{"id":22215,"date":"2019-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/nissan-240rs-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:08:39","slug":"nissan-240rs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/nissan-240rs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nissan 240RS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From the mid-1970s the preparatory work on the third model generation of the sports coup\u00e9 Silvia started at Nissan in Japan. Up to then this model was only known on the Japanese market and in North America, where it was baptized ‘200SX’. The new generation was originally planned with a rotary engine, but this concept was rejected after various technical problems during the development occured. Finally the Japanese brand saddled for a conventional piston engine. The only thing left of the original idea was the internal code S110, which was shared with Mazda, where it was used for the first ever sports coup\u00e9 with a rotary engine, the Cosmo Sport. In 1979, the third generation of the Silvia rolled to the dealerships in Japan and, again as 200SX, in Canada and the US as well as in Mexico (as Datsun Sakura). It was available with a hatchback or as a Hardtop-Coup\u00e9 with a notchback.

When the motorsports authority FIA wrote rules for the Group B in the World Rally Championship, Nissan\/Datsun reflected on previous successes with various models like the Violet. A new works team was created together with the British team Bill Blydenstein Racing as Nissan Team Europe. They used the Silvia Hardtop-Coup\u00e9 as a base vehicle and implanted a 2.4-liter inline four-cylinder engine. Although Nissan already worked at an all-wheel drive system, they kept the rear-wheel drive of the normal Silvia. During the design phase of the 240RS in 1982, however, they didn’t trust the AWD and thought it wouldn’t help them on the rally tracks – a mistake made by many competitors of the time. For the construction of the 200 homologation cars and the offshoots for rallying they used a loophole in the regulatory requirements of Northern Ireland, where such a small number of vehicles based on an existing model didn’t need new type approval. Therefore, most rally 240RS’s actually carried licenseplates from Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n

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