GTP Cool Wall: 1988 Nissan March Super Turbo (K10)

[Danoff]

Babe magnet... magnetically repelled. SU.

 

[MoLiEG]

Generic boxy car from the 80's. Meh.

 

[Pupik]

Twenty-five years ago, hitting 0-60 in 7.7 seconds in a hatch was a rare sight, and even less so if you had three cylinders. Those looks, like big frizzy hair and Def Leppard was also stupid-fresh-hot-tuna-styling back in the day.

The problem is that convincing anyone in this day and age that your econobox is "supercharged and turbocharged" is laughable, even though it is actually supercharged and turbocharged. It looks very dated, like a third-owner, last-ditch project car. It's probably also not named for Max Mosley, Alan Reeves, Graham Coaker, and Alan Rees, but for the month Julius Caesar was assassinated.

If you can grin and bear it, this was probably great fun to own. Based on the number of crap-ass Sentras from this era that are still running, I'd imagine that a 25-year-old box like this might have lost a little starch but good luck finding a shop with a wiring diagram for Frankenstein's Pet.

Novelty factor keeps it a cool over meh, but I'm admittedly a sucker for 1980's Nissan a e s t h e t i c s.

 

[Cano]

Uncool. Just looks like a cheap, uncheerful 80's hatch. Utterly fascinating in a way the over-engineered Japanese cars of the 80's and 90's tend to be, but not cool.

Slip said it better than I ever could.

 

[Epic B]

Homologation special, and it has a twincharged engine. It's not a Delta S4, but still Cool. Also, 100 km/h in 7.7 isn't bad.

 

[LMSCorvetteGT2]

cool