Datsun car logos images and Datsun car history

Datsun was an automobile brand. The name was created in 1931 by the DAT Motorcar Company for a new car model, the spelling as "Datson" to indicate its smaller size compared to today's cars, bigger DAT. 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" (损) in Japanese, and also to honor the sun appears on the national flag, hence the name "Datsun": Datta (ダットサン, Datta?). [1]. The Datsun brand was discontinued in March 1986. The Datsun name is the most famous of the sports cars referred to as the Fairlady roadsters and later the Fairlady (240Z) coupes.

The use of the name Datsun in the U.S. market comes from the name used for Nissan vehicles. In fact, the cars produced by Nissan and used the Datsun name, a successful brand in Japan since 1932, long before the Second World War. In fact, before the entry into the U.S. market in 1958, Nissan will not produce cars under the Nissan brand, but trucks only. Their cars always designer home is marked as Datsuns. Therefore, for the executives of Nissan, it would be natural that the name on success in exporting to the U.S. models. Only in the 1960s, Nissan made the start for some car models such as Nissan, and these were limited to high-end models, for example, Cedric luxury sedan. In the U.S., the branch was named Nissan's Nissan Motor Corporation in America, and chartered on 28 September 1960 in California. Nissan has not had problems using the name of Nissan in the U.S., but small cars the company exports to the United States remained the name Datsun.

Corporate Choice for "Datsun", so that the distance of the parents association, the Nissan plant by the Americans with making the Japanese army. In fact, Nissan's participation in Japan's military industry was substantial. Vehicle production company in Yokohama plant shifted to military needs only a few years after the first cars left the assembly line on 11 April 1935. In 1939, Nissan's operations had moved to Manchuria, then under Japanese occupation, where its founder and President, Yoshisuke Ayukawa, Manchuria established the Motor Company for the manufacture of military trucks.

Ayukawa, a well-connected risk taker, aggressive, also became a major partner in the Japanese colonial government of Manchukuo. [2] Ultimately, Nissan Heavy Industries emerged near the end of the war as a major player in the Japanese war machine. After the war ended, the Soviet Union seized all assets of Nissan Manchuria, while the occupation forces took over half the Yokohama plant. General MacArthur had Ayukawa incarcerated for twenty months as a war criminal. After liberation he was banned from returning to any corporate or public office until 1951. He was never allowed to return to Nissan, who returned to the manufacture of passenger vehicles in 1947 to its original name of Nissan Motor Company Ltd. in 1949.

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