The Nissan Skyline is a 4-door sedan (car) / sedan / 5-door van / delivery van / 2-door coupe / 2-door convertible from Nissan, built from 1957, at the height of the post-war boom. Under the bonnet: 1.5 . Takuya Himura / Giovanni Michelotti (Skyline Sport BLRA-3) drew it.
The background
The Nissan Skyline (Japanese: 日産・スカイライン, Hepburn: Nissan Sukairain) is a brand of automobile originally produced by the Prince Motor Company starting in 1957, and then by Nissan after the two companies merged in 1966. After the merger, the Skyline and its larger counterpart, the Nissan Gloria, were sold in Japan at dealership sales channels called Nissan Prince Shop. The Skyline was largely designed and engineered by Shinichiro Sakurai from inception, and he remained a chief influence of the car until his death in 2011. Skylines are available primarily in either coupé or sedan body styles, plus station wagon, crossover, convertible and pickup/sedan delivery body styles.
The later models are most commonly known by their trademark round brake and tail lights. The majority of Skyline models are rear-wheel drive, with part-time all-wheel drive being available since the debut of the eighth-generation Skyline (R32). While not distributed in the United States until its importation as the Infiniti G-series in the early 2000s (the first generation Prince Skyline was imported, but sold poorly), the Skyline's prominence (particularly for the GT-R variant) in video games, movies and magazines (including The Fast and the Furious, Initial D, Shakotan Boogie, Tokyo Xtreme Racer, Wangan Midnight, Need for Speed, Forza, Driving Emotion Type-S, Test Drive, Gran Turismo and Real Racing 3) resulted in many such cars being brought in as grey import vehicles there, and makes up a large amount of second-hand Japanese car imports to Europe and North America. Starting with the third-generation Skyl
The engineering
Power comes from 1.5 other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1265-1340 kg. It shifts through a 3-speed manual transmission / manual / 4-speed manual. The wheelbase is 2535 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Prince Sedan; assembly was at Mitaka, Japan. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Fiat 500, the Mini Mini, the Dodge Challenger — show what else the money bought that year. Its Nissan stablemates include the Nissan N6 and the Nissan N7.
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Nissan Skyline — 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.