Reply #10: Nissan existed in the US then?

[Mugweed]

I don't recall. What I do recall is that I had one of the first cars called Sentra (OK, my dad bought it and I bought it from him a couple years later). It was a 1982, and had a DATSUN logo on the right rear end and a NISSAN logo on the left rear end. I didn't think that Nissan existed in the US market before that. It got 40+ mpg and worked beautifully up until the body rusted out around the still-purring engine in 1996. I can vouch for the mileage because the fuel gauge gave out in 1989 and I was working on math for years. Meanwhile, there have been and continue to be cars with better mpg available in other countries that somehow aren't sold here. I keep hearing Randi Rhodes talk about the 1970-something SAAB that got 60+ mpg, was that sold here in the US? Probably not.