MotorWeek | Retro Review: '83 Nissan Pulsar NX

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  @pmafterdark · 3 years ago

  I remember these back in the 80's. Hard to believe it's been 40 years.

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  @martinjackson165 · 10 years ago

  I actually owned this car and loved it. Wish I could find it in my area now.

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  @ThomasTalbotMD · 6 years ago

  That was my 2nd car in high school.  Had a baby blue one with racing stripes & blue corduroy seats.  Nice.  It had plenty of room and we could even fit a 15 year old in the trunk to sneak in drive in.  They got fuel injection & turbo later on. My '83 was branded both as a Datsun and a Nissan - a transitional year.

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  @MaestroTJS · 11 years ago

  My father owned the two-door version of the Sentra John keeps talking about in the video (a 1984, though).  I remember thinking how much cooler the Pulsar looked--hey, I was 7 when he bought the Sentra.  This thing can't be mistaken for coming from any decade other than the '80's, it's something of an epitomization of the decades' favourite styling cues.

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  @lilibethdoherty295 · 3 years ago

  I had to push start one of these 40 years ago and did not know how light they were and I had to chase the car down and jump in the car to pop the clutch to get it started,  no good deed ever goes unpunished !

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  @initial3615 · 4 years ago

  These little things are so underrated. id rock one of these things after sitting in one its like a flash back to the early 80s good daily

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  @dave1956 · 4 years ago

  I think that this an era that we have strayed too far away from. Vehicles today are just too big and expensive.

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  @reggiedennis5331 · 4 years ago

  I seriously wish cars were made like this now! Everything looks like a round space ship. These cars had "character" which appealed to all of us back then.

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  @reviewyourownadventure2083 · 7 years ago

  I had the 85 model of this car. One of the best cars I ever owned. Not fast with that little sewing machine E16 engine but damn fun to drive regardless. These were pretty cool little cars for what they were. It's a shame Nissan won't make anything like this again.

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  @darink300zx · 4 years ago

  I had one of the mentioned 4 door hatchbacks and one of the turbo models after that. I liked them both but the turbo was definitely more fun. Not fast by today’s standards but for a 17 yr old kid in 88, it was plenty peppy and fun for me.

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  @Sincroixsketches · 5 years ago

  Love driving this baby around my work

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  @Doobie1975 · 6 years ago

  I actually saw a first generation Nissan Pulsar for sale in Kennewick, WA and the car appeared to be in great shape.

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