JDM Trivia #11: Nissan Cima Y31 Mirror Wipers When I thought the Japanese chindogu Side Wipers were the strangest thing that once used to be an accessory on a car I ran into this: Mirror wipers! Will that fit on my Honda? At first I thought that this was another chindogu, in other words: a…
Welcome to JDM Trivia #2! For some time now I have been pondering about the ridiculously long car names for the 80s and 90s JDM cars. I gathered data from various Japanese car manufacturers, made a potential selection of models, looked up their brochures and wrote down the name as advertised. What I did was…
Okay I admit that I love digital dashboards and I surely do love this Nissan Leopard F31 dashboard! If you look at the complexity of it Nissan must have spent a fortune on getting these LCD displays fault free. 😉 The boot-up test sequence shows about everything the display can show you: Not much more…
Nissan was forward thinking on their flagship the Nissan Leopard F31 back in 1986: it featured a keyless entry card! Earlier Glorias and Cedrics already featured pin-code like systems, but they keyless entry card is going way further than that! This card has the size of a credit card and the thickness of a modern…
When the Nissan Leopard TR-X (pronounced Tri-X) F30 was launched it clearly was aimed to fight off the Toyota Chaser GX61 (sedan and hatchback) and Toyota Soarer MZ10 (coupe) with this all new technology platform from Nissan. This Nissan Leopard TR-X coupe really was promoted as an American highway capable grand tourer coupe. The first…
Previously I thought the Nissan Cedric Y30 V3.0 Turbo Brougham VIP was supposed to be the longest name given to a car ever, but I stand corrected with this Nissan Leopard 870 Ultima GF31 3.0 V6 Twin Cam (intelligent adult coupe): The Nissan Leopard GF31 is a typical mid 80s luxurious grand tourer and continuously…