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Interesting to see that at 66,655 units, the pickup outsold every other SINGLE model by a wide margin in that year.

Of course, when you add up all of the different 510 models it's another story, [105,023 units] but the pickup still romps home in second place.
Interesting too is the fact that the
510 wagon [42,654 units] outsold both the
510 four door sedan [37,485 units] & the
510 two door sedan [24,884 units]
These wagons are quite uncommon here in Australia to the point almost of being rare.

The 120Y would have to be up there, they were everywhere in the seventies.

Re: USA, here's some hard facts for one year: 1971. This is a great year to compare because it was a full year for the 240Z, 510, B110 and 521.



Datsun USA Sales, 1971

Quote:Perhaps, but the 2-dr was still sold through the 1973 model year. reference: Datsunhistory.com 510

Quote:Probably the most loved, on the other hand I've seen stated that the Miata has been the best selling sports car ever.

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Miata approaches 700,000 in 2004
Z-car sold more than 1,000,000 in less than a decade
Corvette sold over 1,000,000 in 25 years

The sentra came into production in 1982, was not much to it at first ,but sold alot of them. then they got very popular and are still in production today,and very sporty now. Like the sentra SE-R

i thought it would be the 510 (1600) or the Z... atleast here in america

As people have stated, it changes differently from country to country. What is the sentra? The only photos or info on sentras ive seen is a newish (post 90s) sedan/saloon model....

B120Dat, your probably right in saying the 1200 Ute would be the most exported vehicle due to its versatility & everyone loves them!
Im in the same boat, my sunny has Nissan/Datsun stamped on the side but always think of it as a Datsun!

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I thought that production of the P510 ended in 1972? And was the Bluebird SSS included in that list i wonder....?

Sooooo really, the Z car would be the most sold/loved sports car around the world i reckon, and the 120Y/B310 the most cheap afordable car & the 1200 Ute most versatile/exported... Sound bout right?

Anymore facts & figures.....
A good history lesson!
Dave

in the caribbean the most popular datsuns before '85 were the 1200s & 120ys(b210 & b310).they were cheap and very neat lookimg cars.they were popular in barbados and trinidad and still are.

there's more b11 and b12 sentra(sunny) here in the US than probably every datsun ever sold. The cheap cars dominate the numbers, followed by utilitarian things ( oddly utes ) and finally the much less common sporty cars.

in terms of what cars people have a passion for: 2*0z(x) and 510's.

210's and 200sx are not cars many here are passionate about. It seems that there are a very small number of 210's that are owned by someone in the $$ enough to pamper them. Most of those seem to be race cars, where they are spoiled.

I had an 83 sunny and it was the same with that, I'd have to give the parts away. Nobody that owns one wants to spend any money on them.

So we're really lucky we have any 210 aftermarket support.

If your talking about up to 85 in the U.S. it might be a close race between the Z, 210,& sentra. Not everybody could afford to buy the Z- car so I guessing it would be between the 210, and the sentra.