Nissan · Leopard
Nissan Leopard 1st generation (F30)
- Years
- 1980–1986
- Chassis
- F30
- Drivetrain
- FR
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Story
It greatly widened the choices for people buying a specialty car. A six-light window was the 4-door's main feature, and its slant nose had the smallest lamp angle of any Japanese car of the time.
Chassis
Front
Strut
- Curb weight
- 1,300kg
Production plants
Yokosuka, Kanagawa
US import eligibility
- Earliest cars
- Eligible since September 200525 years after sales began in September 1980
- Last cars
- Eligible since 201125 years after sales ended in 1986 (month not recorded)
Eligibility depends on each car's month of manufacture on its build plate, not on the sale dates shown here (NHTSA).
Engineers
Hometown: Kanagawa Prefecture
Head of development (chief engineer) of the Skyline. He led its development without a break from partway through the second generation until near the end of the seventh generation's development, and was called "Mr. Skyline".
Hometown: Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture
Chief engineer of the eighth-generation Skyline (R32). Shinichiro Sakurai's foremost disciple, he took over as chief engineer near the end of the seventh generation's development, and then led the eighth generation from the early stages of its development.