Originally a car called the DAT was built in 1914.

The car's name was an acronym of the company's partners' surnames:

* Kenjiro Den
* Rokuro Aoyama
* Meitaro Takeuchi

The firm was renamed in 1925, to the DAT Motorcar Co.

It was in 1931 when DAT came out with a new smaller car, that the first "Datson", meaning "Son of DAT", was finally built. This was the actual beginning on the Datsun brand name.

Later, in 1933 after Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. took control of DAT Motorcar Co., the last syllable of Datson was changed to "sun", because "son" also means "loss" (損) in Japanese, hence the name "Datsun"

I think the Datsun name has a better reputation than Nissan. Hope they don't bring the name back so nissan corporate can drag it into the mud with the current nissan organization.

Hmm... well that is based from reading "Z, 35years of Nissans sports car". But the DAT and DATSON do ring bells...

i thaught the first datsun was originally a DAT ( around 1910) then they changes to DATSON ( in 1930) then in 1932 changes to DATSUN because DATSON sounded like 'to lose money'

also i was reading that somewhere in Europe they actually were traiding under datsun but i think now they have changed
thay had like datsun nivaras etc can any one confirm this though

Quote:You know very little about the history of Datsun. Datsun was a Japan-only name to begin with. Only after 20 years or so did they export Datsuns, and that was years before a single Nissan-badged car was ever exported.

Read about it here in our club wiki: Datsun.

i rember this rumor from 2 years ago. as toyota did with sircon and mercedees with smart cars, nissan were looking at bringing back datsun for low end affordable models to not tarnish the nissan brand name.

The move was/.is designed to sell affordable cars to the masses, at a cut price level. I just think Daewoo Matiz. But suzuki is keeping its name and will be importing from india... expect similar saftey issues as Holden is having with Daewoo sourced barinas.

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I think Nissan already has Infinity for the fancy cars like Toyota has Lexus.

There was talk of the Nissan Cube being released as a datsun last year.

Well the name Datsun was only ever a export name. To protect the Nissan name back in Japan if they never took off or got a bad rep. In Japan, all Nissans were Nissans.

I cant see a reason for them changing the name. As said before they are a major player and have no trouble with sales with the Nissan name.

That's why we come to this site ... and not that one.

You want rumours? Visit Nissan Forums!

Yeah i didn't think of that.

2010 model 1200's!!!

Wicked................Maybe!!!!

Trav