29 Facts About Nissan Pulsar

Nissan Pulsar is a line of automobiles produced by the Japanese automaker Nissan from 1978 until 2000, when it was replaced by the Nissan Bluebird Sylphy in the Japanese market.

Between 2000 and 2005, the name "Nissan Pulsar" has been used in Australia and New Zealand on rebadged versions of the Sylphy.

In 2013, Nissan replaced the Tiida in Australia and New Zealand with two new models badged as Pulsar.

Name "Nissan Pulsar" is taken from pulsar, a highly magnetized, rotating neutron star.

The Nissan Pulsar was a subcompact car to augment the Sunny sedan.

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At the time of introduction, the Nissan Pulsar only had a four-door fastback-styled sedan bodywork, and either a 1.

The Datsun Nissan Pulsar was locally assembled in South Africa and in Malaysia by Tan Chong Motor.

N10 series Nissan Pulsar was available as a three- or five-door hatchback, a short-lived four-door fastback sedan, a five-door van or station wagon, and a three-door fastback-styled coupe with a wraparound rear window introduced at the end of 1978.

Late-term facelift in March 1981 brought Nissan Pulsar's newly developed OHC E-series engines in for the last twelve months of production, which introduced the more conventional drivetrain with an end-on transmission with unequal length driveshafts - the A-Series engine cars continued to use the transmission-in-sump layout that had been used in the previous generation Cherry models.

In 1982 "Nissan Pulsar" badges began to appear on the cars, due to Nissan Pulsar phasing out the Datsun name at that time for its international markets.

The van was unusual in the Japanese market for the period in being front-wheel drive; Nissan Pulsar made the most of this and gave it a special rear suspension to allow for a very low loading floor.

New Nissan Pulsar models were introduced in the Japanese home market with three- or five-door hatchback bodywork, as well as the Nissan Pulsar EXA two-door coupe.

The law had been changed only two months earlier, allowing for such fitment, and the Nissan Pulsar was the first Japanese car to take advantage of the change.

The lowest-spec models, like the Nissan Pulsar TC, continued to use fender mirrors until the end of N12 production.

N12 was assembled in New Zealand at Nissan Pulsar NZ's plant in Wiri South Auckland from 1982, and facelifted in 1984 when the main change was a switch to the now compulsory laminated windscreen.

Nissan Pulsar was sold in Japan as a three- and five-door hatchback, plus a four-door sedan.

Nissan Pulsar Australia kept using the GM engines until the succeeding N14 version was introduced.

In New Zealand, the previous Sunny and Pulsar ranges were replaced by a single model line now called the Nissan Sentra—which were based on the Japanese market Pulsar and again mostly locally assembled, all with Japanese-manufactured Nissan engines.

One anomaly from this period resulted from Nissan taking control of its British import and distribution business from Automotive Financial Group ; the acrimonious split between Nissan and Octav Botnar resulted in AFG sourcing the vehicle badged as the Pulsar and selling it concurrently in the UK alongside the "official" version by the newly established Nissan Motor GB.

Nissan Pulsar Australia assembled the range that sold from October 1991 to February 1993 at their factory in Clayton South, Victoria.

The Nissan Pulsar N14 was awarded Australian Wheels magazine's Car of the Year in 1991, an honor it shared with the Honda NSX.

Nissan Pulsar GTI-R was manufactured in Japan between August 1990 until November 1994.

The first year of production was the largest due to Nissan Pulsar needing to fulfil the FIA Group A regulations at the time in order to enter the car as a manufacturer in the WRC.

The New Zealand Nissan Sentra changed name to Pulsar after the Nissan assembly plant in Wiri, Auckland closed down in 1998, in favor of imports from Japan.

SR16VE N1 — Featured in the JDM Nissan Pulsar VZ-R N1, which was a racing homologation version intended to compete with the Honda Civic Type-R.

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Nissan Pulsar had planned and started work on the Version 3 VZR N1, however due to the Japanese economic crash, and partnership with Citroen, the project was dumped.

On 16 May 2014, Nissan revealed the C13 series Pulsar for the European market.

The C13 Pulsar signifies Nissan's reentry into the highly competitive compact hatchback segment, following the withdrawal of the Tiida from the market in 2011.

Nissan Pulsar was discontinued in Europe on 12 September 2018 due to poor demand, with Spanish production having ended in June of the same year.