Back to today's El Civicamino, we can see that it lacks a real tailgate and uses a steel bar to keep larger cargo items from ...

Back to today's El Civicamino, we can see that it lacks a real tailgate and uses a steel bar to keep larger cargo items from ...

In 1958, a small red Datsun pickup rolled into the Los Angeles Auto Show. It was the first compact truck ever sold in the U.S., and it would quietly rewrite expectations for what a truck could be.

1978 Subaru BRAT Vehicle Type: front-engine, 4-wheel-drive, 2+2-passenger pickup PRICE Base/As Tested: $4209 ENGINE flat-4, aluminum block and heads Displacement: 97 in 3, 1595 cm 3 Power: 65 hp ...

The driver of the pickup, a Dodge Ram, was also killed. The crash happened just before 7:15 p.m. on U.S. Highway 20 near Henry’s Lake, a popular spot for hiking, biking and fishing in eastern ...

But we’ve never seen anything like this before. Because, yes, what you’re looking at was once a Datsun Sunny pickup, a humble workhorse that would have barely mustered 60hp the best part of 50 ...

Remember, at this time the Datsun 510 was still two years away, and Toyota sales in the U.S. were dominated by the Land Cruiser. The idea of a performance-­oriented Japanese car seemed ludicrous.

By the late '50s, Datsun was ready to break into the North American market. The 210 sedan and 220 pickup, with which it shared a platform, debuted in Japan in 1957, and the following year both ...

This issue’s featured vehicle is a 1971 Datsun 240Z owned by Victor Talatala, of Pleasant Hill, who says he bought the car in March 2000 for $800. “The car was in bad shape,” he said.

That drift inspiration extends to the goodies under the hood. Woods fit a 2JZ twin-turbo I6 under the hood of the pickup. Given how small the truck is, the engine was a tight fit and jamming it in ...

It’s a survivor of the drift wars. Launched in 1989, the 240SX was Nissan’s little brother to the mighty 300ZX twin-turbo. A followup to the 200SX, which was initially sold as a Datsun, it can trace ...