A couple of Nissan SR20's would pull a premium one week before race wars. - J. Tran
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@Motorweek3 жыл бұрын
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@palebeachbum5 жыл бұрын
That's actually pretty good looking for a 1987 car. I miss the 80's/90's REAL Nissans.
@barryervin85365 жыл бұрын
I was thinking the same thing, it is nice looking. Unlike the vaguely Asian looking B-210 or the hideous F-10.
@skylinefever5 жыл бұрын
Most people don't miss the 1985-1988 Nissan Maxima.
@palebeachbum5 жыл бұрын
@@skylinefever it talked to you! That was a pretty cool novelty of that era that select few cars had.
@nate6785 жыл бұрын
I had a 91 Sentra SE-R . That was a fun little car. Twin cam, limited slip differential,7500k redline
@palebeachbum5 жыл бұрын
@@nate678 everyone I've ever come across who owned an SE-R loved it and miss it. I hear they were really reliable too. God I miss old Nissan.
@tinkynine33515 жыл бұрын
I miss pre- French Nissan.
@Tool0GT925 жыл бұрын
You are going to trigger Scotty Kilmer.
@MaestroTJS5 жыл бұрын
= reliable Nissan
@chargermaster5865 жыл бұрын
Renault Nissan 2019 Datsun pre 1984
@brianbfree23285 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@MaestroTJS5 жыл бұрын
@@chargermaster586 Not exactly sure what you are getting at in your message, but while we're on the topic, Datsun had a better brand identity than Nissan. (Yes, I understand they were one and the same, but Nissan never recovered after dropping the Datsun brand name and image.)
@rightlanehog31515 жыл бұрын
When Nissan was still Nissan.
@emeyer69635 жыл бұрын
And not too far gone from the Datsun days
@chinomoreno42215 жыл бұрын
Yeah, now they build junk like the GTR, infiniti G, and 370z....
@skylinefever5 жыл бұрын
In 1987, the Maxima definitely wasn't as good as it should have been. It wouldn't be until 1989 that the Maxima was good again.
@emeyer69635 жыл бұрын
@@skylinefever 89' redesign was fantastic.I was selling them when they were new down in Florida and we had a waiting list of people who were willing to pay $2000 over list to get one.
@salvadorreynoso78095 жыл бұрын
Truth be told better than pintos Vegas and the rest of American made "economy" cars
@boss125 жыл бұрын
Good old tape tracking‼️
@vaderiusa4 жыл бұрын
Sony 3/4 SP
@brianbfree23285 жыл бұрын
Those VHS tracking lines really do it for me!😂 Long live the 80's!
@undefinedname13985 жыл бұрын
Car companies usually get better with age, unfortunately Nissan isn't one of them.
@lifesucks38355 жыл бұрын
I love my newer nissan
@ShaiyanHossain5 жыл бұрын
Nissan was great when the japanese economy was booming after the recession they resorted to cost cutting and what not and they still havent recovered
@miguelircontar5 жыл бұрын
I have 2019 Altima SR no complaints here and my sister has a 2016 SR 70K Miles still running fine
@QuantumJ675 жыл бұрын
The merger with Renault has decreased quality and reliability.
@mykejohnson5825 жыл бұрын
@@ShaiyanHossain I agree had way cooler cars back then, i missed the Pulsar, the Stanza, 240Sx, and this sport Sentra.
@CleanSC5 жыл бұрын
Nothing takes me back like real VHS tape tracking artifacts. Not even a 20-second 1/4 mile!
@wiibaron5 жыл бұрын
At that speed, you'd never get all the way back anyways...BETA!!
@bendavis97335 жыл бұрын
U-Matic
@vwestlife5 жыл бұрын
VHS was never used for television production. In the 1980s, the most popular professional videotape formats were Betacam (similar to, but higher quality than consumer-grade Betamax) and U-Matic.
@kz1000ps5 жыл бұрын
Yep, this is straight from the tape, probably U-Matic but maybe first gen Betacam
@marcusdamberger5 жыл бұрын
@@kz1000ps Judging by the color breakup (mostly green) I would also believe straight Betacam format. As Betacam SP had only come out in 86' as an upgrade to the format. I wouldn't expect Maryland public television to already invest in a new tape format so quickly. Betacam had only come out in 82'. So I suspect MPT would have bought Beta gear by mid 80's and dropped U-Matic. Beta in any format was expensive gear to buy, so they would have wanted to use their investment at least a few years before getting upgrade gear. It's not like public broadcasters were cash rich by any means. Their needs tended to outweigh their means most of the time, unless there was some public infusion of money for some major project. But those take years to plan.
@iSlandeRon5 жыл бұрын
Whenever I need a good laugh I always can depend on motorweek's 1980s 0 to 60 times.
@emeyer69635 жыл бұрын
My girlfriend back then wanted one of these so bad.Went and test drove an automatic one day and said no thanks.The Escort GT I had at the time felt like a Jet airplane in comparison.
@danielreigada15425 жыл бұрын
My old man reply to that is "you don't need a ton of horsepower or a sub 5 second 0 to 60 time to have a car that's enjoyable to drive"
@alphatrion1004 жыл бұрын
@@emeyer6963automatic....
@davidaubin39025 жыл бұрын
3:01 John: Angled speaker cabinets make arm resting impossible! LOL
@oliverdelgado69524 жыл бұрын
That fad didn't last long
@MikeT-ki4yx5 жыл бұрын
I had one just like this in college- red with the black trim. Bought it used in 1990 and put well over 100k miles on it with hardly any problems. It was a great car, and this video brings some great memories. Yea it was very slow but that probably helped me keep my license as a foolish college kid. Thanks for posting.
@manthony2255 жыл бұрын
Wrap around rear window: my favorite styling cue of the 80's.
@coldduck11092 жыл бұрын
The terrible thing is when it get broken hard to find .
@franklynordz40305 жыл бұрын
I still have my 2 doors 1988 Sentra I bought it new and with only 89,000 miles NO rust, I'm glad I listened to my mom when I was only 19 y/o lol
@McBeamer945 жыл бұрын
With the exception of the rear glass canopy, the whole car looks like a Fox Mustang. Some of these are still around where I live (Greece), but with the 'Sunny' name.
@alex_k14105 жыл бұрын
Mafioso Italiano. I’m going to Greece this summer, I’ll be on the lookout for them! :)
@tmmurphy5 жыл бұрын
I never noticed that until you pointed it out. I always thought these were great looking cars and always wanted one. They were never common where I lived and I ended up with a Trans Am and a Fox Mustang GT. I only mention them because maybe I bought the Mustang because it looked like the Sentra SE I always wanted. I still have the Ford, but if I found an SE in decent shape, I'd buy it.
@davidg40265 жыл бұрын
What? It doesn't look anything like a fox body Mustang! I'm guessing you were born after 1990, cause anyone who lived through the '80s would never equate those two cars.
@McBeamer945 жыл бұрын
@@davidg4026 I didn't equate the Sentra to the Mustang. I just expressed an opinion on styling, as a viewer who knows a thing or two about cars. Besides, John Davis himself once said that the Fox Mustang interior is Japanese in execution! :-P And yes, you are right: I was born in '94!
@McBeamer945 жыл бұрын
@@alex_k1410 Heheheh! I've seen 5 examples! 1 white and 2 grays in my hometown and 2 reds in Athens, all having the same nice factory set of alloy wheels (edit: they have almost the same design as the wheels shown here but they are fancier, with larger square holes)! And none of them has black bumpers, they all have unicolor bumpers! Also, they all have a nice discreet black spoiler on the hatch! It's a good looking car, with its low stance and because I don't see them every day, I tend to stare at them for more than usual! Moreover, their owners care about them so we see them in decent shape! Perhaps they may've recognized it's a rare sight to behold!
@amacl105 жыл бұрын
5:05 anyone else notice the distortion around the hazard lights?
@nlpnt5 жыл бұрын
Eleven grand loaded! That would be close to a base Acura Integra with 16 valves and multi-point EFI. No wonder these were so much rarer than the low-trim-level sedans and the fastback wagon.
@angryshoebox5 жыл бұрын
The 0-60 time definitely follows. My mom had an '86 Sentra sedan with automatic transmission. Nice car, reliable, but painfully slow when time to enter a freeway.
@hnlpharmdАй бұрын
Yep, my parents bought an automatic '87 Sentra sedan brand new, and I drove it as a hand-me-down for a couple of years after I got my license in '93. The acceleration was absolutely abominable, like something you would measure on a geologic timescale.
@tomj47315 жыл бұрын
I owned a 1987 Corolla without power steering and with 74 HP. It is still my favorite car...fun to drive, great steering feel and I never felt it was underpowered. It only weighed 2100 pounds.
@rightlanehog31515 жыл бұрын
Now the Corolla weighs approximately 1,000 lbs more. My 88 Mercury Tracer was a hot hatch with over 80 hp!
@barryervin85365 жыл бұрын
My 86 Escort GT had 108 hp. It was a Rocketship! LOL!
@trevagraham16055 жыл бұрын
@@barryervin8536 I had an 87 Escort GT. I loved that car!!!
@barryervin85365 жыл бұрын
I bought my 86 GT new, and liked it until it started to fall apart in about a year. When the paint started to flake off at about 20,000 miles I got rid of it. That was the least amount of time I ever kept a car. Never owned another Ford product.
@trevagraham16055 жыл бұрын
@@barryervin8536 I had a totally different experience with mine. My cousin got the escort as a gift in 95. He drove it until 2001 and gave it to me because he was going to the millitary. It was never my daily driver, but when he gave it to me it had 150K miles on it and I put another 80K on it and the only thing I ever did to it was change the timing belt, clutch, and ignition coil. I totaled it going to work in the snow in 2009. I got t-boned by a Silverado. That car never left me stranded.
@rightlanehog31515 жыл бұрын
Motorweek, You did not specify which Melville novel to read during those quarter mile endurance runs.
@iSlandeRon5 жыл бұрын
With Those 0 to 60 times I would guess the longest one!
@drivedb75 жыл бұрын
Right Lane Hog: Moby-Dick.
@xsduprwd39375 жыл бұрын
all of them.
@buddhull4 жыл бұрын
I used to enjoy Joseph Campbell’s Hero With A Thousand Faces during my onramp acceleration adventures in the old trusty 1986 Pulsar Sentra N12
@kbdw73045 жыл бұрын
I love these retro reviews
@clintonlyle79225 жыл бұрын
Love to see the old school American Tourister luggage 🧳 not a roller bag to be found. 😆
@vossler3605 жыл бұрын
I've found that people who are unfamiliar with cars from the 1980s have a difficult time believing that a sub ten second 0-60 time was considered relatively quick, at least for the everyday cars of that era. But it's good to know that even this "sporty" Sentra SE from 1987 with a 15.5 second 0-60 was never considered quick, even when it was new.
@beb15275 жыл бұрын
Eric Shea press the gas pedal down all the way and the engine gets louder, that’s about it. Were mustang 5.0’s and corvettes even sub 6 second for 0-60 back then?
@twoeightythreez6 ай бұрын
@@beb1527nope, around 8 seconds for a stock LX5.0
@billgee025 жыл бұрын
"Hey Grandpa...what's a carburetor"? - ahhh the good old old days...
@yessitsme68845 жыл бұрын
My first car! Got mine in 96 so it was already a bit old. Man was it slow, but I loved it.
@marcusdamberger5 жыл бұрын
Was it rusting already by '96? These 80's Japanese cars had very little rust protection. You hardly see anymore because of this.. '89 Nissan Sentra was the first car I drove in driver's ed. Then within a few weeks they replaced all the Nissan sentras with Chevy Corsicas. Those were pieces of junk, I don't see those on the road anymore at all. Throw away Chevy cars..
@yessitsme68845 жыл бұрын
@@marcusdamberger Of course it was! It had been repainted at least once already. Didn't rust anywhere as bad as the 2010 Ford Escape I bought in 2015 though.
@shaf8115 жыл бұрын
In the UK Nissan sentra are known as the Nissan Sunny Coupé. my dad had brought one back in the early 90's a white one with fake turbo badge an emblem, (trending in 90's UK). It come with a 1.6 motor, manual transmission pushing an earth earth-shattering power of 90hp. They are rarely seen on the roads of Britain nowadays.
@Thenevisian5 жыл бұрын
I still remember to this day when my cousin bought one of these right off the showroom floor. It was red and black. So sleek looking
@klnikfar5 жыл бұрын
The red ones were super nice!
@stickshiftelitist56835 жыл бұрын
when Nissan made good cars
@mykejohnson5825 жыл бұрын
Yeah i missed the Pulsar, Stanza, 240Sx, and that sporty Sentra-SE type. hate the Altima, the Stanza was much more fitting.
@neuideas5 жыл бұрын
TRS 80 Model II at the desk.
@PrinceMoonbeam5 жыл бұрын
I noticed that too! Didn't realize they were still around in '87.
@tmmurphy5 жыл бұрын
@@PrinceMoonbeam Lol Trash 80
@MrJimbo6665 жыл бұрын
I love this Sentra.. would of been great if it came with the Pulsar SE's CA16DE which would of make it a real sport compact.
@LucuszLemski5 жыл бұрын
Dunno in USA, but in Europe you got CA18DE in these just shy of 130 HP. 0-60 in 8.0 sec. They still about. I own one with GA16 95 HP.
@mi777ke7775 жыл бұрын
All the new cool builds that show up in my feed and I immediately go to click this Sentra vid from Motorweek. lol Simply the best.
@bingoberra185 жыл бұрын
Damn I saw one of these today and had to take a picture of it and now you upload it, definately needs to pay the premium for an SR20 if you dont want to loose your pinks though!
@barryervin85365 жыл бұрын
Gages are lacking. No volts or oil pressure. At least it has a temp gage, unlike many cars today.
@AWDfreak5 жыл бұрын
That is precisely why I always have to buy an OBD-2 scanner for these newer vehicles. Almost all the vehicles at my household do not have a proper engine (water) coolant temperature gauge. Just an idiot light that shows if the temperature is below 120 Fahrenheit, or if the engine is about to overheat (warning the driver when it is already too late).
@MrCarguy25 жыл бұрын
Now we see cars with literal no gauges! People who come from the 70's cars would get a stroke
@blue_lancer_es5 жыл бұрын
@@AWDfreak my scion xa i wired the temp light to a buzzer so when i and if it gets hot the new owner is going to shit his pants. Forgot to tell him that. Oopps
@chuckycheese843 жыл бұрын
and John doesn't complain about the gauges nowadays
@nethalus4 жыл бұрын
Here in the UK we got a twin cam unit in the top Sunny coupe as it was called herem and even the top flight hatch had the same unit, and even the base model had all round electric windowsa, central locking and a sunroof, plus a standard Blaupunkt stereo with
@jorgeamchz69425 жыл бұрын
Aqui en Mexico se vendió bajo el nombre de Nissan hikari, greetings from Jalisco Mexico.
@mph58965 жыл бұрын
Parents had one back in the day. 3 kids, 2 adults, 3 dogs towing a popup camper was a great weekend. HA.
@Trance885 жыл бұрын
I can't say for sure I've ever seen one of these in my 30 year existence. The majority of these cars were probably all rusted away here in Michigan by 1997.
@marshalmagooo38995 жыл бұрын
They were nice little coupes rusted out way to early
@immature19905 жыл бұрын
Classic Nissan before the cvts came into place
5 жыл бұрын
CVTs get a bad rep, but I like mine in my Altima. 0-60 in under 7 secs with the 3.5 V6.
@rogerigez214 жыл бұрын
Brent Lee, they get a bad rep for a reason. There’s been numerous lawsuits you know...
@BReal-10EC5 жыл бұрын
That as tested price is crazy for 1987. We visited Atlanta back around that time because my older brother was going to art school there, and I was stunned by all the Mitsubishi Cordias running around Atlanta. Seeing what this cost with some popular options and how slow it still is... and checking and seeing the top of the line 1987 Cordia TURBO (110hp) msrp was under 11.4k, I can see why they were selling so many Cordias back then where you had good Mitsubishi dealer support. My area (East Tennessee) was Nissan country though. These boxy Sentras were everywhere. Heck, I still see a few here and there today.
@davidm57075 жыл бұрын
And I actually had one of those Cordias in Atlanta for a couple of years. It was a good car, too. Probably an '83, the first year they sold under their own name. Until I could get an MR2 (their first year, also).
@user-yx8xv8lx2q5 жыл бұрын
Love these retro episodes
@2BArchives5 жыл бұрын
70 hp 94 lbs ft 0-60 15.5 1/4 mile 20 sec @ 68 mph Derp
@s3trios5 жыл бұрын
There are now E bicicyles that can do the 1/4 mile around 16secs
@beb15275 жыл бұрын
I learned to drive a manual transmission on the prior gen sentra (1984). To this date, it's the only car I had to ever downshift to maintain a speed on a highway incline. Yes, at 60 MPH in 5th gear, the car was slowing down even with the pedal all the way down going up on a bridge.
@vel69795 жыл бұрын
That’s slow as hell 😂
@iSlandeRon5 жыл бұрын
And just remember those hilarious 0 to 60 time to do it with a manual can you imagine what automatic would’ve been
@B3Quattro5 жыл бұрын
Not sure what everyone is expecting from a 8v four cylinder TBi 80's econobnox... Lol With that being said, it would've been nice if Nissan put the CA16DE or CA18DE in these for the US market. They were already offering that engine in the Pulsar NX SE here...seems kinda like a wasted opportunity especially since the hot hatch segment was huge in the 80's.
@extskilled4513 жыл бұрын
bought this as my first car the 88 one. i love it so far it’s kinda older in design but it seems reliable.
@ORPKryzys5 жыл бұрын
Give it some decent torque and I'd drive a simple car like that all day everyday. Thanks MW!
@qmto5 жыл бұрын
5:53 VHS tape trying to kill itself.
@jonathancisneros71503 жыл бұрын
I wish I’d own one of these and swap an sr20 turbo. Perfect project car
@djkenny12024 жыл бұрын
Finally great seats! Now let’s make a car worthy of them! Comes the best gen yet, the SE-R in 1990. Wish they still made good cars like that.
@klnikfar5 жыл бұрын
I LOVED the full body red ones!
@kencolle15 жыл бұрын
This was my first new car. 87 sentra sport coupe.
@Incomudro19635 жыл бұрын
My second used car, but my first functional car. Drove it for a couple of years.
@jayman70375 жыл бұрын
Nissan's from this era had impeccable reliability and longevity.
@tinkynine33515 жыл бұрын
They were pretty solid,maybe not as refined as Toyota but generally very solid.
@jayman70375 жыл бұрын
@@tinkynine3351 yes. It took Nissan a long time to introduce 16 v engines. And Those engines were superb..
@klnikfar5 жыл бұрын
Totally!
@johnnymason2460 Жыл бұрын
This version of the Sentra is very rare. I prefer this Sentra SE over the basic Sentra. It's hard to find, though.
@DougsCars5 жыл бұрын
Amazing that cars were once acceptable with 70 hp.
@vector69775 жыл бұрын
Or skinny 12 and 13" diameter wheels. Now, a Prius comes with 18"s!
@froesesp5 жыл бұрын
Not acceptable, the golf's and gti's were much faster, even the base golf with 85hp.
@dcanmore5 жыл бұрын
for a 1.6 litre that 70hp was a crap output even back then. In Europe a 1987 Ford Escort 1.6 XR3i had 115hp; Nissan Sunny (Sentra) GTi 1.6 cranked out 108hp.
@DougsCars5 жыл бұрын
vector6977 Probably can’t even find them anymore!
@DougsCars5 жыл бұрын
Steven Froese That’s still crazy to me, and I remember these Sentras as a kid.
@Pawglovr215 жыл бұрын
Aaah sweet memories. I had one in my high school days, I thought it was fast until a brand new 96 Buick Riviera blew my doors off 😔
@dkt1976dt4 жыл бұрын
Since the 1st Nissan Sentra came to American coasts back in 1983, the Sentra name still soldiers on 36 years later, I grew up with the first Nissan Sentras, I loved my 1984 Nissan Sentra 4 door in Deluxe trim, the body rotted away and it still kept running. I miss those old Datsuns and Nissans, they were simple to maintain and work on.
@FerrariCarr5 жыл бұрын
I’ve never seen this car before! I quite like it; I probably would’ve bought one back then. Sentras sure have come a long way....
@lawrencehodge62735 жыл бұрын
I've never actually seen a Sentra 3 door. It looks pretty sporty.
@klnikfar5 жыл бұрын
They were awesome! The style was amazing for a Sentra.
@milfordcivic67555 жыл бұрын
When Nissan made it a "driver's" car. Back when they didn't focus on how well your phone interacted with your car.....or nanny gadgets so you can play with your phone instead of driving.
@marcuskramer35144 жыл бұрын
Had one of these. The only problem with it was the rack and pinion that needed replacement on multiple occasions. But I loved it.
@mustafanaji65912 жыл бұрын
GOOD REVIEW & GREAT SENTRA.
@kippaseo80275 жыл бұрын
I remember they're being quite a few of these on the road back in the day. Even though I was a little little kid when my sister bought a 1988 pulsar NX I remember this costing exactly the same and I remember the salesman saying they were virtually identical mechanically. The Pulsar NX was so much cooler then this thing and even as a seven-year-old I wondered why anyone would buy this when the pulsar had T-tops and pop-up headlights? LOL plus the tail lights on the Pulsar NX we're awesome is fuck!
@MrGchiasson14 күн бұрын
I owned one w/ manual transmission. Never gave me a problem. Lots of plastic...but it was fun to drive.
@alexyoungberg52325 жыл бұрын
*Lets see more gm 3.8 series 2 and 3 please! You guys have to have a million of them. Buicks, Pontiacs, Olds. We want to see them all because we are still driving them!*
@skylinefever5 жыл бұрын
If the 3.8 didn't have such stupid intake gaskets, it would have been perfect.
@punkmonkey1234 жыл бұрын
I have one of these with less than 100k miles. One of the best cars I've owned. Picked it up two years ago for $1200
@ruebzrandomreactionz34883 жыл бұрын
Wonder if I’m the only one who loves those glitches in the video where the picture and sound will fade in and out for just a few seconds. It’s like the slight popping noise of an old record player.
@grunkohlaktionar74745 жыл бұрын
Mitsubishi Diamante please!
@SG-sz5vh5 жыл бұрын
I miss cars with lots of glass and airy cabins, unlike today’s gun slit tank-like cabins
@JimmySawFinger5 жыл бұрын
video tape damage took me back to many years
@khakuda5 жыл бұрын
Had an 85, then a 90 and finally a 94 Maxima which just kicked the bucket two years ago. Gone are the days when Nissan built some of the worlds best cars.
@skylinefever5 жыл бұрын
The 1990s Maximas were some of the toughest cars of all time. Although I would rate Volvo bricks and Crown Vics higher, the Maxima came close in the 1990s.
@jackd19844 жыл бұрын
i had a 90 sentra hatchback , bought it as my first car from my brother who was his first car. got in a car accident and it was written off...been looking for this car ever since.
@antaeusx3 жыл бұрын
😳😆🤣🤣 That 0-60 and quarter mile run was abysmal. 😂😂
@xXxDurandalxXx5 жыл бұрын
I own one of these, its not fast but i love driving it, its fun to throw around! also mine's automatic, wish it was stick shift , itd probably be more fun haha
@JM-mn4ph2 жыл бұрын
I had an '88 Sport Coupe in 2001 as my first car. It was fun but underpowered. Much like the Z31 300zx I purchased a couple years later. My current daily driven MK4 Jetta 1.8t is a missile in comparison and has a large aftermarket support, which neither of those ever had.
@buddhull4 жыл бұрын
Gosh, that SE takes the oddity of the N12 wedge-shaped Pulsar and stretches it out into a better, more Accord, sleek. I have a 1991 SE-R and this is next in line in terms of Sentra bodies.
@ENDTIMEsVideoLibrary5 жыл бұрын
Okay, my best friend had one that was all black that his rich parents bought for him. We used to get drunk and go to the Hollywood clubs and I was usually the "Designated Drunk Driver" because he had 2 DUIs and we were barely 20 years old. 4th of July a couple years later we were hit by a Drunk Driver that was even drunker than we were! Fortunately that was the days where you would just get a slap on the wrist if you had no priors, but when we went to look at the car at the wrecking yard I knew that God really existed. That was because it was apparent that the only other thing that saved me from death and or injury was the heavy construction of the drivers door, which was now shaped like a banana, and the large side seat cushioning. I used to love that car!! His parents bought him a 300ZX to replace it.. 80s Object Lesson: "Always reward bad behavior with BETTER STUFF"!! We can laugh about it now.. fortunately..
@ReadyRock2155 жыл бұрын
Never seen one on the road
@scdevon3 жыл бұрын
Neither did the showroom see any buyers on the floor. It's amazing this company even survived this long. Honda and Toyota had nothing to worry about back then.
@bandwagon2405 жыл бұрын
I don't think I've seen one of these in the wild for at least 15 years.
@ChapmanFilms5 жыл бұрын
bandwagon240 I was thinking the same thing
@Lrules3645 жыл бұрын
Cash for clunkers took a lot of cars out of the game man.
@ElectoneGuy5 жыл бұрын
Speaking of the CRX, when are you guys going to post the vintage review of it?
@ORPKryzys5 жыл бұрын
I think they did. Both generations.
@skylinefever5 жыл бұрын
The Nissan Sentra and Toyota Corolla were probably better than the Honda Civic of the time. Back in 1987, My dad owned a Hyundai Excel. It had even less power than this Nissan did. He had to accelerate at full throttle all the time in order not to get crushed by oncoming traffic.
@sleepyhollow7835 жыл бұрын
I recall those Excels. Oddly named given their speed ability. My family test drove one with an automatic transmission & had 5 passengers in it. I thought of just getting out & walking. Never experienced such low power!
@HamsterWheelGaming4 жыл бұрын
>Sports coupe >0-60 time of 15.5 seconds Oh the 80's...
@scdevon3 жыл бұрын
80s nothing. A stick shift 1987 Honda would have eaten this thing's doors off in 1987. The Nissan would be in the rear view mirror 1/2 way through 1st gear-on. LOL
@chardelraconner7324 Жыл бұрын
that's a nice colour too
@JackBandicootsBunker5 жыл бұрын
Looks like a larger-sized Pulsar NX
@SpencerTaylorOnline5 жыл бұрын
20 second quarter mile times! And some want to bring the 80s back!
@chriscornelius25184 жыл бұрын
Ha ha ha. I've always thought the 80s cars, especially the domestics were viewed as junk. I guess time makes us forget.
@SpencerTaylorOnline4 жыл бұрын
@@chriscornelius2518 no, they sucked, but so did all of the other cars at the time!
@KRN7625 жыл бұрын
By 1987, no one was using wooden tennis racquets.
@aayonce45 жыл бұрын
Much better sentra than the one today. The current Sentra is a joke unless SR but even still
@Mrwheresmyhouse2 жыл бұрын
Back in that in between time where you could get dual overhead cams and a carburetor.
@BigEightiesNewWave5 жыл бұрын
my 77 B210 hatch 5-speed manual was a great car.
@mharkieb.73065 жыл бұрын
Classic...
@gmc54585 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see a review of this Nissan with the 1.8 ca18de engine...
@theevilwitchtheband3 жыл бұрын
I'm restoring one of these cars (it's called hikari down here in México)... and even though it's the same engine block, it's rated 88 hp, it has double barrel carb, and certainly less stringent emmisions controls. For sure it's not that slow as the one reviewed.
@mrdaykurutakuchannel3 жыл бұрын
I wish it had the CA16 engine like we got in Indonesian market Sentra coupes of the same age!
@schlomoubermann3 жыл бұрын
5:05 - notice how turning signal expands the bumper :-o
@redneon065 жыл бұрын
Cool design! I know where one is in silver!
@erikhertzer84345 жыл бұрын
The dreaded “it has no voltmeter” review by John...
@sleepless3y3s5 жыл бұрын
There is never one video which he will not miss the words Voltmeter and Oil pressure. He is very obsessed.
@scdevon3 жыл бұрын
@@sleepless3y3s As if you needed that on a high quality econobox like this. You could go months at a time without even lifting the hood on this reliable little Japanese beastie.
@schlagboy5 жыл бұрын
I need sleep. I just laughed for 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
@necrodh5 жыл бұрын
In México we used to have the turbo versión but stills slow, a SE-R 2.0 was super faster.
@SolamenteVees5 жыл бұрын
That swivel at 0:17 tho. One-take John Davis.
@wiibaron5 жыл бұрын
Same price as a 87 Dodge Shadow ES. Twice the power, and 1/2 the 0-60 time. Mine lasted til 2003.
@423tech4 жыл бұрын
I wonder where this was filmed. The slalom and speed runs look like they're on a newly constructed state highway
@mottmatt78445 жыл бұрын
I once saw a pristine one and was so tempted to leave my number on its window. Thank god it was only an auto.
@raulruiz69513 жыл бұрын
My first car at 18!
@Ithinkiwill663 жыл бұрын
Gotta love those 80's retro "wannabe" like hatchback sport coupes...."SPORT" 😉😉 But, damn they look great still, even today!