Nissan · 1991–1992
Nissan Figaro
The Nissan Figaro is a two-door car manufactured by Nissan in February 1991 for the Japanese market. Based on the original Nissan March/Micra, the Figaro is a fixed-profile convertible with a 2+2 seating arrangement. It shares the March's front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout. When new, it was sold only through Nissan Cherry Stores. A total of 20,073 Figaros were produced by Nissan in the convertible's single year of series production, all with right-hand drive; As of 2019, at least 3,000 Figaros have been grey imported to Great Britain and Ireland. There are a few examples of left-hand drive conversions for countries that have right-hand traffic. Furthermore, their popularity has increased even more since they are now recognized as classic cars under the 25-year rule, making them eligible for import into the United States, sale to private users. Because of its origins at Pike Factory, Nissan's special project group, the Figaro (along with the Nissan Pao, Be-1, and S-Cargo) is one of Nissan's "Pike cars," and represented a design strategy that adapted "design and marketing strategies from other industries like personal electronics". In 2011, design critic Phil Patton, writing for the New York Times, called the Pike cars "the height of postmodernism" and "unabashedly retro, promiscuously combining elements of the Citroën 2CV, Renault 4, Mini, and Fiat 500".
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