1985 Nissan EXA Cabrio Goes for a Drive
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- The Nissan Pulsar (Cherry) EXA Convertible is one of the rarest and most '80s cars of the 1980s
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'this makes Volvo's look curvy' - Excellent!
Somewhat similar to the 480ES though.
Matt, see if you get your hands on one of these for comparison. There is one in Kent or at least close by maybe Sussex.. No not the Volvo but this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Capri_(Australia)
When I was a kid and arrived in Johannesburg airport and there was a Nissan EXA in black, with the pop up lights and I said to my father “look dad, it’s KITT”. Of course it wasn’t.
Never knew these existed and that's coming from a Nissan Enthusiast, very lucky owner, a great slice of the 80's right there. Great review as always
AS they were Japan only they are not well known at all
You should see the second gen
Switch blank is for (deleted) heated rear window
The sedan also had a rear window wiper.
Was getting worried that I wouldn't get my Friday dose of furiousdriving!
I absolutely love those wheels.
Me to!
Only saw these as coupes, never knew of this version.
My first car was a 85 coupe. First time seeing a cabrio model. 😯👍
Great that you can find so many rarities like this
Pop up headlights, so 80s, love it.
Another rare beast Matty only 100 made pop up headlights very 80's
Never knew this car even existed. Didn't even know the "normal" coupe existed.
The blanking plate in the dash must be where the rear screen heating switch is on hardtop models.
What a lovely little car. I am lucky enough to have a standard N12 Pulsar hatch down in Australia, identical mechanically & a real good thing to drive for the class of car it is from that era. A good friend of mine has the KN12 Exa coupe with the E15ET - now that is a rapid motor! Surprises even a lot of modern cars.
Never heard of these, what an absolute gem
It's so cool 😎 ,I've never seen one ,or even knew they existed 👍
This car is amazing and the trispokes absolutely set it off immensely
"Like driving a modern car really"
*hand-winds up the window
But a beautiful car, never even knew it existed!
I prefer wind up windows, they are much reliable and longer lasting, electric motors are very expensive to repair/rebuild!
I dont mind them, I just have an aversion to cars with electric front/manual rear windows for some reason. Either all windows should be electric or none of them!
Vauxhall are the main culprits
Fabulous. So rare I didn't even know it existed. Great one Matt
Wow such a mad car - really puts you in mind of an AE86. Love the 3 spoke alloys and the oh-so-80s pop up headlights! Love how you manage to find some of the rarest cars that most of us never knew existed! Brilliant video as always Matt!
Typical Period Nissan interior!
ASC did a lot of conversions, first, sunroofs, then convertibles, for US vehicles.
I think the next Pulsar NX got a squareback hatch; you could have a coupé like hatch or a squareback that makes it look like an estate! An AM radio!
Haven't seen a Pulsar NX in decades!
Excellent review!
Gorgeous machine! You're testing some real niche stuff, Matt!, love it.
Congratulations on 50K subscribers..
Never ever seen one, and never heard of it! Thanks for sharing it with us, great review.
Look like a Nissan Sunny mated with a mk1 MR2. Love it 👍
Reminds me of my Ford Capri SA, a much maligned roadster designed by Ford of Australia. Very few left on the road now...
Wow! You do come acros dome incredible cars. Very nice.
Good review furious. I’ve never heard of that car and I thoroughly enjoyed learning about it thank you very much. Pete love 🇬🇧
Nice find!
Nice time capsule 👌
My English master, in the ‘60s ,would have whacked you over the head for qualifying unique ! As he hit you he shouted something is unique or not . It cannot be rather unique or very unique . I still have the mental and physical scars . Thank you for reminding me ! Good video, as usual !
Awesome v log never knew these existed loving the 80s styling 👍.. Being rare are spares easy to come by 🤔
That 0-60 spec is undoubtedly in KPH. I had a Sentra with that engine and 0-60 was around 15 seconds. 😊
For 0-60 kph it is too slow, it really could be mph, if it uses the veeery "best case scenario" time. There are a lot of fanciful ways to test, or even calculate 0-60 times to get the results you want. As was popular back in the day.
Sidenote: Did you know that the stated "dry weight" of a japanese motorcycle is without gas... coolant.. fork oil.. and even battery? Yes, it is true. Lies, statistics and all that.
@@GoldenCroc Perhaps if it was dropped off of a building it would hit 60 in under 9 seconds. The spec actually matches well with 0-50mph which was commonly stated for cars with an unimpressive 0-60 time.
Awesome car! My uncle had a Exa Turbo coupé when I was a kid.
Beautiful beautiful
My Cherry has the E15ET as standard .
They really should have fitted the e15et in these.
Concur
Worked for Nissan for 18 years. Never heard of one of these before this one.
Interior reminds me of a Stanza !!!!
85bhp
0 to 60mph in less than 9 seconds,regardless of a lowish weight,if true is a great achievement 👍
Brilliant. Didn't know about this one.
Unrelated to this video, but congratulations on hitting 50k subs!
Love it!
Matt is a lucky man to drive that lovely car and tell us all about it!
The steering wheel is so simple and beautiful
I'd heard that these existed but never actually seen one. So odd! I had an 85 Pulsar NX and that was easily one of the coolest cars I've ever owned. And I owned two 280Zs. It's a shame cars like the NX/EXA don't get built anymore. I'd buy a new one in a heartbeat. A fwd go-kart that looks cool and is excellent on petrol. Ugh. Why do we not have a modern version of these today?
It was originally Red, but has been repainted white,
Think white suits it especially with those wheels.
sad face, should be red again and the 3 spokes do it harm
I think if the paint was left red it may be a bit too much red everywhere! Does look nice in white. Great review! What a quirky little car lol
Where do you find these cars !! What an amazing example Matt of a car I’d never heard of , great review 👍🏻.
Interesting mix of carburation gubbins.
Steering wheel is truly delicious.
Very interesting video of a very rare car. The time frame for the Japanese tax law is 5 years. That is why there is a solid trade in used parts from Japan. When you think about it, the whole idea of cars being scrapped as routine after only 5 years of service is downright terrible for the environment! Great to see this rare beast so well cared for.
“Mars bar aperture”
First rate, Matt. :)
Hi Matt,this is one I ain’t seen before,it looks a convertible Prelude from the front.not many of these then.very rare to see.
A nice 80s Japanese dashboard too. Nicely different from your bog standard grey or black
Very cool.
Gotta love how you don't edit out your outtakes!
You seemed to like the gearknob or the gearchange Matt or do you normally keep your hand on the stick if changing down through two or more gears. Also, I must say that I like the red interior, it goes well with the white paint.
Fab alloy design. Sort of looks like a Celica crossed with a Fox body Mustang.
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What a cool one shame they dont make them like this
Hi Matt, another very interesting car video. How is Quentin coming along ?
I want one. -- Oops you forgot to show how the back seat folds down to make a larger boot area, but good review all the same.
I know someone who had one in white in Aus, not a convertable but as far as I know it was always white.
i own one of this, was my second car, not a convertible though.......in all reality, i miss it so much, fun little rocket.........can't find them anymore here in Australia :(
Exa turbo's were really popular in South Africa.
Wonder if Wayne at Stone Cold Classics gets this. Great review
Its not for sale, so I I doubt he'll be seeing it soon
I'm guessing that Nissan were planning to enter the lucrative market for convertibles that was reopening in North America in the eighties, and for some motive abandoned this model in the early production phase.
It would be explained by a remarkably harsh road test that Car and Driver published in 1983-84, where they acquired the Turbo model, and discovered that the turbo lag and tall gearing made acceleration slower than the carburettor model. Car and Driver suggested that the acceleration was so slow as to be hazardous in traffic.
One of those blank plates is probably for, the rear window defroster the lines if it had the roof
Coupé- has the same doors as the hatchback to save costs
Convertible- special run of only 100 to use up all the money saved
ACS? Should that not be ASC (American Sunroof) or am I missing something? BTW I've seen photos of them in red and it really isn't a nice shade.
no just fluffed the line, no biggy
" Rare does not necessarily mean valuable or desirable " truer words......
Where would go to replace any of that door glass?
As memory serves, this period of Nissan special vehicles also included an, as memory serves lift back, coupe that could convert into a pickup by removing and changing some of the plastic panels. It sounds a bit of a crazy idea, but the actual vehicle really looked quite neat, especially when you consider it was, if I remember correctly, a Japanese market vehicle only from a period when those vehicles could have decidedly challenging styling...
That steering wheel is exactly the same one as was used on the Nissan Cherry Turbo in the UK, though for that model it didn't have the leather rim, just a soft-feel plastic item, so the leather steering wheel rim and horn push for these cars was probably another item unique to this car as a leather steering wheel rim was not something commonly seen on Japanese vehicles until well into the 1990s due to Japanese attitudes to things being rather different to ours and leather being viewed as not being luxurious as it is here but just rather unpleasant in the Japanese summer heat with very plush velour being very much the interior trim of choice in the really posh Japanese market vehicles like the Toyota Century...
From what I understand it was actually cheaper for companies to have their convertibles done by a different company. Probably why Ford had all the Mustang convertibles from that era done that way.
When one thinks about it prior to the Lotus Elan inspired Mazda MX5. Nissan was actually the best candidate for reviving the small British influenced RWD sportscar and they were actually a company with some history ties to Austin/BMC too (that produced the Midget/Sprite) with even a number of Nissan's engines (including the E in the EXA) sharing some characteristics with the BMC A-Series engine. A shame really the EXA was not front engined RWD, the closest Nissan thought of a small RWD sportscar after the 1960s was the mid-engined 1975 Nissan AD-1 concept based on the F10 Cherry and powered by a Nissan A14 engine.
yes, they had very close ties with Austin at one point. Shame this didnt make full production
Specs wise, there's also the S13 cars from the late 80s (240sx in the States) and I believe there was a short run of convertibles. But most were the usual 2+2 coupes and hatches.
The general Silvia models would be too big to be considered a direct MX5 rival, that is not to say Nissan couldn't have developed a shortened S-platform (a version of which allegedly underpinned the RWD Sunnys up to the early-80s with the B310) to spawn a small MX5-rivalling Nissan A/E/CA/SR-powered 2-seater sportscar below the Silvia.
It would be similar to how the first two 1989-2005 MX5 models were said to have been derived from the 1978-1992 1st/2nd gen RX7. One left-field example in terms of size and concept (if not execution) would have to be the CA18ET powered 1984-1995 Reliant Scimitar SS1/Scimitar SST/Scimitar Sabre.
Never heard of these. They remind me of those Fiat X19 things you used to see occasionally
great video as usual, thanks matt! the 0-60 time of 8.8secs was the 115bhp turbo version.....this one only had 85bhp, in fact my dad bought a new nissan sunny 1.5 SGL in 1984 with the same engine :-) www.nissan-global.com/EN/HERITAGE/Pulsar_EXA_Convertible.html
Is the ash tray full of Valium?
I imagine the other blank plate is for a sunroof or moonroof if it the metal roof on
Is that car white from the factory, or red I can see it is white but under the bonnet it is red
How do I get a rover mug/cup I can't for the life of me find one
My first car was a Nissan cherry 🍒 😀
Very interesting and unusual. Did you mean ASC rather than ACS?
yes ASC
datsun 280zx levels of red interior!
If rear light bars can come back so can pop-up lights...brace urself peoples.
Rare = Horrific insurance
What a weird n whacky thing. Thanks for showing.
レストアしてるんですか？
随分、綺麗！
嬉しいです、まだ外国で走ってるなんて！
でも、クラッチ重くありませんか？
Nice ! .... But I would have to paint the underbonnet and boot white otherwise my OCD would be off the scale !!
Me too.
Iam surprised a full respray didn't run the the complete bonnet and boot.
ACS or ASC... though I checked the ASC wiki and the Pulsar isn’t listed. 🤨
ASC. It was definitely built by them, I found it in my research and the owner confirmed it
ASC used to go by the name American Sunroof Corporation.
Those wheels are fantastic. Satisfyingly '80s
9:22 beep! beep!
The convertible is a bit ho-hum compared to the wagon version..it's so rare I've never even seen one....you could take its roof of and put it over your bar-b-que on a wet day ..and put back the coupe roof which the dog was using as his kennel.
The dash is , most of it, similar to the Arna
Excellent tea shelfage?
Pretty decent
Lots of exa's in 'straya, nearly all in wreckers yards. They look nearly as bad as this one ;)
I had a 1986 exa in australia and they dont handle like this thing there sharp and flat handle like go cart so something is very wrong with that car even being a chop top
I completely agree with you, there is something seriously wrong with this car, seems it has no shock absorbers or they are completely shot. I had a 1984 Turbo version and although it was stiffer than the non turbo models the standard models were not this wobbly and softly sprung.
For Heaven's sake FD! Something is unique or it isn't. One of a kind cannot be almost or quite .... can it? Okay, The Pedants' Revolt is over.
This is very bad news. The R8 has lost It's Tea Shelf crown. Shocking.
A pedant writes... It's not a T-bar, it's a rollover bar - it there was a bar between it and the windscreen it would be a T-bar. Also, doors are frameless, not pillarless....
What are those blue pills in the ash tray haha.
I have the only one in America... =)
Quintens better brother 🤓😉👍 is that hubnuts cat 🐈 🤓 Japanese are as good as the Germans 👍 nice car
His rarer bother, or cousin being Nissan rather than Honda. Better? hmm
Nissan Cherry convertible 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I think it’s ASC not ACS, american specialty cars, excuse my nerdism
Matt, this thing has a lot of "not matching" colours like the plastic interior trim and the carpets. It's a kit car! And rare kit cars are still kit cars. This re-painted thing is horrid! But I will agree with you that it's better in white; but alas, it would be more better in a wood chipper. How many points out of ten did Mrs. Furious give it I wonder? What about her hair dresser? Surely Alfonso thought it a nippy little number. LOL