Japanese gamechangers

DATSUN 240Z (1970-1974)

Oh how they laughed in the corridors at British Leyland when they heard that Japanese manufacturer Datsun was making a sports car. One that would do battle with the likes of the MGB, Triumph GT6 and TR5/6, whose sales in the USA were pretty much keeping BL afloat despite being old-in-the-tooth.

One thing that the British manufacturers weren’t expecting, though, and nor were the Americans for that matter, was a car that was not only wellengineered (as the Japanese