Classic Car & Driver review of the 89 240sx

[SX APPEAL]

Car & Driver posted this on their FB page a few days ago, I'm sure it probably been posted on here too at some point, but I didn't find it by searching so here you go... Let the nostalgia begin!

[PapaSmurf2k3]

Heh, back when 2798 lbs was considered heavy. WOW.

Thanks for sharing!

[Bubba1]

Heh, back when 2798 lbs was considered heavy. WOW.

Thanks for sharing!

Brought some good memories for me, as I bought a new '89 240sx with both the sport and luxury option groups not long after that article. The lack of ABS did not bother me at all, as you simply had to pay a little more attention when braking). though the speed limiter was annoying if you bounced off it. But as much as everyone joked about the modest horsepower, back in 1989, that was actually about mid-pack for it's competition.

[Jesda]

What Car and Driver said about Nissan in the early 90s is similar to what journalists are saying now about Mazda.

Every so often we get a car around here that makes us smile a lot. We smile a little when a car looks pretty good and drives pretty good and doesn't cost too much. We smile more whenever a car is fast; fast cars have a way of making us forget about price. But we save our big smiles—the no-ivories-barred kind—for cars that are just plain right. Cars that make us say, "Yep. These guys know."

Nissan was on a roll.

[numbnuts240]

Yet from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties, Nissan squandered its well-deserved dynamic reputation. Its sporty models grew glitzy, and its lesser models became mundane. Meanwhile, Honda blitzed new trails in excellence, Mazda licked the edges of the performance envelope, and Toyota hung on as Japan's biggest car company.