Rare Rides: The 1991 Nissan Figaro, Completing a Cutesy Collection

Today’s Rare Ride is the last entrant in a set of four cars introduced to the series back in November 2018. Tiny, retro, and a convertible, Nissan’s Figaro is by far the most popular of the four Pike cars. It’s also the one you can always find for sale in the United States.

Let’s take a look.

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Rare Rides: The 1987 Nissan Be-1 - a Little Retro Ride

Today’s Rare Ride is a Nissan Be-1 from 1987. As the first of four Pike cars, it set the stage for the upcoming Pike cars and commanded immediate attention from consumers. Come along as we check out this hatchback cheerful economy car.

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  • Lou_BC This is less harmful to one's re-election chances than harder driver's licence exams and making people re-test.
  • 28-Cars-Later Probably should investigate the buyers too, maybe a basic psych eval?
  • 28-Cars-Later "Despite nobody really digging the moniker,  Honda has told Autocar that it only plans on changing the name of the model in China (as part of a more comprehensive facelift) because that’s where they’re having the most trouble and anticipated the largest sales volumes.""Customers in China just can’t pronounce it,” explained the source."So the Chinese are class A customers but frack the rest of y'all we don't care what you think or can understand?
  • ToolGuy Is a Tesla store the same as a Tesla gallery? 16955 Chesterfield Airport Road is a gallery. 5711 S Lindbergh Blvd is a store. I wonder if anyone knows how far away those two locations are from each other. I wonder if Tesla's website shows vehicles in inventory. I wonder if there is a distance dropdown. So many questions.
  • 28-Cars-Later Zerohedge reported something similar in Belgium with the reasoning being the Chinese are flooding Europe with EVs in the early innings of a trade war. For Tesla any guess is a good one but my money is on BEV saturation has been reached.