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Prince Motor Company was a Japanese automobile manufacturer from 1952 until its merger with Nissan in 1966. Prince began as the Tachikawa Aircraft Company, a producer of the famous Japanese Zero fighter planes used in WWII. After Tachikawa Aircraft Company was dissolved after the war, the company took the name Fuji Precision Industries and diversified into automobiles, producing an electric car, the Tama, in 1946. The company changed its name to Prince in 1952 to honor Prince Akihito's formal investiture as Crown Prince. In 1954 they changed their name back to Fuji Precision Industries, and in 1961 changed the name back again to Prince Motor Company.
Prince had success building premium automobiles. Among its most famous car lines were the Skyline and Gloria, both of which were absorbed into the Nissan range after their 1966 merger; however, they also built the 15-passenger Homy which was eventually shared with the Nissan Caravan and the Nissan Laurel, a four-door sedan platform mate with the Skyline, on which Prince had begun development before the merger but was introduced after the merger in 1968. Prince had also begun development on a small car to compete with the Toyota Corolla and Nissan Sunny, but after the merger, the car was introduced as the Nissan Cherry using front wheel drive. The Prince organization remained in existence inside Nissan, though the marque disappeared. Since the merger, the Prince name survived as a Nissan dealership network in Japan until Nissan consolidated their dealership network into Nissan Blue Stage and Nissan Red Stage.
The current Nissan Gloria and the Nissan Skyline are known in the USA as the Infiniti M and the Infiniti G (2003 - current).
List of vehicles[]
- Nissan Cherry (a small front-wheel-drive coupe and sedan)
- Prince Clipper (a cabover truck) (Japanese: Prince Clipper)
- Prince Gloria (a luxury sedan)
- Prince Homer (a pickup truck based on the Homy)
- Prince Homy (a cargo van/minibus)
- Nissan Laurel (a semi-luxury sedan/coupe)
- Prince Miler (a pickup truck based on the Skyline)
- Prince R380 (a race car)
- Nissan Prince Royal (a limousine made for the Imperial Household of Japan)
- Prince Skyline (a performance coupe/sedan)
- Prince Skyway (a delivery van based on the Skyline)
See also[]
- Shinichiro Sakurai
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External links[]
Prince Motor vehicles at the Internet Archive
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