Nissan Figaro

It is hard to imagine as we stumble through this awful recession & see many global companies cancelling projects, paying off staff & closing factories that around twenty years ago one huge Japanese company gambled with its profits & produced a series of whacky looking vehicles in an attempt to 'reconnect with its younger market'. Nissan were a very conservative run company producing well made & reliable cars but aside from a handful of models they would hardly get the adrenaline pumping. Young Japanese buyers would rather buy Honda or Toyota as they were more focused on the 'youth' market & 'cool' to be seen in. THE PIKE ...  Read the complete review

When a girl looks, then points and says "I want THAT car!" You know you can relax and expect to follow her gaze to discover it to be a classic or a prestige or the Batmobile. On this occasion however, the gaze was fixed to a tiny picture on the back of a paperback book, and the pointing was emphatic. After some long and dedicated research, namely Googling 'noddy car', I could formally identify the vehicle as a 1990 Nissan Figaro. The search to find a car to actually buy developed rapidly after trawling various sites thrown out by Google and after several fruitless weekends going to view examples for sale whose ...  Read the complete review