicles. In the 90 as many other companies, Nissan crossed economic difficulties that finished with the sale on behalf of the signature to the French multinational Renault.

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