First came the $100,000 Toyota Supras, then the high-priced Skyline GTR imports, and now the Datsun Z cars ... having been used as a model for a Franklin Mint die-cast model car.

Nissan has produced quite a few popular car models over the years, but few can match the sheer icon status of the manufacturer's Datsun 240Z. Also known as the Nissan S30 or the Nissan Fairlady Z ...

It's possible that not all builders of scale model cars appreciate Soviet knockoffs of prewar German cars as we do, but you won't find many that don't like the Datsun 240Z. Better still ...

Let's dig into their differences. Nissan (Datsun at the time) first started production of the 240Z in October 1969 for the 1970 model year. Allegedly designed as an answer to the Toyota 2000GT ...

From the June 1970 issue of Car and Driver. The difference between the Datsun 240Z and your everyday three-and-a-half thousand dollar sports car is that about twice as much thinking went into the ...

The second model which joined the collection was a 1973 Datsun 240Z painted in Olive Green. It is a numbers-matching car and was picked up the day after the owner’s wife gave birth. It is being ...

The world of sports cars was very different in 1969, when the first Datsun 240Z made ... between the debut of the 240Z and the arrival of the second-generation model, it was mostly much pricier ...

The model really upped the game when it hit the ... utilitarian pickups. This 1972 Datsun 240Z was sold for $42,350 through RM Sotheby’s in 2021. RM Sotheby’s With its SOHC, 2.4-liter inline ...

The decades-long Z Car legend starts with the original Datsun 240Z, which entered production in October 1969 as a 1970 model year vehicle. Produced as something of a response to Toyota's 2000 GT ...