The Nissan Primera was a large family car produced by the Japanese automaker Nissan for the Japanese domestic and European markets. Since 1986, Nissan had been building Bluebirds—it was essentially a re-badged home-market Auster/Stanza – for the European market at its factory in Washington, Tyne and Wear, England. In the autumn of 1990, Nissan replaced the UK Bluebird with the Primera. It had a conventional front-wheel drive chassis and five-speed manual gearbox, with some versions getting the option of a four-speed automatic. Power came from 1.6-litre carburetor and 1.8-litre and... 2.0-litre injection gasoline engines; a 2.0-litre diesel followed from 1992 onwards, a 1.6-litre injection gasoline was introduced at the end of 1993. The 1.8-litre version was not sold in the rest of Europe. Bodystyles were four- and five-door saloons and five-door estate the last of which was only made in Japan. Nissan had deliberately targeted the car at the European market. The Primera saw Nissan's multi-link front suspension applied to front-wheel drive for the first time. The 2.
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