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"Nissan" (日産) is a Japanese automobile maker.

From 1932 to 1983, they also used the trademark ''Datsun''. Their head offices are in the Ginza area of Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Nissan plans to move their headquarters to Yokohama, Kanagawa by 2010; the headquarters will start construction in 2007.

Nissan used to be Japan's second-largest car company, after Toyota, but it has dropped to third in size after Honda.

Due to financial problems throughout the 1990s (to the point where most believe an American company in a similarly bad financial state would have ceased trading), the French company Renault took a large shareholding in the company and installed Carlos Ghosn as president, the first non-Japanese person to run a Japanese car company (Mazda was run by an American, Mark Fields—now run by Lewis Booth of England—and Mitsubishi was run by a German, Rolf Eckrodt).

History

In 1914, the Kwaishinsha Motorcar Works (快進自動車工場), established three years earlier, in Azabu-Hiroo District in Tokyo, built the first DAT. The new car's name being the acronym of the company's partners' surnames:

*Den Kenjiro (田 健次郎)

*Aoyama Rokuro (青山 禄朗)

*Takeuchi Meitaro (竹内 明太郎).

The Works was renamed to Kwaishinsha Motorcar Co. in 1918, and again, in 1925, to DAT Motorcar Co.

The next year, theTokyo-based company merged with the Osaka-based Jitsuyo Jidosha Co., Ltd. (実用自動車製造株式会社) (established 1919) as DAT Automobile Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (ダット自動車製造株式会社, Dat Jidosha Seizo Kabushiki-Kaisha) in Osaka until 1932. In 1931, the first DATSON—meaning "Son of DAT"—was produced. However, the last syllable was changed to "sun", because "son" also means "loss" (損) in Japanese.

In 1933, the company name was Nipponized to Jidosha-Seizo Co. Ltd. (自動車製造株式会社, "Automobile Manufacturing Co. Ltd.") and moved to Yokohama. The company became Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. (日産自動車, Nissan Jidosha Kaisha) on June 1, 1934, and was founded by Yoshisuke Aikawa. For two years (1947 to 1948) the company was briefly called Nissan Heavy Industries Corp. (日産重工業). The company's head office is now in Tokyo but will move back to Yokohama in 2010.

The firm established assembly operations in the United States in the early 1980s, with a plant in Smyrna, Tennessee.This facility at first built only trucks, but has since been expanded to produce several car lines.An engine plant in Decherd, Tennessee followed, and most recently a second assembly plant in Canton, Mississippi.

Products

Nissan has produced an extensive range of mainstream cars and trucks, initially for domestic consumption but exported around the world since the 1950s. There was a major strike in 1953.

It also produced several memorable sports cars, including the Z-car, an affordable sports car originally introduced in the 1969; and the Skyline GT-R, a hugely-powerful four-wheel-drive sports coupe that is regarded by many as Japan's Porsche 911 and that has unfortunately rarely been seen (except as a gray import) outside Japan.

Nissan is also responsible for vehicles manufactured under the Infiniti brand.

Non-Automobile Products

Nissan has also had a number of ventures outside the automotive industry, most notably the Tu-Ka mobile phone service (est. 1994), which was sold to Japan Telecom in 1999.

Past and current models

Datsun

*Datsun 100A

*Datsun 120Y

*Datsun 140J

*Datsun 180B

*Datsun 200L

*Datsun 240C

*Datsun 240Z (1969)

*Datsun 260Z

*Datsun 280Z

*Datsun 510 Sedan (1968-1973)

*Datsun 1200 Sedan (1958)

*Datsun 1500, 1600, 2000 Roadster (1962-1970)

*Datsun B210

*Datsun Bluebird (1962)

*Datsun King Cab Truck

*Datsun Patrol (1962)

*Datsun SPL 210 (1960)

*Datsun Truck (1959)

Nissan

*Nissan 100NX

*Nissan 200SX ("S12","S13," "S14," "S15" [180SX, 240SX])

*Nissan 240SX

*Nissan 300ZX (Z31, Z32)

*Nissan 350Z (Z33)

*Nissan Almera

*Nissan Altima

*Nissan Armada

*Nissan Auster

*Nissan Bluebird

*Nissan Cedric

*Nissan Cefiro

*Nissan Cherry

*Nissan Cima

*Nissan Fairlady

*Nissan Frontier

*Nissan Gazelle

*Nissan Hardbody Truck

*Nissan Laurel

*Nissan Leopard

*Nissan Maxima

*Nissan Murano

*Nissan Micra

*Nissan Moco, a Keicar

*Nissan Pathfinder

*Nissan Pintara

*Nissan Primera

*Nissan Pulsar

*Nissan Quest

*Nissan Sentra

*Nissan Silvia

*Nissan Skyline

*Nissan Stanza

*Nissan Sunny

*Nissan Terrano

*Nissan Terrano II

*Nissan Titan

*Nissan Xterra

*Nissan Violet

*Nissan Wingroad

*Nissan X-Trail

External links

* Official website

* Channelnews Asia article on Nissan's Headquarters move

Category:Companies of Japan

Category:Automobile manufacturers

Category:Nissan

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