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One thing I love about these Nissan press photos is how they display the ultra-basic and the super sumptuous just alongside each other. And since the large rear-wheel-drive Gloria saloon was such a sizeable model range, and in production for quite a while, there are a lot of good shots of them in various guises.…

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It’s not terribly uncommon for automobile manufacturers to shake hands and enter partnerships. There are parts-sharing deals, badge engineering endeavours and common development. But still, one of the weirdest things to have taken place was Nissan taking up the manufacturing of Volkswagen’s midsize Santana saloon and offering it via its own dealerships. There it was,…

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One thing that Datsun is universally known for, is trucks and light utility vehicles. Sturdy, simple, honest, blocky: you got your Datsun right there. No matter how bumped and rusted they get over the years, they seem to soldier on Hilux-like, in worlds first, second and third. This press photo post concentrates on the load-hauling…

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Another thing that this Nissan photo bank handily shows is that the venerable Skyline was a full line-up with basic models, and that the Iron Mask R30 coupe was just the tip of the iceberg. You got your load-luggers, family saloons, smart lower level coupes and all. The 2000 RS-Turbo seen above was the most…

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Moving on with the press photo galore that is this Datsun-Nissan weekend, it’s time to showcase the Sunny B11, known as the Sentra on North American markets. Most importantly, it is also my duty to notify you that the B11 was available as a woody wagon that could be ordered in custard yellow. Fender mirrors,…

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Recently, I was lucky enough to run into these excellent quality images Nissan has made available of their classic products. The Nissan Newsroom contains hundreds and hundreds of brochure photos of just plain wonderful Japanese domestic market metal, and they display the plain along the plain weird. For Weekend Edition purposes, I decided to dedicate the…

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There are a number of ’80s-’90s cars you just don’t see anymore. Old Fiats seem to vanish at an alarming rate, like they have always done, and by now the Fiat Uno is a rare sight on our roads. They sold reasonably well when new, as they were pretty cheap, but that just meant they…

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Easter is the time of bright colours, spring chicken, decorations and getting days off from work. And what a better way to enjoy a holiday than in a very very yellow Mercedes SLK? The car here isn’t the most powerful SLK you could get, by far, as it’s the 200 Kompressor and a facelift one…

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If the Cadillac posted previously was an odd sight in 1990s Finland, a Jaguar Sovereign like this might have been just a little more opulent. The plates here do mark it down as an import instead of an original, Finnish-registered 1992 car, but a decent number of XJ40:s did make it here new. With the…

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On a wet Easter weekend, you might still run into something interesting on these Helsinki side streets. This 1993 Cadillac STS is an original Finnish car judging by the plates, and the front plate at least is so bent it’s definitely 1993 vintage. I can’t imagine there were all too many Cadillacs registered here in…

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