Betcha Didn't Know: Nissan Edition

WORLD•CAR PRESENTS: BETCHA DIDN'T KNOW NISSAN EDITION NISSAN BEFORE NISSAN The company that we all know as Nissan actually started way back in 1914, when it made a car called the DAT, named for the initials of the three guys who founded the company. The DATson was, as you'd guess, the son of DAT, in Japanese "son" sounds like a word that means 'loss" so they used "sun": Datsun became the company's moniker until 1986. In 2012 the brand was revived for use in Indonesia, South Africa, India and Russia. Pictured above is a 1933 Datsun 12. HANDS ON A HARD BODY HANDS 1997'S DOCUMENTARY HANDS ON A HARD BODY: THE DOCUMENTARY IS ABOUT MORE THAN A GROUP OF 24 STRANGERS COMPETING TO WIN A NEW NISSAN TRUCK BY ON A HARD BODY SEEING WHO CAN BECOME THE LAST PERSON STILL STANDING WITH THEIR HAND ON S JE YOU THINK WATCHING ISAID E CAN'T TWO DOZEN PEOPLE TOUCH A TRUCK FOR A LONG TIME C POSSIBLY HOLD YOU'RE INTEREST, YOU'RE QUITE MISTAKEN INDEED. IN FACT, THE MOVIE WAS SO GOOD THAT IT INSPIRED A TONY AWARD-NOMINATED BROADWAY MUSICAL ANEW MUS CRAIGSLIST AD YOU DON'T NEED TO RELEGATE YOUR NISSAN XTERRA TO MUNDANE TASKS SUCH AS GROCERY AND POP WARNER EQUIPMENT TOTING. CONSIDER THIS EXCERPT FROM CRAIGSLIST AD FOR A "NINJA HAULER": 66 IT WILL OUTLIVE YOU AND THE OFFSPRING THAT WILL CARRY YOUR NAME. IT WILL LIVE ON AS A MONUMENT TO YOUR MACHISMO. To SWEETEN THE DEAL A LITTLE, I'M THROWING IN THIS PAIR OF MC HAMMER PANTS FOR THE MAN WITH RIPPLING QUADS THAT CAN'T FIT INTO REGULAR PANTS. YEAH, YOU HEARD ME. FREE MC HAMMER PANTS. BIRTHDAY BANDIT THE YALE DROPOUT/CURRENT DJ KNOWN AS PAZ CRASHED PARIS HILTON's SWANKY 30TH BIRTHDAY PARTY AND STOLE HER $3,20O CAKE AND UTILIZED A NISSAN AS HIS GETAWAY CAR. IN PAZ'S WORDS: "IN ONE FLUID MOTION, I SIDESTEP A CONFUSED WAITER, SEIZE THE PRIZE, AND ABOUT-FACE TO THE DOOR. I PAs THE SECURITY CHIEF AGAIN ON THE WAY OUT. I NOD PURPOSEFULLY. HE NODS IN RETURN. NEST IN A NISSAN FORTY SECONDS LATER I'M IN THE FRONT SEAT BEES HAVE EXCELLENT TASTE, AS EVIDENCED OF A NISSAN MAXIMA WITH 7OLBS OF BY THEIR DECISION TO TAKE UP RESIDENCE IN THE AWESOME IN MY LAP." WHEEL WELL OF A NISSAN MICRA IN A SMALL TOWN IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND THIS PAST SPRING. AROUND 20,000 OF THE INSECTS MOVED IN, BUT ALAS THEIR STAY PROVED TO BE SHORT-LIVED WHEN THE CAR'S OWNER HAD THEM FORCIBLY REMOVED. SHIPPED AND DELIVERED IS THERE ANY GREATER MINI-THRILL THAN OPENING YOUR FRONT DOOR TO SEE A PILE OF PACKAGES WITH YOUR NAME ON THEM? IMAGINE HOW ONE RESIDENT OF MADISON, WISCONSIN, FELT WHEN THE AMAZON BOx HE RECEIVED HELD A 2014 NISSAN VERSA NOTE. THIS CAME AFTER NISSAN AND AMAZON TEAMED UP FOR AN AD CAMPAIGN ON AMAZON'S HOMEPAGE THAT DIRECTED CAR SHOPPERS INTERESTED IN BUYING ONE OF THE VEHICLES BY SIMPLY FILLING OUT A FORM AND CHARGING $16,000 ON THEIR CREDIT CARD. AS EASY AS BUYING THE NEW BOOK BY THE "FREAKONOMICS" GUYS. NAME YOUR PRICE WHAT WOULD YOU DO FOR A BRAND-NEW 370Z? WE ARE MOVED BY MARK PARISI's COMMITMENT TO SCORING A SPECTACULAR RIDE BY THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX, IN EXCHANGE FOR THE "DONATION OF HIS LEFT TESTICLE TO SCIENCE, HE WILL RECEIVE A PROSTHETIC REPLACEMENT AND $35,000, WHICH HE PLANS TO SPEND ON HIS BEAUTIFUL NEW CAR. DEFINITELY WORTH IT ON HIS PART. BUT WE STILL AREN'T SURE IF SCIENCE IS GETTING A FAIR TRADE. HELLO MAXIMA, THE FEMININE VERSION OF MAXIMUS, MY NAME IS IS THE 1704TH MOST POPULAR GIRLS' NAME ON THE SITE NAMEBERRY.COM. WE COULD FIND NO maxima EVIDENCE OF ANY BABY BOYS NAMED ROGUE, BUT WE KINDA DIG THE SOUND OF IT. LET'S MAKE THIS NAME HAPPEN, PEOPLE! GAUGE ON GAUGE ON GAUGE JAPANESE VEHICLES OF THE 1980s WERE BIG ON RANDOM SWITCHES. BUTTONS AND DIALS. CERTAIN NISSANS FROM THE PERIOD CAME WITH DUAL FUEL GAUGES, NOT TO INDICATE THE LEVEL OF DUAL FUEL TANKS, JUST THE ONE. THE PRIMARY GAUGE WAS CONVENTIONAL. WITH A NORMAL SWEEP FROM FULL TO EMPTY. AS YOUR FUEL LEVEL GOT CRITICALLY LoW. THE SECONDARY UNIT'S NEEDLE BEGAN MOVING AND ACTED AS A VIRTUAL MAGNIFYING GLASS OF HOW LITTLE GAS REMAINED. FOR MORE GO TO www.WORLDCAR.COM