Nissan Highlights "Evolution of the Sports Sedan" with Road Trip to Monterey ... - The Auto Channel (blog)

For this year's Monterey Motorsports Reunion, Nissan is taking a pair of museum cars – a 1967 Datsun 411 and 1972 Datsun 510 – filling the tires and gas tanks and putting them on the road. Throw in a showroom-fresh 2016 Nissan Maxima and you've got a rolling exhibition called "The Evolution of the Sports Sedan. "We're looking forward to joining the weekend celebration of legendary automobiles and race cars with our trio of old and new sports sedans," said Pierre Loing, vice president, Product Planning, Nissan North America, Inc. "The Datsun 411 and Datsun 510 helped establish Nissan in the United States, while the Maxima today continues as the flagship of our sedan lineup. The three Datsun/Nissan sedans will be driven from Los Angeles to Monterey by a group of automotive media and Nissan employees, accompanied by a Nissan NV support vehicle – but no trailer. The Nissan Garage will also be home base for the No. 75 Nissan 300ZX racer that in. Source: www.theautochannel.com