Nissan NX

Among the 318 Nissan entries in the MotorJury library, the Nissan NX holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 1990. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Nissan NX properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Ford Ford Explorer, the Renault Renault Clio, the Honda Honda NSX — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Nissan NX reads like this: the record lists its engine as 1.5 L Nissan GA engine#GA15DS / GA15DS Inline-four engine / I4 (Japan) / 1.6 L Nissan GA engine#GA16DS / GA16DS/Nissan GA engine#GA16DE / DE I4 / 1.8 L Nissan SR eng; kerb weight is recorded at 940 -; drive goes through 4-speed automatic transmission / automatic / 5-speed manual transmission / manual; the layout is FF layout. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Nissan story

Within Nissan's own catalogue the Nissan NX sits alongside the Nissan N6, the Nissan N7, the Nissan NX8, the DeltaWing. The record names the Nissan EXA / Nissan Pulsar NX/EXA / Nissan Sunny#RZ-1 / Nissan Sunny RZ-1 / Nissan Sentra#B12 / Nissan Sentra Sport Coupe as its predecessor and the Nissan 200SX (North America) / Nissan Lucino (Japan) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Jerry Hirshberg. Assembly is recorded at Oppama Plant, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Nissan NX was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.