emanistan Posted January 16, 2019 Report Share Posted January 16, 2019 I was just thinking about the elusive (to us yanks) B210/120Y/third-generation Sunny station wagon/estate/kombi/universal this afternoon and suddenly wondered: did Nissan ever build a left-hand drive version? In these pages there's a lot of confusion between the B210 built from 1974-78 and the similarly named 210 built from 1979, whose station-wagon version was widely exported to North America. I'm talking about the 1974-78 B210. Nissan built a wagon version, but these were not exported to North America. They were used in the Japanese domestic market--right-hand drive--and they were exported to the UK--also right-hand drive. Does anyone know if Nissan built left-hand drive versions, perhaps for parts of mainland Europe or Asia? Quote Link to comment
Dguy210 Posted January 16, 2019 Report Share Posted January 16, 2019 (edited) 31 minutes ago, emanistan said: I was just thinking about the elusive (to us yanks) B210/120Y/third-generation Sunny station wagon/estate/kombi/universal this afternoon and suddenly wondered: did Nissan ever build a left-hand drive version? In these pages there's a lot of confusion between the B210 built from 1974-78 and the similarly named 210 built from 1979, whose station-wagon version was widely exported to North America. I'm talking about the 1974-78 B210. Nissan built a wagon version, but these were not exported to North America. They were used in the Japanese domestic market--right-hand drive--and they were exported to the UK--also right-hand drive. Does anyone know if Nissan built left-hand drive versions, perhaps for parts of mainland Europe or Asia? Taiwan has them, although very rare. Were assembled locally by Yue Loong. I don't know for anyone else, maybe Greece too? Edited January 16, 2019 by Dguy210 Quote Link to comment
emanistan Posted January 22, 2019 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2019 On 1/15/2019 at 7:03 PM, Dguy210 said: Taiwan has them, although very rare. Were assembled locally by Yue Loong. I don't know for anyone else, maybe Greece too? Interesting. I would think the other main candidates would be West Germany and perhaps Indonesia which appears to have a big vintage Datsun community. Its odd though that Europe--even if it's just the UK--got them while North America didn't. One would have thought the demand for a compact wagon in the states then would have been huge, and unlike Europe, at that time it was relatively untapped. I wonder if it was uncertainty around the chicken-tax laws, since the wagons were thought of as vans in the Japanese market? Quote Link to comment
afracer Posted January 26, 2019 Report Share Posted January 26, 2019 It was untapped, not realized until the mid to late 70s otherwise we'd have had the best wagon of them all, the B110/1200 wagon! I'd love to snag one of those sexy babies. Quote Link to comment
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