Nissan Leopard
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The Nissan Leopard is one of Nissan's introductory lines of luxury sports cars. The Leopard line began in 1980. They have been built on the chassis of the Nissan Cedric and Nissan Gloria.
The first Generation Nissan Leopard was called the F30. The Second Generation Leopard was called the F31. The f31 leopard was only available in Coupe in Japan. In the US, 5000 were imported and 1/2 were made to Convertibles by ASC. This the f31 was called the Infiniti M30. It is the only Vert offered by Infiniti. The third Generation was called Y32 leopard J. Ferie. Came only in sedan and followed the style of the U13 bluebirds and Nissan Altimas. The back end would slope down. The forth and last Generation of the leopard was the picture you see below. Based off the Y33 Gloria and Cima chassis. Every Generation has been rear wheel drive.
For anything about F31s, please check [F31club.com]
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The F31 Leopard was to Nissan what the GZ20 Soarer was to Toyota. Wheraes the Soarer had the 1G-GTE twin-turbo 2L straight six. The very similar-looking Leopard coupe came with the options of a VG30DET,VG30DE,VG20DET post 1988, pre 1988 VG20ET, and VG20E. Early 2.0 turbo versions had the single-cam(per bank) VG20ET, but from August 1988, the quad cam version appeared, the body was also facelifted at this time. Available in top spec form was the 3L,VG30DET,190 kW engine. Only the VG20ET and VG20DET engines were intercooled, and only VG20E engined examples had the option of manual transmission. Compared to the soarer,the Leopard is probably more angular,but with neater detailing around the lights. The lights are also flush, without the strange proportions of soarer glass. The VG20 V6 is not quite as smooth as the straight-six in the Soarer, and actually has a lower rev limiit,(insert: the vg30 revs to 7000 red line.) It produces surprisingly good torque in turbo form, and is generally quite a reliable unit.
Television
The F31 Leopard was made famous in Japanese TV Drama series "Abunai Deka"(),a car for 2 policemen heroes:"Sext" O-shita(Kyohei Shibata) & "Dandy" Takayama(Hiroshi Tachi).
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