Monday, July 4, 2016
1986 Nissan Stanza Wagon
People love to pick on junky, cheap whips like the Yugo. But if ever there was a mainstream POS wagon, it's the Stanza Wagon. Neat in concept and okay to drive, but so poorly manufactured that practically none remain. If you can find one in primo condition for sale, please post a link! Sliding doors rule. I wish they'd build them into more cars, including the front doors too. And make them remote controlled like the new Tesla, please. Maybe that's overboard in terms of tech junk, but golly they're convenient and luxurious.
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So, was rust the weak point? As I remember, Nissans were fairly solid mechanically in that period.
ReplyDeleteBingo on both counts.
DeleteIt's worth noting that this vehicle lived on overseas as three generations of the Nissan Prairie until 2004.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91Tv5ZSC3B8
Dangit; another neath little wagon that we couldn't buy.
Clarification; we DID get the second gen, wearing Axxess badges. If anything, it was even worse than the Stanza Wagon, with far less mechanical reliability combined with the dreaded rust worm vulnerability. It made it only ONE year in the USofA!
ReplyDeleteBut we didn't get the third gen, which featured the legendary SR20DET and AWD. Its successor, the Lafesta, expanded into minivan territory.