{"id":87952,"date":"2022-01-03T12:45:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T12:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=87952"},"modified":"2022-01-12T09:25:51","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T09:25:51","slug":"datsun-240z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/datsun-240z\/","title":{"rendered":"Datsun 240Z"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Recently, the new Nissan 400Z made its debut in the USA as the latest member of the Z family. Unfortunately, this sports car will never make it to Europe, at least through official channels, as Nissan doesn’t homologate it for the EU market due to strict emissions regulations. Thus, the 370Z remains the final model of this long line that was in dealerships worldwide. It all began with the 240Z, which was presented in 1969 under the Datsun brand. This had been around since the 1930s. Shortly after, the Nissan Group bought it and used it mainly for export business in the 1960s and 1970s. The 240Z (in Japan Nissan Fairlady Z, in the USA Datsun Fairlady) was the successor model for the Datsun Sports. At the same time, it is the third famous design by a German designer who had moved from New York to Japan in 1962 on a sudden whim. Albrecht Graf von Goertz drew the 503 and 507 for BMW in the 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A550X became the 2000GT and 240Z<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a freelance designer, he collaborated on a few Nissan designs. However, only the Datsun 240Z really became known internationally afterwards. This was based on the A550X concept car, which Goertz had transformed from sketches into a prototype together with Yamaha. However, his original plan to use the cooperation between Nissan and Yamaha to build the first Japanese supercar came to nothing. Nissan backed out and took only a few of his design sketches. Yamaha looked for a new partner to realize the A550X and finally found one in Toyota. Thus the 2000GT<\/a><\/strong> was born, while at Nissan the head of the sports car design studio, Yoshihiko Matsuo, together with Kazuo Kimura, used some design details of the A550X to create the 240Z. Just in time for the sexual revolution and general free-spiritedness, the sports coup\u00e9 was on its wheels and at the 1969 Tokyo Motor Show. Compared with the Toyota 2000GT, it was considerably roomier and larger.<\/p>\n\n\n

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