Sunny Shop (サティオ店) was the Sunny sales company (dealers 販売会社), organized for the purpose of selling the revolutionary people's car the Datsun B10 Sunny 1000 of 1966. It was intended that new dealers would be organized instead of selling the Sunnys at the existing Datsun Bluebird dealers.
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History
Datsun dealers sold the traditional cars named Bluebird. Then in 1966 the Sunny Shops were created. Prince of course also had its own sales organization. In 1970 Cherry Shop dealerships were formed to sell the new Nissan Cherry FF car. Apparently there was also a Laurel sales organization for the mid-size sedans.
Nissan Sunny Kyoritsu Sales Co., Ltd. (日産サニー共立販売株式会社) sold more than 30,000 cars.
In time these sales organizations went through various mergers (for example Cherry Shops merged with Prince Shops) and in 1999 most became Nissan Blue Stage or Nissan Red Stage dealerships. Then around 2007 the two separate Red and Blue dealerships merged and are know known as "Nissan Red & Blue Stage" some with signs in English with that literally wording. Note that a few dealers did not merge and so retain unique rights.
Nissan Blue Stage: * Bluebird Shop (ブルーバード販売会社) * Motor Shop (Laurel Sales Shop ローレル販売会社)
Nissan Red Stage: * Prince Shop (プリンス店) * Sunny Shop (サティオ店) * Cherry Shop (チェリー店)
Model Monopoly
Each type of dealership had the right to sell certaion Nissan/Datsun models.
Both Red Stage and Blue Stage sold the following:
ラシーン Rasheen プレセア Presea ステージア Stagea
Nissan Red Stage
Red Stage shops had the monopoly to sell these models:
サニー Sunny フェアレディ Z Fairlady Z スカイライン Skyline セレナ Serena シルビア Sylvia ティーノ Tino バサラ Basara グロリア Gloria パルサー Pulsar プリメーラ Primera ミストラル Mistral
Nissan Blue Stage
Blue Stage shops had the monopoly to sell these models:
ブルーバード Bluebird ダットサン Datsun [Trucks] プレジデント President プレサージュ Presage エクストレイル X-Trail ティアナ Tiana ブルーバードシルフィ Bluebird Sylphy クルー Crew アベニール Avenir シビリアン Civilian セドリック Cedric ルネッサ R'Nessa リバティ Liberty セフィーロ Cefiro ローレル Laurel プリメーラ (セダン/ワゴン) Primera (sedan/wagon) パルサー Pulsar テラノ Terrano アベニール Avenir ハイパーミニ Hypermini