The Nissan Micra, known in Latin America and in most of Asia as the Nissan March and in North America as the Nissan Versa , is a supermini produced by the Japanese automaker Nissan since 1982. The original Micra was introduced in October 1982 as a challenger to the highly successful Honda City. It was intended to replace the Nissan Cherry as the company's competitor in the supermini sector, as the Cherry model itself had progressively become larger with each successive generation. It was introduced in the European market in 1983, and in the Canadian market in 1984. Although Nissan was... slowly phasing out the Datsun name, a small "Datsun" appeared on the tailgate for the first two years, and in some European markets, the car was known as the "Datsun-Nissan Micra". The Datsun badges had disappeared completely by the end of 1984. The Micra was initially available with an extremely refined all-aluminium MA10S SOHC engine. The model was revised in June 1985, identifiable by the slightly larger rear lamp clusters.
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