Albrecht
Well-Known Forum User
I've always thought that story didn't seem to make any sense. I suspect a bigger concern was the fact that - in vivid living memory - allied soldiers had seen lots of Japanese army trucks with the name 'Nissan' on them, and that using the Nissan name on any export market products might bring back some rather unpleasant memories.......
As for bringing back the Datsun brand name, I don't think it would be a good idea really. Plenty of people in north America seem to feel very nostalgic about the 'Datsun' name, but I suspect the vast majority of them don't fully understand that the 'Datsun' branded products they are nostalgic for were actually Nissans wearing a Datsun badge. As for Europe, it's a different problem altogether. Over here in the UK, the 'Datsun' brand name is the target of some derision and - what with Octav Botnar and his crew down in Worthing - has got quite a lot of, er, baggage associated with it.
As for bringing back the Datsun brand name, I don't think it would be a good idea really. Plenty of people in north America seem to feel very nostalgic about the 'Datsun' name, but I suspect the vast majority of them don't fully understand that the 'Datsun' branded products they are nostalgic for were actually Nissans wearing a Datsun badge. As for Europe, it's a different problem altogether. Over here in the UK, the 'Datsun' brand name is the target of some derision and - what with Octav Botnar and his crew down in Worthing - has got quite a lot of, er, baggage associated with it.