370z or Fairlady Z

vividracing · 08-30-2010, 09:16 PM

Cliff notes while googling...

While Mr. Katsuji Kawamata, the President of Nissan Motors of Japan Ltd., was visiting the United States in 1958 he attended a performance, on-Broadway, of the hit musical "My Fair Lady".

A couple of years later (1960), when Nissan was about to introduce its new Sports Car Line, Mr. Kawamata gave it the official name of "Fairlady". He had been so impressed with the beauty of the music and the leading lady in that Broadway Musical, that he thought everyone would relate the name of Nissans new sports car "the Fairlady" to the beauty of the music and the leading lady in the play. Indeed, that is what happened in Japan, the name made perfect sense there and was readily accepted in that market.

blastman5 · 08-31-2010, 12:14 AM

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Originally Posted by vividracing

Cliff notes while googling...

While Mr. Katsuji Kawamata, the President of Nissan Motors of Japan Ltd., was visiting the United States in 1958 he attended a performance, on-Broadway, of the hit musical "My Fair Lady".

A couple of years later (1960), when Nissan was about to introduce its new Sports Car Line, Mr. Kawamata gave it the official name of "Fairlady". He had been so impressed with the beauty of the music and the leading lady in that Broadway Musical, that he thought everyone would relate the name of Nissans new sports car "the Fairlady" to the beauty of the music and the leading lady in the play. Indeed, that is what happened in Japan, the name made perfect sense there and was readily accepted in that market.

now i know and knowing is half the battle...haha....gi joe quote...but yea that is cool i didnt know that and im gonna put my fairlady z badge on...i just always knew it as the jdm version but i didnt know why so that is cool...thanks

FL 4Motion · 08-31-2010, 01:35 AM

somewhere on some Japanese Z forum, there's probably a debate raging as to whether to put the USDM 370z emblem on their fairlady Z.

08-30-2010, 09:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
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08-31-2010, 01:35 AM	#3 (permalink)
FL 4Motion A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: FL Posts: 4,776 Drives: Baby Shark Rep Power: 701617	somewhere on some Japanese Z forum, there's probably a debate raging as to whether to put the USDM 370z emblem on their fairlady Z.