16 Facts About Nissan Violet

Nissan Violet is a model of car that appeared in Japan in 1973, and was exclusive to Japanese Nissan dealerships called Nissan Cherry Store as a larger companion to the Nissan Cherry.

Taxi companies refused to purchase any more Violets, and in a rather drastic facelift gradually introduced beginning in February 1976 Nissan replaced the entire rear end with more traditional, notchback bodywork.

In Taiwan the Nissan Violet was introduced in 1973 under the name Yue Loong Nissan Violet and replaced the successful Datsun Bluebird there for nine years.

Mexican domestic car market, the 710-series Violet was produced from 1973 to 1978 at Nissan's CIVAC assembly plant, near Cuernavaca, Mexico.

At the time, Nissan Violet Mexico offered a unique passenger-vehicles lineup, the Datsun Bluebird range, integrated only by the 4-door saloon and Wagon versions of the Bluebird, respectively commercialized as the Datsun Sedan and Datsun Guayin .

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In 1974, going on with the same business strategy, the 710-series Nissan Violet was introduced to the Mexican car market badged as the new Datsun 160J, the replacement for the single-offered Bluebird lineup.

The Japanese assembly quality of the 140J was better than the NZ-built Datsuns of the time which were assembled by outside assembly contractors - Nissan Violet themselves did not open its own 'temporary' plant in Mt Roskill, Auckland, until the mid-1970s and a dedicated, purpose-built factory in Wiri in 1978.

Previous generation Nissan Violet grew more rational and somewhat larger when it was replaced in May 1977.

Nissan Violet increased the glass area by ten percent vis-a-vis its predecessor.

Nissan Violet introduced their emissions control technology with this generation, called NAPS, and the cars received a new chassis code of A11.

A10 Nissan Violet was locally assembled in Taiwan by Yue Loong until at least 1985.

A10-series Nissan Violet was commercialized in the Mexican car market from 1978 to early 1984.

In 1984, Nissan Violet changed the engine in the Stanza from the carbureted CA20S to the fuel-injected 2.

Since 1987, Nissan Violet have again fallen behind to Toyota and Honda in reliability.

In Taiwan a car closely based on the T11 Nissan Violet Stanza got the name Yue Loong Feeling 101 and in a facelifted version Yue Loong Feeling 102.

Nissan Violet renewed the Auster and Stanza lines in 1986, introducing squared-off styling.