Every Nissan Model EVER Made Explained in 17 Minutes
You probably think Nissan's story started in the 1950s. You're wrong. From a secret 1914 luxury car to the Datsun that humiliated Porsche — to Godzilla embarrassing Ferraris at a third of the price — this is the full Nissan history, every model ever made, from 1914 to 2026. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 TIMESTAMPS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 — The secret origin: DAT Car 1914 & the name curse 02:00 — Datsun Type 11: The legal loophole that didn't need a license 04:00 — Datsun Type 14: Japan's first real assembly line car 05:30 — Nissan Model 70: The American engine Nissan copied from Detroit 07:00 — Tama Electric (1947): The Tesla nobody remembers — with swappable batteries 09:00 — Datsun 1000: Nissan hid its own name to enter the US market 11:00 — Datsun 510: The $1,996 car that humiliated Porsche in Trans-Am 13:30 — Datsun 240Z: The fastest-selling sports car in history — $3,526 16:00 — Datsun B210: 50 MPG during the 1973 oil crisis 18:00 — Nissan 300ZX Z32: The Lamborghini Diablo wears Nissan headlights 20:30 — Nissan 240SX: The secretary's car that accidentally invented drift culture 22:30 — Nissan 350Z: The car that saved Nissan from total bankruptcy 25:00 — Nissan GT-R R35: $69,850 vs Ferraris costing 3x the price 27:30 — Nissan LEAF: Beat Tesla to the mass EV market by 2 years 29:00 — Nissan Z 2023: A love letter to the 240Z — 400 HP, 6-speed manual 30:30 — Nissan Ariya: Zero buttons, motorized console, Tokyo apartment on wheels ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔑 KEY FACTS IN THIS VIDEO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ The Datsun 240Z (1970) sold over 520,000 units — the fastest-selling sports car in history at launch. (Source: Nissan USA Heritage / NissanUSA.com) ▸ The Nissan GT-R R35 lapped the Nürburgring in 7:26.70 in 2009 — beating the Porsche 911 Turbo's 7:38. Launched at $69,850. (Source: Nissan Global Press Release, May 2009) ▸ The Lamborghini Diablo facelift (1999) used headlights purchased under license from the Nissan 300ZX Z32 — covering the Nissan logo with a carbon fiber tab. (Source: Carscoops / AutoEvolution) ▸ The Nissan LEAF reached 400,000 global sales before any Tesla model — first delivered December 2010, Model 3 arrived 2017. (Source: Nissan Global Press) ▸ The Tama Electric Car (1947) had a 40-mile range and swappable battery crates — 63 years before the LEAF. ▸ Nissan's GT-R R35 production ended February 2025. The R36 successor is in development. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for a new car brand history every week. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #NissanHistory #GodzillaNissan #CarHistory
