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Acronym for "National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa".

Acronym for "National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing".

An American vehicle brand produced by Nash Motors Company in the period 1916 to 1936. The name is like of the patron of this company, the celebrated automobile innovator Charles W. Nash (1864-1948).

A known automobile manufacturer in Japan. The name Nissan comes from Nihon Sangyo, who bought the one-year old Jidosha Seizo Co Ltd, in 1934, and changed its name to reflect his own (also, from short of "Nichon Sangio", which means "Japanese industry"). The company's origins are further back, however. Tobata Imono started out as a foundry company, which as demand grew, started making parts for cars. In 1931 is became part of one of Japan's first car groups, called DAT, which made its first prototype back in 1912. DAT, incidentally, are the second name initials of the company's three founders, Kenjiro Den, Rokuro Aoyama and Meitaro Takeuchi.

The first production car from the new group was the Datson 91, but after a couple of years the name was changed to Datsun. Now things get even more complex, because Tobata started a new company in Yokohama, which was named Nissan. The company continued to produce Datsun models, but in 1937, with the help of newly-imported machine tools, built its first Nissan model, the 70. For overseas sales, the name Datsun was used until 1982.

Like the rest of defeated Japan's industrial capacity, in 1945, Nissan came under the control of the US authorities. Manufacturing of cars recommenced almost immediately. The Nissan company found success and built up its business effectively in the post-ware period. In 1960, Nissan made its first sales in Europe, but did not come to the UK until 1969.

The merging of Nissan and Renault was one of the largest in the automobile world. So, at the end of 1999, by production capacity, Nissan-Renault was sixth, just below DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen. In production of passenger cars, Nissan-Renault was on fifth place.

On the company logo, the circle represents the sun, and the rectangle represents the sky. Together, the company claims, the logo symbolizes them motto "Honesty brings Success".