I do find it interesting... a number of marketing analysts have brought up the fact that the name change from Datsun to Nissan is one of the biggest blunders in the history of the car industry in America... "Datsun" was *the* number one Japanese brand in America... when the Nissan name came along, people didn't know exactly what to make of it... Nissan had to build brand-recognition all over from scratch... and that provided a gap large enough for Toyota to cram 10 million Corollas into...