Datsun: Coming Back?

[Komisiripala]

WE don't want anothe Getz/passo/alto! Bring back the z's and 510's!!

[Amila_Silva]

The Homer, the Cedric, the Fairlady...oh happy days....I can't wait to see the Datsun marque back....I've still got half-a-litre of rust convertor and a few cans of Bondo doing nothing at the back of the shed

Are there any Datsun Fairlady models in Sri Lanka?

[Komisiripala]

Are there any Datsun Fairlady models in Sri Lanka?

quite a few. the 240's and 260's. even gangarama haamuduruwo has one. but no first gen coupes, AFAIK

[Sampath Gunasekera]

http://paultan.org/2014/04/15/datsun-on-do-sedan-russia/

[iRage]

http://paultan.org/2014/04/15/datsun-on-do-sedan-russia/

Personally I find the on-Do so ugly that it should be a No-do

[Gummybr]

Personally I find the on-Do so ugly that it should be a No-do

I think its a rebadged Dacia of old. Not the direction one would have gone if it was a global car, but being Russian ok I guess.

[iRage]

You can find the official press release over here (it is by default tucked away until you click on show press release):

http://www.autoblog.com/2014/04/08/datsun-on-do-budget-sedan-russia-video-official/

From what I can decipher what is being said without being said is that it was engineered and designed by AVTOVAZ and then given the finishing touches by Nissan Japan ?

Since AVTOVAZ (owned by Renault-Nissan ?) does Lada I guess the on-Do will be based on a Lada ? read somewhere sometime back that Darcia is trying ot get rid of its cheap/budget brand image but then again they did use it for Datsun's cross-over.