Nissan Rasheen

The Nissan Rasheen is a compact crossover SUV with four-wheel drive that Nissan produced from November 1994 to August 2000, a five-seater with a rugged, quirky and angular five-door body. A prototype of the same name was shown at the October 1993 Tokyo Motor Show, and the design was often compared with Eastern European cars, particularly the Wartburg 353. It was the fifth and last of Nissan's Pike car designs, after the Be-1, Pao, Figaro and S-Cargo, and as with the Be-1 and Figaro its production was carried out by the contract manufacturer Takada Kogyo. It was sold only through the Japanese dealership network Nissan Red Stage. The Rasheen shared its platform with the Nissan Sunny (B14), with chassis code RB14, and used Pulsar (N14) four-wheel-drive components. It had three inline-four gasoline engines: a 1.5 litre GA15DE, a 1.8 litre SR18DE added in 1997 and a 2.0 litre SR20DE in the Forza of 1998. Production halted under the Nissan Revival Plan at 72,793 units.