Nissan

During the autumn of 1980 and the winter of 1981, a female newlywed living in Maryland drove to work in a Datsun. She did not then know that she would one day be the mother of two sons. She had no way of knowing that her two sons would live in a world without a Datsun. The company that had once sold Datsuns would instead market the Nissan car.

Once that young woman had become a mother, she quickly learned what most interested her sons. She found that they both took an interest in cars. As toddlers they saw a Nissan 300zx parked in the parking lot behind their apartment building. They did not know that they would one day consider the merits of the Nissan 350z.

Of course the two boys made a point of sharing with each other information about more than one type of Nissan car. They also talked about the Nissan pathfinder and the Nissan maxima. They compared the Nissan truck to a neighbor’s truck. All of the boys’ talking got their mother thinking.

Their mother thought that even though her sons did not do much reading, they might take time to read a Nissan note. Where could she find such a note? The mother purchased a subscription for a magazine filled with facts about automobiles. It offered detailed information on cars such as the Nissan 240sx.

Issues of that magazine appeared in the mailbox during the year when the two boys worked with various car parts, including more than one Nissan part. Sometimes the two of them had reason to stand with their heads above a Nissan motor. Their familiarity with that motor helped the two boys to better judge newer Nissan models.

Later, the two young men could talk knowledgably about the Nissan qashqai, the Nissan almera and the Nissan primera. They made contacts within the automotive industry, and through those contacts the two young men could seek more information. Perhaps they sought out information on the Nissan x-trail.

Maybe they rode in at least one Nissan x-trail. On at least one January weekend the two young men joined friends for some snowboarding. Two years later one of those two young men befriended the owner of a local car dealership.

Both of those young men now face the prospect of sharing their Nissan car knowledge with a teenager. Of course, that will probably not take place for another five to ten years. Will the Nissan almera still be around at that time? What about the future prospects for the Nissan primera or the Nissan 350z?

What sort of cars will those two young men find in the car dealerships that they visit with a daughter, niece or younger friend? Will any of those car dealerships have a Nissan car or a Nissan truck? Maybe there will not be any Nissan for sale at that time. Maybe the manufacturer will have changed the name of the vehicle coming from the factories that had once made a car called a Nissan.