The Datsun name is internationally well known for the 510, Fairlady roadsters, and the Z and ZX coupes.
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11 Facts About Datsun
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Year, the Occupation returned production facilities to Japanese control, and Datsun introduced the 110 saloon and the 110-based 120 pickup.
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Only in the 1960s did Datsun begin to brand some automobile models as Nissans, like the Patrol and a small test batch of about 100 Cedric luxury sedans, and then not again until the 1980s.
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Datsun was never allowed back into Nissan, which returned to passenger car manufacture in 1947 and to its original name of Nissan Motor Company Ltd.
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Katayama desired to build and sell passenger cars to people, not to the military; for him, the name "Datsun" had survived the war with its purity intact, not "Nissan".
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That same year, Datsun won the East African Safari Rally and merged with Prince Motors, giving the company the Skyline model range, as well as a test track at Murayama.
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Datsun models are sold in Indonesia, Russia, India, Nepal and South Africa since 2014.
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