DATSUN 240Z

Designed by Yoshihiko Matsuo and a Nissan team, the concept for this car came from Yutaka Katayama, president of Nissan Motors USA operations.

 

This sleek streamlined, long-nosed sports car came with fitted with 2.4 liter engine, manual choke, 4-speed manual transmission and 151 horsepower.  The 240Z used twin SU-style Hitachi one-barrel side-draft carburetors. 

 

All variants have four-wheel independent suspension consisting of MacPherson struts in front (borrowed from the Nissan Laurel C30) and Chapman struts in back. Front disc brakes and rear drums were standard.

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The Tokyo marketing division called it the Datsun Fairlady 240Z.  The Japanese cars retained the title but it was felt the name wouldn't do well in the American market.

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