At $13,500, Is This 1988 Nissan Stanza MPV The Subsequent Radwood Star?

With its 4WD and B-pillar-less mega-door openings, at the moment’s Good Value or No Cube Stanza has some actually cool options. Let’s see what we predict it ought to rightfully price in chilly exhausting money.

It took 5 minutes and 9 votes earlier than anybody had a optimistic opinion on yesterday’s $38,500 2015 Chevy Tahoe HPE500, at that time turning the outcomes from an excellent purple large solar into an ersatz Pacman. Now, over a day later, that consequence hasn’t modified all that a lot, giving the hotted-up SUV a cold-shouldered 79 p.c No Cube loss.

Have you ever ever been in a piece assembly and made a suggestion that was dismissed solely to have another person make the identical suggestion moments later garnering nice acclaim and flying Champagne corks? Irritating, isn’t it?

I think about that’s considerably how Nissan workers felt when Chrysler was touted as having invented the minivan in 1984 seeing as Nissan (then Datsun within the U.S.) had been promoting the Prairie minivan in Japan and Europe since 1981. Seeing because it didn’t arrive within the U.S. till the 1986 mannequin yr, we are able to reduce Chrysler some slack.

When it did arrive right here, Nissan’s intelligent MPV modified its title to Stanza, becoming a member of the corporate’s mid-size sedan of the identical title on supplier tons and going up towards rivals just like the Honda Civic House Wagon and Dodge Colt Vista. Nonetheless, none of its Japanese-sourced rivals may tout the Stanza wagon’s cool sliding doorways, nor the pillar-less opening afforded when all 4 had been open.

Opening these cool doorways is simply one of many occasion methods this 1988 Nissan Stanza performs. It additionally sports activities a five-speed stick and the non-compulsory part-time 4WD to go together with its 97 horsepower CA20E fuel-injected 2-liter 4.

Maybe probably the most wonderful factor about this Stanza is its situation. In accordance with the vendor, and backed up by an image of the odometer, there are solely 29,122.9 miles on the clock. Not solely that, however this 34-year-old MPV appears like a brand new automobile. There look like no flaws in both bodywork or paint and each the cool ‘80s rocker decals and the plastic wheel covers are nonetheless intact.

The cabin presents equally, with out even any apparent put on on the pedals or shift knob. The vendor claims it to be all authentic all the way down to the AM/FM/cassette stereo (take a look at the cool ceiling audio system within the again) and says that the A/C nonetheless works with out criticism.

No point out is made from the upkeep historical past or even when the automobile is rolling on authentic brake pads or different consumables. Nonetheless, seeing because it’s constructed out of a bunch of fairly frequent mechanical bits, these shouldn’t be too exhausting to seek out if they’re wanted. All of the model-specific components and people superior decals can be a lot tougher to copy or substitute, so factors must be given to these being in sound situation.

The title is clear and the vendor claims:

In case you are in search of an extremely cool and really uncommon 80’s classic journey, THIS IS IT!

For anybody in search of such a journey, the asking worth is $13,500 which, as we not too long ago realized, may purchase you a a lot newer and warmer—however far jankier—Audi S4 Avant. I’d wager that this Stanza is a bit cooler than that Audi, not less than within the ‘nerdy woman in glasses and a ponytail’ sort of coolness. The query is, would that warrant laying down $13,500 to be seen with it?

What do you say, is that this time and area capsule Stanza price that sort of money? Or, for that a lot is that this an MPV that’s simply not an MVP?

You determine!

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