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Nissan had already produced for many decades the successful series of Fairlady roadsters that competed mainly with English and Italian roadsters, and product planners envisioned a new line of GT cars that would be stylish, innovative, fast, and relatively inexpensive through the use of interchangeable parts with other Nissan vehicles. Yutaka Katayama, the president of Nissan USA at the time, realized the importance of an affordable sports car internationally. Yamaha later finished a prototype and took their design to Toyota, resulting in the Toyota 2000GT. By 1964, Nissan realized that Yamaha's DOHC 2.0-liter engine was not meeting Nissan's expectations and the project was scrapped. Nissan executives saw the prototype as a halo car that would improve their company's image in the minds of consumers. It resulted in the prototype Yamaha YX-30 from 1961.
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Nissan was a relatively small automaker when it entered the international market in the 1960s and partnered with Yamaha to design a new sports car prototype to update the Nissan Fairlady. In May 2020, Nissan revealed plans to produce a new Z car. Every Z car has been sold in Japan as the Fairlady Z and elsewhere under the names Nissan S30, Nissan S130, Nissan 300ZX, Nissan 350Z and Nissan 370Z. Enthusiasts praise the cars for their looks, reliability, performance, and affordability. The earlier models of the Nissan Z were built at the Nissan Shatai plant in Hiratsuka until 2000, while the later models (350Z and 370Z) are built at Oppama (2002–2004) and Tochigi (2004–present). Since then, Nissan has manufactured six generations of Z-cars, with the most recent, the Nissan 370Z, in production since 2009.Ĭhief Japanese rivals include the Toyota Celica, Toyota Supra, Mitsubishi 3000GT and Mazda RX-7. However, for export it was initially marketed as the Datsun 240Z. The original Z was sold from October 1969 in Japan, as the Nissan Fairlady Z ( Japanese: 日産・フェアレディZ, Hepburn: Nissan Fearedi Zetto), at Nissan Exhibition dealerships that previously sold the Nissan Bluebird. The Nissan Z-cars are a model series of sports cars that have been manufactured by Nissan Motors Ltd, in seven generations, since 1969.