Tipsy trio

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 08/25/2019 at 01:21 • Filed to: None

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Anyone else remember these scary things? Slower than slow, even by the standards of the day. I think all of the Nissans were recalled and destroyed - I haven’t seen one in literally decades. These three make a Vanagon seem like a 911 (at least that’s how I dro ve mine...)

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pip bip - choose Corrour > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 08/25/2019 at 05:51

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never hea rd of that buyback before

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 08/25/2019 at 06:28

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The Express and the Tarago were a critical part of my yoof. Nissan only ever made the Urvan available in Oz ...and it was excellent.

SiennaMan > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 08/25/2019 at 10:02

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Reading snippets of the above brings up a serious question I’ve wandered about for a couple of years now. Under hard cornering, my Sienna feels like it would tip over before it’d go into classic fwd understeer. I’ve wondered if anyone has tested this.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > SiennaMan 08/25/2019 at 10:27

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Maybe the Swedes have run a moose test, although I suspect that the Sienna is NA-only vehicle and and thus wouldn’t have been run through that. ESC/ESP  probably stops anything particularly nasty from happening. I've tossed my Mazda5 around pretty hard but have never felt like it was all that tippy, and I don't think any of my antics have caused it to kick in, although I might have engaged it during a quick freeway exit the other day where the was a sharp S-turn and I entered it pretty hot. No warning lights IIRC...

bhtooefr > pip bip - choose Corrour 08/25/2019 at 16:36

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The Nissans had a problem that in the US, they crammed a 2.4 liter engine in a van designed for 2.0 liters max to try to get the performance to be acceptable to Americans , and they kept catching on fire.

After several recalls to try to deal with the fires, they did one last recall, with two options.

Option 1 was, they would try one last time to fix your van, and then you were on your own. If it caught fire again, that was your problem.

Option 2 was, they’d buy it back, and crush the van.

The vast majority of people went for option 2.

...apparently whatever the last fix attempt was actually worked, though, and stopped the fires.

VincentMalamute-Kim > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 08/25/2019 at 17:36

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I had a 1982(?) Toyota Van. I loved it. 4x8 sheet of plywood fits with the hatch closed in a wheelbase that was shorter than a Civic’s. Which the longer and larger Caravan’s of the time didn’t do. Seats folded into a bed. Lived in it for a couple of months during school. Pre-#vanlife.

It didn’t feel that slow. My dad’s MB 240D and 300TD were slow.  I drove it pretty hard. I wasn’t scared in it . (probably idiocy of youth ) I’d probably feel scared in it now.