Start with what the Nissan 180SX is: a 3-door fastback with 1.8 , built from 1989 to 1998, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Nissan 180SX is a fastback automobile that Nissan Motors produced between 1988 and 1998. It is based on the S13 chassis from the Nissan S platform with the variants receiving an R designation (e.g. RS13 and RPS13). It was sold exclusively in Japan. It was re-badged outside of Japan as the 200SX and as the 240SX in the US market.
The hardware
The engine is 1.8 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1170-1270 kg. Drive goes through a 5-speed manual / 4-speed automatic. The layout matters: a front engine drives the rear wheels, the classic proportion — long bonnet, cabin set back — that most people picture when they picture a sports saloon or a grand tourer. The wheelbase is 2475 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Nissan line-up the Nissan 180SX has a clear place: it replaced the Nissan Gazelle S12; it handed the line to the Nissan Silvia S15. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Lexus LS, the Mazda MX-5, the Subaru Legacy. Its Nissan stablemates include the Nissan N6 and the Nissan N7.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Nissan 180SX — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.