Interestingly, it actually adopted the brand name Datsun in 1931, before the company started renaming cars in 1984. So, it's perhaps no surprise that the company wanted to resurrect the historic ...

Once a horrific little car that no one wanted, Harry Klaus' 1970 Datsun 510 with its surprising drivetrain is now one of California's cleanest JDM restorations on the road, built in an ordinary ...

From the May 1980 issue of Car and Driver. It's hell out there in the automotive business, but you wouldn't know it by watching Datsun. While most other manufacturers are leaning out their model ...

Yet, when it comes to older cars, process can be a huge part of the appeal. Firing up this pristine 1973 Datsun 240Z, part of Nissan's Heritage collection in Nashville, Tennessee, required the ...

The Datsun brand — which operated under Nissan, the maker of many strange cars – is no longer active, but that's not to say that it has been entirely forgotten to history. The first Datsun ...

The Datsun name goes all the way back to the foundation of Nissan itself in 1934. A new company had been formed from the merger of DAT Automobile Co. and Jitsuyo Automobile Co., and it was decided ...

The Nissan Z cars were offered outside of Japan, including in the United States, under the Datsun brand, and they are now considered priceless classics by car collectors. One of the most coveted ...

It's still difficult to believe that within the span of the past decade Nissan resurrected the Datsun brand to great fanfare, only to close it down just a little over a year ago. If we hadn't ...

Before the 240Z arrived, the Datsun roadster showed that Japan could deliver sports-car thrills. This example has the later 2.0-liter engine, with twin SU carburetors and a recent rebuild.

Another 200B joke was that people bought it. By the thousands. In late 1977, the five-car Datsun 200B range was launched in Australia. It included three versions of a locally-built sedan ...

An impressive collection of classic Datsun Z models are currently available through individual auctions on Bring a Trailer. The collection is owned by a member of the online auction marketplace ...