Nissan · 1970–1986
Nissan Cherry
The Datsun Cherry (チェリー), known later as the Nissan Cherry, is a series of subcompact cars which formed Nissan's first front-wheel drive supermini model line. The Nissan Cherry featured the front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout. The Cherry line includes the E10 and F10. Nissan's direct successor was the Nissan Pulsar worldwide, which continued to use the Cherry name in certain markets. In Japan, the Cherry was exclusive to Nissan Cherry store locations. On the UK market, it debuted just before the company's surge in sales, which saw it sell just over 6,000 cars in 1971 and more than 30,000 the following year. Although its successor was launched in 1974, such was the original model's popularity on the UK market that it was not replaced there until 1976.
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UK vehicles on the road
29 licensed and 112 SORN (141 total) at 2025 Q4.
| Year (latest quarter) | Vehicles |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 168 |
| 2015 | 162 |
| 2016 | 157 |
| 2017 | 152 |
| 2018 | 143 |
| 2019 | 147 |
| 2020 | 142 |
| 2021 | 139 |
| 2022 | 138 |
| 2023 | 137 |
| 2024 | 138 |
| 2025 | 141 |
DfT/DVLA VEH0120 vehicle licensing statistics, source ↗, Open Government Licence v3.0. Small counts are rounded or suppressed at source.
Sources
- Wikidata / Wikipedia profiles — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/cars/Q1476157CC0 / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_CherryCC BY-SA 4.0 · Intro text © Wikipedia contributors; revision 1371776319 · retrieved 2026-10-03
- DfT/DVLA VEH0120 licensing statistics — https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/vehicle-licensing-statistics-data-tablesOpen Government Licence v3.0
- Car Model Index — https://models.autoculturesociety.com/Compiled record. Sources that do not permit reuse are not copied; this index is credited instead.