Part the first
Before reading, press play, and begin stretching your empathy out for this heart warming/ breaking/ raping story.
Now they say that man’s best friend is dog, that might be true, but Miles’ best friend is his car…
Picture the year, 1992. Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II. Windows 3.1 is released by Microsoft. Sweden wins the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague and the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests. You may be lead to believe that these are the events that shaped 1992, the most significant world turning upside down, crap ya pants holy-mother-fuckery, but you’d be surely mistaken. The truth is that the biggest thing to occur was also one of the smallest it’s respected field.
The second-generation K11 was built.
A machine was produced, with radical ideas, simple aims. Why go from A to B when you can get to B via C at the same time and with a bigger smile on your face? Why indeed. An aluminium 1 litre engine was produced, fuel efficient and reliable. That’s fine it’ll do.” Is what you might have heard at some other car company, not at Nissan, not at that time. Why not add an ECCS fuel injection system? Why not double the number of valves? Those are the questions you might have heard at Nissan. And those questions were answered in this pseudo conversation between fictional bad-ass engineers. Answered with this:
Alright, best put in a toughened safety cage in as well.
Coming toward the end of 1992, the K11 is rolled out to car dealerships across Europe. A name needed to be given to the K11, a family name must be etched into stone, into history and the hearts of millions, but what name could possibly encapsulate the detail, the desire, and the passion? A name was chosen.
Nissan Micra
By the end of 1992, the Micra had already begun collecting its awards for the car of the year… But the best was still to come…
