Let me inject a little recall folks.

It seems to me that back when I was a younger man, and muscle cars were all over, the Z car was known as a DATSUN FAIRLADY 240Z. No one wishing to pull up next to a muscle car at the red-light wanted to be in a Datsun Fairlady 240Z.

Best I can figure Datsun later changed its name to NISSAN for marketing reasons. If a Datsun Z car owner is giving you a rough time, start talking about the early years. You know back when the Z was made by an off the wall company by the name of Datsun. Never let NISSAN owners forget where his/her car came from. Remind them of the Datsun. It was and still is a Datsun from Japan.

I can recall a joke about Datsun, it may be the reason Datsun did the name change, and it goes something like this:

The car designers in Japan had come up with a great idea for a car. Now all they needed was a name for the company to start production. So the designer picks up the phone and calls his local PR people and tells them he needs a name for the new car company by the next morning. The PR guy on the other end of the phones blurts out "That Soon!!?" and the designer says that is a great name. So there you have it folks, the birth of Datsun. Hooah