@@chargermaster586 Not exactly sure what you are getting at in your message, but while we're on the topic, Datsun had a better brand identity than Nissan. (Yes, I understand they were one and the same, but Nissan never recovered after dropping the Datsun brand name and image.)
@@skylinefever 89' redesign was fantastic.I was selling them when they were new down in Florida and we had a waiting list of people who were willing to pay $2000 over list to get one.
VHS was never used for television production. In the 1980s, the most popular professional videotape formats were Betacam (similar to, but higher quality than consumer-grade Betamax) and U-Matic.
@@kz1000ps Judging by the color breakup (mostly green) I would also believe straight Betacam format. As Betacam SP had only come out in 86' as an upgrade to the format. I wouldn't expect Maryland public television to already invest in a new tape format so quickly. Betacam had only come out in 82'. So I suspect MPT would have bought Beta gear by mid 80's and dropped U-Matic. Beta in any format was expensive gear to buy, so they would have wanted to use their investment at least a few years before getting upgrade gear. It's not like public broadcasters were cash rich by any means. Their needs tended to outweigh their means most of the time, unless there was some public infusion of money for some major project. But those take years to plan.
My girlfriend back then wanted one of these so bad.Went and test drove an automatic one day and said no thanks.The Escort GT I had at the time felt like a Jet airplane in comparison.
I had one just like this in college- red with the black trim. Bought it used in 1990 and put well over 100k miles on it with hardly any problems. It was a great car, and this video brings some great memories. Yea it was very slow but that probably helped me keep my license as a foolish college kid. Thanks for posting.
Eleven grand loaded! That would be close to a base Acura Integra with 16 valves and multi-point EFI. No wonder these were so much rarer than the low-trim-level sedans and the fastback wagon.
With the exception of the rear glass canopy, the whole car looks like a Fox Mustang. Some of these are still around where I live (Greece), but with the 'Sunny' name.
I never noticed that until you pointed it out. I always thought these were great looking cars and always wanted one. They were never common where I lived and I ended up with a Trans Am and a Fox Mustang GT. I only mention them because maybe I bought the Mustang because it looked like the Sentra SE I always wanted. I still have the Ford, but if I found an SE in decent shape, I'd buy it.
What? It doesn't look anything like a fox body Mustang! I'm guessing you were born after 1990, cause anyone who lived through the '80s would never equate those two cars.
@@davidg4026 I didn't equate the Sentra to the Mustang. I just expressed an opinion on styling, as a viewer who knows a thing or two about cars. Besides, John Davis himself once said that the Fox Mustang interior is Japanese in execution! :-P And yes, you are right: I was born in '94!
@@alex_k1410 Heheheh! I've seen 5 examples! 1 white and 2 grays in my hometown and 2 reds in Athens, all having the same nice factory set of alloy wheels (edit: they have almost the same design as the wheels shown here but they are fancier, with larger square holes)! And none of them has black bumpers, they all have unicolor bumpers! Also, they all have a nice discreet black spoiler on the hatch! It's a good looking car, with its low stance and because I don't see them every day, I tend to stare at them for more than usual! Moreover, their owners care about them so we see them in decent shape! Perhaps they may've recognized it's a rare sight to behold!
The 0-60 time definitely follows. My mom had an '86 Sentra sedan with automatic transmission. Nice car, reliable, but painfully slow when time to enter a freeway.
Yep, my parents bought an automatic '87 Sentra sedan brand new, and I drove it as a hand-me-down for a couple of years after I got my license in '93. The acceleration was absolutely abominable, like something you would measure on a geologic timescale.
I owned a 1987 Corolla without power steering and with 74 HP. It is still my favorite car...fun to drive, great steering feel and I never felt it was underpowered. It only weighed 2100 pounds.
I bought my 86 GT new, and liked it until it started to fall apart in about a year. When the paint started to flake off at about 20,000 miles I got rid of it. That was the least amount of time I ever kept a car. Never owned another Ford product.
@@barryervin8536 I had a totally different experience with mine. My cousin got the escort as a gift in 95. He drove it until 2001 and gave it to me because he was going to the millitary. It was never my daily driver, but when he gave it to me it had 150K miles on it and I put another 80K on it and the only thing I ever did to it was change the timing belt, clutch, and ignition coil. I totaled it going to work in the snow in 2009. I got t-boned by a Silverado. That car never left me stranded.
In the UK Nissan sentra are known as the Nissan Sunny Coupé. my dad had brought one back in the early 90's a white one with fake turbo badge an emblem, (trending in 90's UK). It come with a 1.6 motor, manual transmission pushing an earth earth-shattering power of 90hp. They are rarely seen on the roads of Britain nowadays.
I've found that people who are unfamiliar with cars from the 1980s have a difficult time believing that a sub ten second 0-60 time was considered relatively quick, at least for the everyday cars of that era. But it's good to know that even this "sporty" Sentra SE from 1987 with a 15.5 second 0-60 was never considered quick, even when it was new.
Eric Shea press the gas pedal down all the way and the engine gets louder, that’s about it. Were mustang 5.0’s and corvettes even sub 6 second for 0-60 back then?
Was it rusting already by '96? These 80's Japanese cars had very little rust protection. You hardly see anymore because of this.. '89 Nissan Sentra was the first car I drove in driver's ed. Then within a few weeks they replaced all the Nissan sentras with Chevy Corsicas. Those were pieces of junk, I don't see those on the road anymore at all. Throw away Chevy cars..
@@marcusdamberger Of course it was! It had been repainted at least once already. Didn't rust anywhere as bad as the 2010 Ford Escape I bought in 2015 though.
Here in the UK we got a twin cam unit in the top Sunny coupe as it was called herem and even the top flight hatch had the same unit, and even the base model had all round electric windowsa, central locking and a sunroof, plus a standard Blaupunkt stereo with
That is precisely why I always have to buy an OBD-2 scanner for these newer vehicles. Almost all the vehicles at my household do not have a proper engine (water) coolant temperature gauge. Just an idiot light that shows if the temperature is below 120 Fahrenheit, or if the engine is about to overheat (warning the driver when it is already too late).
@@AWDfreak my scion xa i wired the temp light to a buzzer so when i and if it gets hot the new owner is going to shit his pants. Forgot to tell him that. Oopps
I learned to drive a manual transmission on the prior gen sentra (1984). To this date, it's the only car I had to ever downshift to maintain a speed on a highway incline. Yes, at 60 MPH in 5th gear, the car was slowing down even with the pedal all the way down going up on a bridge.
Not sure what everyone is expecting from a 8v four cylinder TBi 80's econobnox... Lol With that being said, it would've been nice if Nissan put the CA16DE or CA18DE in these for the US market. They were already offering that engine in the Pulsar NX SE here...seems kinda like a wasted opportunity especially since the hot hatch segment was huge in the 80's.
That as tested price is crazy for 1987. We visited Atlanta back around that time because my older brother was going to art school there, and I was stunned by all the Mitsubishi Cordias running around Atlanta. Seeing what this cost with some popular options and how slow it still is... and checking and seeing the top of the line 1987 Cordia TURBO (110hp) msrp was under 11.4k, I can see why they were selling so many Cordias back then where you had good Mitsubishi dealer support. My area (East Tennessee) was Nissan country though. These boxy Sentras were everywhere. Heck, I still see a few here and there today.
And I actually had one of those Cordias in Atlanta for a couple of years. It was a good car, too. Probably an '83, the first year they sold under their own name. Until I could get an MR2 (their first year, also).
Damn I saw one of these today and had to take a picture of it and now you upload it, definately needs to pay the premium for an SR20 if you dont want to loose your pinks though!
I can't say for sure I've ever seen one of these in my 30 year existence. The majority of these cars were probably all rusted away here in Michigan by 1997.
Since the 1st Nissan Sentra came to American coasts back in 1983, the Sentra name still soldiers on 36 years later, I grew up with the first Nissan Sentras, I loved my 1984 Nissan Sentra 4 door in Deluxe trim, the body rotted away and it still kept running. I miss those old Datsuns and Nissans, they were simple to maintain and work on.
I remember they're being quite a few of these on the road back in the day. Even though I was a little little kid when my sister bought a 1988 pulsar NX I remember this costing exactly the same and I remember the salesman saying they were virtually identical mechanically. The Pulsar NX was so much cooler then this thing and even as a seven-year-old I wondered why anyone would buy this when the pulsar had T-tops and pop-up headlights? LOL plus the tail lights on the Pulsar NX we're awesome is fuck!
When Nissan made it a "driver's" car. Back when they didn't focus on how well your phone interacted with your car.....or nanny gadgets so you can play with your phone instead of driving.
for a 1.6 litre that 70hp was a crap output even back then. In Europe a 1987 Ford Escort 1.6 XR3i had 115hp; Nissan Sunny (Sentra) GTi 1.6 cranked out 108hp.
*Lets see more gm 3.8 series 2 and 3 please! You guys have to have a million of them. Buicks, Pontiacs, Olds. We want to see them all because we are still driving them!*
Wonder if I’m the only one who loves those glitches in the video where the picture and sound will fade in and out for just a few seconds. It’s like the slight popping noise of an old record player.
Okay, my best friend had one that was all black that his rich parents bought for him. We used to get drunk and go to the Hollywood clubs and I was usually the "Designated Drunk Driver" because he had 2 DUIs and we were barely 20 years old. 4th of July a couple years later we were hit by a Drunk Driver that was even drunker than we were! Fortunately that was the days where you would just get a slap on the wrist if you had no priors, but when we went to look at the car at the wrecking yard I knew that God really existed. That was because it was apparent that the only other thing that saved me from death and or injury was the heavy construction of the drivers door, which was now shaped like a banana, and the large side seat cushioning. I used to love that car!! His parents bought him a 300ZX to replace it.. 80s Object Lesson: "Always reward bad behavior with BETTER STUFF"!! We can laugh about it now.. fortunately..
i had a 90 sentra hatchback , bought it as my first car from my brother who was his first car. got in a car accident and it was written off...been looking for this car ever since.
Gosh, that SE takes the oddity of the N12 wedge-shaped Pulsar and stretches it out into a better, more Accord, sleek. I have a 1991 SE-R and this is next in line in terms of Sentra bodies.
Had an 85, then a 90 and finally a 94 Maxima which just kicked the bucket two years ago. Gone are the days when Nissan built some of the worlds best cars.
The 1990s Maximas were some of the toughest cars of all time. Although I would rate Volvo bricks and Crown Vics higher, the Maxima came close in the 1990s.
I had an '88 Sport Coupe in 2001 as my first car. It was fun but underpowered. Much like the Z31 300zx I purchased a couple years later. My current daily driven MK4 Jetta 1.8t is a missile in comparison and has a large aftermarket support, which neither of those ever had.
I own one of these, its not fast but i love driving it, its fun to throw around! also mine's automatic, wish it was stick shift , itd probably be more fun haha
Neither did the showroom see any buyers on the floor. It's amazing this company even survived this long. Honda and Toyota had nothing to worry about back then.
80s nothing. A stick shift 1987 Honda would have eaten this thing's doors off in 1987. The Nissan would be in the rear view mirror 1/2 way through 1st gear-on. LOL
I'm restoring one of these cars (it's called hikari down here in México)... and even though it's the same engine block, it's rated 88 hp, it has double barrel carb, and certainly less stringent emmisions controls. For sure it's not that slow as the one reviewed.
The Nissan Sentra and Toyota Corolla were probably better than the Honda Civic of the time. Back in 1987, My dad owned a Hyundai Excel. It had even less power than this Nissan did. He had to accelerate at full throttle all the time in order not to get crushed by oncoming traffic.
I recall those Excels. Oddly named given their speed ability. My family test drove one with an automatic transmission & had 5 passengers in it. I thought of just getting out & walking. Never experienced such low power!
A friend's parents used to have one of these in the EXACT same color exterior & interior!!!!!! Could you also post your '86 SE test? 3:45.........TBFI would make its way to all Sentras for 1988.
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That's actually pretty good looking for a 1987 car. I miss the 80's/90's REAL Nissans.
I was thinking the same thing, it is nice looking. Unlike the vaguely Asian looking B-210 or the hideous F-10.
Most people don't miss the 1985-1988 Nissan Maxima.
@@skylinefever it talked to you! That was a pretty cool novelty of that era that select few cars had.
I had a 91 Sentra SE-R . That was a fun little car. Twin cam, limited slip differential,7500k redline
@@nate678 everyone I've ever come across who owned an SE-R loved it and miss it. I hear they were really reliable too. God I miss old Nissan.
I miss pre- French Nissan.
You are going to trigger Scotty Kilmer.
= reliable Nissan
Renault Nissan 2019 Datsun pre 1984
Me too!
@@chargermaster586 Not exactly sure what you are getting at in your message, but while we're on the topic, Datsun had a better brand identity than Nissan. (Yes, I understand they were one and the same, but Nissan never recovered after dropping the Datsun brand name and image.)
When Nissan was still Nissan.
And not too far gone from the Datsun days
Yeah, now they build junk like the GTR, infiniti G, and 370z....
In 1987, the Maxima definitely wasn't as good as it should have been. It wouldn't be until 1989 that the Maxima was good again.
@@skylinefever 89' redesign was fantastic.I was selling them when they were new down in Florida and we had a waiting list of people who were willing to pay $2000 over list to get one.
Truth be told better than pintos Vegas and the rest of American made "economy" cars
Good old tape tracking‼️
Sony 3/4 SP
Those VHS tracking lines really do it for me!😂 Long live the 80's!
Car companies usually get better with age, unfortunately Nissan isn't one of them.
I love my newer nissan
Nissan was great when the japanese economy was booming
after the recession they resorted to cost cutting and what not and they still havent recovered
I have 2019 Altima SR no complaints here and my sister has a 2016 SR 70K Miles still running fine
The merger with Renault has decreased quality and reliability.
@@ShaiyanHossain I agree had way cooler cars back then, i missed the Pulsar, the Stanza, 240Sx, and this sport Sentra.
Nothing takes me back like real VHS tape tracking artifacts. Not even a 20-second 1/4 mile!
At that speed, you'd never get all the way back anyways...BETA!!
U-Matic
VHS was never used for television production. In the 1980s, the most popular professional videotape formats were Betacam (similar to, but higher quality than consumer-grade Betamax) and U-Matic.
Yep, this is straight from the tape, probably U-Matic but maybe first gen Betacam
@@kz1000ps Judging by the color breakup (mostly green) I would also believe straight Betacam format. As Betacam SP had only come out in 86' as an upgrade to the format. I wouldn't expect Maryland public television to already invest in a new tape format so quickly. Betacam had only come out in 82'. So I suspect MPT would have bought Beta gear by mid 80's and dropped U-Matic. Beta in any format was expensive gear to buy, so they would have wanted to use their investment at least a few years before getting upgrade gear. It's not like public broadcasters were cash rich by any means. Their needs tended to outweigh their means most of the time, unless there was some public infusion of money for some major project. But those take years to plan.
Whenever I need a good laugh I always can depend on motorweek's 1980s 0 to 60 times.
My girlfriend back then wanted one of these so bad.Went and test drove an automatic one day and said no thanks.The Escort GT I had at the time felt like a Jet airplane in comparison.
My old man reply to that is "you don't need a ton of horsepower or a sub 5 second 0 to 60 time to have a car that's enjoyable to drive"
@@emeyer6963automatic....
I still have my 2 doors 1988 Sentra I bought it new and with only 89,000 miles NO rust, I'm glad I listened to my mom when I was only 19 y/o lol
I had one just like this in college- red with the black trim. Bought it used in 1990 and put well over 100k miles on it with hardly any problems. It was a great car, and this video brings some great memories. Yea it was very slow but that probably helped me keep my license as a foolish college kid. Thanks for posting.
Wrap around rear window: my favorite styling cue of the 80's.
The terrible thing is when it get broken hard to find .
3:01 John: Angled speaker cabinets make arm resting impossible! LOL
That fad didn't last long
5:05 anyone else notice the distortion around the hazard lights?
Eleven grand loaded! That would be close to a base Acura Integra with 16 valves and multi-point EFI. No wonder these were so much rarer than the low-trim-level sedans and the fastback wagon.
Motorweek, You did not specify which Melville novel to read during those quarter mile endurance runs.
With Those 0 to 60 times I would guess the longest one!
Right Lane Hog: Moby-Dick.
all of them.
I used to enjoy Joseph Campbell’s Hero With A Thousand Faces during my onramp acceleration adventures in the old trusty 1986 Pulsar Sentra N12
With the exception of the rear glass canopy, the whole car looks like a Fox Mustang. Some of these are still around where I live (Greece), but with the 'Sunny' name.
Mafioso Italiano. I’m going to Greece this summer, I’ll be on the lookout for them! :)
I never noticed that until you pointed it out. I always thought these were great looking cars and always wanted one. They were never common where I lived and I ended up with a Trans Am and a Fox Mustang GT. I only mention them because maybe I bought the Mustang because it looked like the Sentra SE I always wanted. I still have the Ford, but if I found an SE in decent shape, I'd buy it.
What? It doesn't look anything like a fox body Mustang! I'm guessing you were born after 1990, cause anyone who lived through the '80s would never equate those two cars.
@@davidg4026 I didn't equate the Sentra to the Mustang. I just expressed an opinion on styling, as a viewer who knows a thing or two about cars.
Besides, John Davis himself once said that the Fox Mustang interior is Japanese in execution! :-P
And yes, you are right: I was born in '94!
@@alex_k1410 Heheheh! I've seen 5 examples! 1 white and 2 grays in my hometown and 2 reds in Athens, all having the same nice factory set of alloy wheels (edit: they have almost the same design as the wheels shown here but they are fancier, with larger square holes)! And none of them has black bumpers, they all have unicolor bumpers! Also, they all have a nice discreet black spoiler on the hatch!
It's a good looking car, with its low stance and because I don't see them every day, I tend to stare at them for more than usual!
Moreover, their owners care about them so we see them in decent shape! Perhaps they may've recognized it's a rare sight to behold!
The 0-60 time definitely follows. My mom had an '86 Sentra sedan with automatic transmission. Nice car, reliable, but painfully slow when time to enter a freeway.
Yep, my parents bought an automatic '87 Sentra sedan brand new, and I drove it as a hand-me-down for a couple of years after I got my license in '93. The acceleration was absolutely abominable, like something you would measure on a geologic timescale.
Love to see the old school American Tourister luggage 🧳 not a roller bag to be found. 😆
"Hey Grandpa...what's a carburetor"? - ahhh the good old old days...
I owned a 1987 Corolla without power steering and with 74 HP. It is still my favorite car...fun to drive, great steering feel and I never felt it was underpowered. It only weighed 2100 pounds.
Now the Corolla weighs approximately 1,000 lbs more. My 88 Mercury Tracer was a hot hatch with over 80 hp!
My 86 Escort GT had 108 hp. It was a Rocketship! LOL!
@@barryervin8536 I had an 87 Escort GT. I loved that car!!!
I bought my 86 GT new, and liked it until it started to fall apart in about a year. When the paint started to flake off at about 20,000 miles I got rid of it. That was the least amount of time I ever kept a car. Never owned another Ford product.
@@barryervin8536 I had a totally different experience with mine. My cousin got the escort as a gift in 95. He drove it until 2001 and gave it to me because he was going to the millitary. It was never my daily driver, but when he gave it to me it had 150K miles on it and I put another 80K on it and the only thing I ever did to it was change the timing belt, clutch, and ignition coil. I totaled it going to work in the snow in 2009. I got t-boned by a Silverado. That car never left me stranded.
In the UK Nissan sentra are known as the Nissan Sunny Coupé. my dad had brought one back in the early 90's a white one with fake turbo badge an emblem, (trending in 90's UK). It come with a 1.6 motor, manual transmission pushing an earth earth-shattering
power of 90hp. They are rarely seen on the roads of Britain nowadays.
I love these retro reviews
I still remember to this day when my cousin bought one of these right off the showroom floor. It was red and black. So sleek looking
The red ones were super nice!
I love this Sentra.. would of been great if it came with the Pulsar SE's CA16DE which would of make it a real sport compact.
Dunno in USA, but in Europe you got CA18DE in these just shy of 130 HP. 0-60 in 8.0 sec. They still about. I own one with GA16 95 HP.
when Nissan made good cars
Yeah i missed the Pulsar, Stanza, 240Sx, and that sporty Sentra-SE type. hate the Altima, the Stanza was much more fitting.
I've found that people who are unfamiliar with cars from the 1980s have a difficult time believing that a sub ten second 0-60 time was considered relatively quick, at least for the everyday cars of that era. But it's good to know that even this "sporty" Sentra SE from 1987 with a 15.5 second 0-60 was never considered quick, even when it was new.
Eric Shea press the gas pedal down all the way and the engine gets louder, that’s about it. Were mustang 5.0’s and corvettes even sub 6 second for 0-60 back then?
@@beb1527nope, around 8 seconds for a stock LX5.0
Parents had one back in the day. 3 kids, 2 adults, 3 dogs towing a popup camper was a great weekend. HA.
My first car! Got mine in 96 so it was already a bit old. Man was it slow, but I loved it.
Was it rusting already by '96? These 80's Japanese cars had very little rust protection. You hardly see anymore because of this.. '89 Nissan Sentra was the first car I drove in driver's ed. Then within a few weeks they replaced all the Nissan sentras with Chevy Corsicas. Those were pieces of junk, I don't see those on the road anymore at all. Throw away Chevy cars..
@@marcusdamberger Of course it was! It had been repainted at least once already. Didn't rust anywhere as bad as the 2010 Ford Escape I bought in 2015 though.
Here in the UK we got a twin cam unit in the top Sunny coupe as it was called herem and even the top flight hatch had the same unit, and even the base model had all round electric windowsa, central locking and a sunroof, plus a standard Blaupunkt stereo with
Aqui en Mexico se vendió bajo el nombre de Nissan hikari, greetings from Jalisco Mexico.
All the new cool builds that show up in my feed and I immediately go to click this Sentra vid from Motorweek. lol Simply the best.
TRS 80 Model II at the desk.
I noticed that too! Didn't realize they were still around in '87.
@@PrinceMoonbeam Lol Trash 80
Gages are lacking. No volts or oil pressure. At least it has a temp gage, unlike many cars today.
That is precisely why I always have to buy an OBD-2 scanner for these newer vehicles. Almost all the vehicles at my household do not have a proper engine (water) coolant temperature gauge. Just an idiot light that shows if the temperature is below 120 Fahrenheit, or if the engine is about to overheat (warning the driver when it is already too late).
Now we see cars with literal no gauges!
People who come from the 70's cars would get a stroke
@@AWDfreak my scion xa i wired the temp light to a buzzer so when i and if it gets hot the new owner is going to shit his pants. Forgot to tell him that. Oopps
and John doesn't complain about the gauges nowadays
Classic Nissan before the cvts came into place
CVTs get a bad rep, but I like mine in my Altima. 0-60 in under 7 secs with the 3.5 V6.
Brent Lee, they get a bad rep for a reason. There’s been numerous lawsuits you know...
70 hp
94 lbs ft
0-60 15.5
1/4 mile 20 sec @ 68 mph
Derp
There are now E bicicyles that can do the 1/4 mile around 16secs
I learned to drive a manual transmission on the prior gen sentra (1984). To this date, it's the only car I had to ever downshift to maintain a speed on a highway incline. Yes, at 60 MPH in 5th gear, the car was slowing down even with the pedal all the way down going up on a bridge.
That’s slow as hell 😂
And just remember those hilarious 0 to 60 time to do it with a manual can you imagine what automatic would’ve been
Not sure what everyone is expecting from a 8v four cylinder TBi 80's econobnox... Lol
With that being said, it would've been nice if Nissan put the CA16DE or CA18DE in these for the US market. They were already offering that engine in the Pulsar NX SE here...seems kinda like a wasted opportunity especially since the hot hatch segment was huge in the 80's.
Give it some decent torque and I'd drive a simple car like that all day everyday.
Thanks MW!
bought this as my first car the 88 one. i love it so far it’s kinda older in design but it seems reliable.
That as tested price is crazy for 1987. We visited Atlanta back around that time because my older brother was going to art school there, and I was stunned by all the Mitsubishi Cordias running around Atlanta. Seeing what this cost with some popular options and how slow it still is... and checking and seeing the top of the line 1987 Cordia TURBO (110hp) msrp was under 11.4k, I can see why they were selling so many Cordias back then where you had good Mitsubishi dealer support. My area (East Tennessee) was Nissan country though. These boxy Sentras were everywhere. Heck, I still see a few here and there today.
And I actually had one of those Cordias in Atlanta for a couple of years. It was a good car, too. Probably an '83, the first year they sold under their own name.
Until I could get an MR2 (their first year, also).
I wish I’d own one of these and swap an sr20 turbo. Perfect project car
Damn I saw one of these today and had to take a picture of it and now you upload it, definately needs to pay the premium for an SR20 if you dont want to loose your pinks though!
5:53 VHS tape trying to kill itself.
I can't say for sure I've ever seen one of these in my 30 year existence. The majority of these cars were probably all rusted away here in Michigan by 1997.
They were nice little coupes rusted out way to early
I owned one w/ manual transmission.
Never gave me a problem.
Lots of plastic...but it was fun to drive.
This was my first new car. 87 sentra sport coupe.
Aaah sweet memories. I had one in my high school days, I thought it was fast until a brand new 96 Buick Riviera blew my doors off 😔
Finally great seats! Now let’s make a car worthy of them! Comes the best gen yet, the SE-R in 1990. Wish they still made good cars like that.
Love these retro episodes
I LOVED the full body red ones!
This version of the Sentra is very rare. I prefer this Sentra SE over the basic Sentra. It's hard to find, though.
Since the 1st Nissan Sentra came to American coasts back in 1983, the Sentra name still soldiers on 36 years later, I grew up with the first Nissan Sentras, I loved my 1984 Nissan Sentra 4 door in Deluxe trim, the body rotted away and it still kept running. I miss those old Datsuns and Nissans, they were simple to maintain and work on.
I remember they're being quite a few of these on the road back in the day. Even though I was a little little kid when my sister bought a 1988 pulsar NX I remember this costing exactly the same and I remember the salesman saying they were virtually identical mechanically. The Pulsar NX was so much cooler then this thing and even as a seven-year-old I wondered why anyone would buy this when the pulsar had T-tops and pop-up headlights? LOL plus the tail lights on the Pulsar NX we're awesome is fuck!
My second used car, but my first functional car.
Drove it for a couple of years.
When Nissan made it a "driver's" car. Back when they didn't focus on how well your phone interacted with your car.....or nanny gadgets so you can play with your phone instead of driving.
I've never actually seen a Sentra 3 door. It looks pretty sporty.
They were awesome! The style was amazing for a Sentra.
I’ve never seen this car before! I quite like it; I probably would’ve bought one back then. Sentras sure have come a long way....
Had one of these. The only problem with it was the rack and pinion that needed replacement on multiple occasions. But I loved it.
Amazing that cars were once acceptable with 70 hp.
Or skinny 12 and 13" diameter wheels.
Now, a Prius comes with 18"s!
Not acceptable, the golf's and gti's were much faster, even the base golf with 85hp.
for a 1.6 litre that 70hp was a crap output even back then. In Europe a 1987 Ford Escort 1.6 XR3i had 115hp; Nissan Sunny (Sentra) GTi 1.6 cranked out 108hp.
vector6977 Probably can’t even find them anymore!
Steven Froese That’s still crazy to me, and I remember these Sentras as a kid.
*Lets see more gm 3.8 series 2 and 3 please! You guys have to have a million of them. Buicks, Pontiacs, Olds. We want to see them all because we are still driving them!*
If the 3.8 didn't have such stupid intake gaskets, it would have been perfect.
Nissan's from this era had impeccable reliability and longevity.
They were pretty solid,maybe not as refined as Toyota but generally very solid.
@@tinkynine3351 yes. It took Nissan a long time to introduce 16 v engines. And Those engines were superb..
Totally!
GOOD REVIEW & GREAT SENTRA.
Mitsubishi Diamante please!
Wonder if I’m the only one who loves those glitches in the video where the picture and sound will fade in and out for just a few seconds. It’s like the slight popping noise of an old record player.
Okay, my best friend had one that was all black that his rich parents bought for him. We used to get drunk and go to the Hollywood clubs and I was usually the "Designated Drunk Driver" because he had 2 DUIs and we were barely 20 years old. 4th of July a couple years later we were hit by a Drunk Driver that was even drunker than we were! Fortunately that was the days where you would just get a slap on the wrist if you had no priors, but when we went to look at the car at the wrecking yard I knew that God really existed. That was because it was apparent that the only other thing that saved me from death and or injury was the heavy construction of the drivers door, which was now shaped like a banana, and the large side seat cushioning. I used to love that car!! His parents bought him a 300ZX to replace it.. 80s Object Lesson: "Always reward bad behavior with BETTER STUFF"!! We can laugh about it now.. fortunately..
I miss cars with lots of glass and airy cabins, unlike today’s gun slit tank-like cabins
I have one of these with less than 100k miles. One of the best cars I've owned. Picked it up two years ago for $1200
😳😆🤣🤣 That 0-60 and quarter mile run was abysmal. 😂😂
i had a 90 sentra hatchback , bought it as my first car from my brother who was his first car. got in a car accident and it was written off...been looking for this car ever since.
Gosh, that SE takes the oddity of the N12 wedge-shaped Pulsar and stretches it out into a better, more Accord, sleek. I have a 1991 SE-R and this is next in line in terms of Sentra bodies.
video tape damage took me back to many years
Speaking of the CRX, when are you guys going to post the vintage review of it?
I think they did. Both generations.
Had an 85, then a 90 and finally a 94 Maxima which just kicked the bucket two years ago. Gone are the days when Nissan built some of the worlds best cars.
The 1990s Maximas were some of the toughest cars of all time. Although I would rate Volvo bricks and Crown Vics higher, the Maxima came close in the 1990s.
Looks like a larger-sized Pulsar NX
I'd like to see a review of this Nissan with the 1.8 ca18de engine...
I had an '88 Sport Coupe in 2001 as my first car. It was fun but underpowered. Much like the Z31 300zx I purchased a couple years later. My current daily driven MK4 Jetta 1.8t is a missile in comparison and has a large aftermarket support, which neither of those ever had.
I own one of these, its not fast but i love driving it, its fun to throw around! also mine's automatic, wish it was stick shift , itd probably be more fun haha
Much better sentra than the one today. The current Sentra is a joke unless SR but even still
Back in that in between time where you could get dual overhead cams and a carburetor.
I wonder where this was filmed. The slalom and speed runs look like they're on a newly constructed state highway
Never seen one on the road
Neither did the showroom see any buyers on the floor. It's amazing this company even survived this long. Honda and Toyota had nothing to worry about back then.
The Sentra was originally sold as the Sunny in the domestic Japanese market
20 second quarter mile times! And some want to bring the 80s back!
Ha ha ha. I've always thought the 80s cars, especially the domestics were viewed as junk. I guess time makes us forget.
@@chriscornelius2518 no, they sucked, but so did all of the other cars at the time!
People: we miss the 80's!
*Sees regular cars from that era*
Eh, maybe we miss the 90's instead?
Indeed, 4 years later the base Sentra had a DOHC 16 valve engine making 110hp and the SE-R version was available with 140hp.
It's Ders Mane I didn't drive in the 80's so it's still my favorite era lol.
Then they look at the "jellybean" shaped cars, and blasting some good ole 90's beat! 🤣😳😳
that's a nice colour too
>Sports coupe
>0-60 time of 15.5 seconds
Oh the 80's...
80s nothing. A stick shift 1987 Honda would have eaten this thing's doors off in 1987. The Nissan would be in the rear view mirror 1/2 way through 1st gear-on. LOL
In México we used to have the turbo versión but stills slow, a SE-R 2.0 was super faster.
Classic...
I wish it had the CA16 engine like we got in Indonesian market Sentra coupes of the same age!
Gotta love those 80's retro "wannabe" like hatchback sport coupes...."SPORT" 😉😉 But, damn they look great still, even today!
I'm restoring one of these cars (it's called hikari down here in México)... and even though it's the same engine block, it's rated 88 hp, it has double barrel carb, and certainly less stringent emmisions controls. For sure it's not that slow as the one reviewed.
The Nissan Sentra and Toyota Corolla were probably better than the Honda Civic of the time.
Back in 1987, My dad owned a Hyundai Excel. It had even less power than this Nissan did. He had to accelerate at full throttle all the time in order not to get crushed by oncoming traffic.
I recall those Excels. Oddly named given their speed ability. My family test drove one with an automatic transmission & had 5 passengers in it. I thought of just getting out & walking. Never experienced such low power!
A friend's parents used to have one of these in the EXACT same color exterior & interior!!!!!! Could you also post your '86 SE test? 3:45.........TBFI would make its way to all Sentras for 1988.
Before renault. Bet that b12 still runs....
my 77 B210 hatch 5-speed manual was a great car.
This was my high school car, in black, in 1996.
The 80s Giant accordion shifter-boots.
We're looking for some spares for this car if you can help ? Thanks
Hi everyone when I was young I have a car like that , so now my question is this kind of car is considered a sport car?
I like the look of 80s japanese cars. I want something like this to use as a commuter but one that isn’t crapped out is pretty expensive
I bought mine for 3500 euro, in perfect condition with 130000km on the odometer
5:05 - notice how turning signal expands the bumper :-o