Nissan Pintara

The Nissan Pintara was a compact family car that Nissan Motor Australia built from 1986 to 1992 at its Clayton plant in Melbourne, Victoria. The first generation, the R31, was in effect a four-cylinder version of the Nissan Skyline, sold as a sedan or station wagon with a 2.0-litre CA20E engine and aimed at the Mitsubishi Magna. Nissan chose that route because the new Bluebird had gone to front-wheel drive and it feared Australian buyers would reject it. The second generation, the U12 of 1989, was a locally produced front-wheel-drive Bluebird, also sold as a five-door Superhatch, and it was exported to New Zealand and Japan. Under the Button car plan Ford Australia sold a rebadged version as the Ford Corsair. Production ended in mid-1992 when Nissan stopped building cars in Australia.