Re: How were Spridets sold originally?

[Frank Clarici <spritenut@comcast.net>]

Larry Daniels wrote:

> The way I heard it, when Nissan first started selling cars to the U.S. 
> market, they thought "Nissan" sounded too Japanese.  This was back when 
> "made in Japan" meant cheap junk.

So they figured Datsun sounded perfectly American?
Didn't Toyota start out as Toyopet?

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Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ