never said from that era
not sure the forum supports gif's, you brought up Porsche I know what you mean as I drive one as daily no need to call me a troll
You brought up Porsche,it has a ton of options, the GTR today still has limited options, Nissan never learnt. When my GTR was imported in 07 the UK Nissan wasn't planning to offer the options I could get in Japan. I ended up changing the Premium edition so it ended up being identical to my car once the UK office saw itI'm not calling you a troll, but what relevance does your current, modern, daily driver Porsche have to the context of the discussion?
You brought up Porsche,it has a ton of options, the GTR today still has limited options, Nissan never learnt. When my GTR was imported in 07 the UK Nissan wasn't planning to offer the options I could get in Japan. I ended up changing the Premium edition so it ended up being identical to my car once the UK office saw it
Yes, but the driver was to make a car for the US market, the interior of the S30 is big enough for US people. I know the real creation story for the last GTR and its different to what Nissan says in public. The sales guy made a difference (was the JDM 2lt that good?). I work in big company it works the same wayYou're almost making my point for me. All the "made for the USA" stuff (you've got Katayama phoning-in his request for a new sports car like my next door neighbour orders up his yukky Papa John's pizzas) seems either oblivious to - or willing to ignore - the fact that all other markets got sportier, more sophisticated and - yes! - more powerful and faster variants to choose from.
Japan's home market clearly got the cream of the crop, and why wouldn't it?
Yes, but the driver was to make a car for the US market...
Well in my view and no doubt some will want me tared and feathered for saying it if it was not for the success of the Z sales in America I doubt whether the z series would have carried on to be produced
And if it so happened that Mr K was head of Nissan/Datsun in the States at that time his role was instrumental in the what cars be it pickups, sedans and Zs were imported and sold in the States
Take the amount of Zs being sold in the States out of the equation and I do not think it would have been a viable option to carry on with the production of the Z as we know it
I'm going to wash the porker...
And if it so happened that Mr K was head of Nissan/Datsun in the States at that time his role was instrumental in the what cars be it pickups, sedans and Zs were imported and sold in the States
everybody is allowed an opinion but please don't bully others if they have a different one... still not convincedCan you name any Nissan model that was only sold in the USA whilst Katayama was President of NMC USA? I'm finding it hard to think of one.
Katayama's influence has been overstated. Yes he was an important character, a KEY player in the expansion of the dealer network and surrounding systems in the Western Division of NMC USA, but he was not a product planner, designer, stylist or engineer and he had no official remit to influence those aspects of the company's business. He is often given credit for things that would have happened with or without him. They would have happened because of the sheer momentum of the business and because the economics of the time made them so. By the late 1970s NMC USA would find itself with new challenges that were partly a legacy of their previous success. All the "thanks Mr K!" stuff doesn't address any of that...
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everybody is allowed an opinion but please don't bully others if they have a different one... still not convinced
You talk about the president but I Have only seen one over here and I should imagine that that there are a lot of people who have never seen one