![]() And it was just prior to Ghosn’s entrance. I say real because it wasn’t an 800 word business section glossover we’ve all become accustomed to as the internet has evolved. Memories can play tricks on us, so here from 1999 is a “real” article about their woes. One never knew what was going through Nissan’s corporate head in those days from the early 1990s to 2000, because it was on the path to bankruptcy. And the rest of the car looks like the estate but with less glass area. The grille reminded me of the Wartburg Knight at once! Before I read your expose. However, the occasional Rasheen can occasionally be seen on this side of the world as a grey import – a rare, wondrous and always welcome sight. The Rasheen was never offered outside of the Japanese Domestic Market and in 2000, in the wake of Carlos Ghosn’s appointment and subject to his subsequent cost-cutting plans, production was halted at Nissan’s Oppama plant, replaced (indirectly at least), by the entirely orthodox X-Trail SUV. And although it’s rather unlikely the freshly honoured Land Rover CCO would have placed a photo of the Rasheen upon his studio moodboard, one can’t help feeling that perhaps he ought.Įither way, the car itself certainly suggests that Nissan’s design team, or the small skunkworks headed by Pike Cars’ Naoki Sakai who is said to have produced it, not only did their homework, but were it seems, fully cognisant of the more obscure forms of automobilia from the furthest corners of the former Soviet Union controlled East Germany. Looking for all the world like a spiritual successor to the Wartburg 353 Tourist of 1966, the Rasheen’s styling is pleasingly clean-limbed and unadorned, with a large glass area amidst an upright canopy which could be said to have foreshadowed a certain Mr. ![]() A larger 1.8 litre engine with 125 bhp arrived three years later, followed in 1998 by an optional 2.0 litre, 143 bhp engine in the Forza edition. Sharing a platform with the contemporary Sunny /Pulsar, the Rasheen was first offered a year later with a 1.5 litre, 104 bhp GA15DE engine and Nissan’s ATTESA viscous coupling four-wheel-drive system, which distributed torque to the wheels that most required it. Noting the growing popularity of sports utility vehicles, Nissan created a prototype for the 1993 Tokyo motor show, which was less a utility and more an augmented estate. Having been once perceived as purveyors of mediocrity, Nissan now were on the very cusp of cool.īut as the rest of the world began to explore their own stylistic back catalogues in response, Nissan and the Japanese makers moved further away from pastiche, into something a little more nebulous, a tad more ambiguous, if still retrospective in tone. The Pike Factory cars, BE 1/ Pao/ S-Cargo and Figaro were not only highly successful halo cars wihin the Japanese domestic market, but lent the brand a degree of cachet which had perhaps previously eluded them. Of all the Japanese carmakers, Nissan was perhaps the most prolific and it must be said, daring of the purveyors of retro-flavoured designs. Sale! R32 Nissan Skyline GTR GTST Brake Calipers Knuckles Spindles BNR32 Brakes Kit $800.00 $650.A curiosity from the early 1990s.SR20DET S13 Red Top 2.0L Turbo Engine with 5-Speed Manual Transmission Nissan 200sx 240sx Silvia SR20 $6,100.00.RB20DET 2.0L I6 Turbo Engine with 5-Speed Manual Transmission JDM Nissan Skyline R32 GTST $5,000.00.Nissan 350Z Complete Front End Nose Cut NO RHD CONVERSION ONLY WHAT’S LISTED $1,500.00. ![]()
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