Fun and efficient Nissan Pao tastefully modified with black exterior and subtle trim changes. Pao are neat little cars – nice size for around town or for short road-trips. Nice flip-down tailgate give you a place to sit and flip-out rear windows are a few retro-touches – that bring back the fun of getting out and driving. Quite good condition – runs and drives well and AC and power rag-top work – just in time for Spring.

From Wikipedia – The Nissan Pao is a retro-styled three-door hatchback manufactured by Nissan for model years 1989-1991, and originally marketed solely in Japan at their Nissan Cherry Stores.

First announced at the Tokyo Motor Show in October 1987, the Pao was available with or without a textile sun roof and was originally marketed without Nissan branding, by reservation only from January 15 through April 14, 1989. Orders were delivered on a first come-first served basis, with the production run of 51,657 selling out in 3 months.^[2]

Because of its origins at Pike Factory, Nissan’s special project group, the Pao — along with the Nissan Figaro, Be-1 and S-Cargo — are known as Nissan’s “Pike cars.”

In 2011, noted design critic Phil Patton, writing for the New York Times, called the Pike cars “the height of postmodernism“^[3] and “unabashedly retro, promiscuously combining elements of the Citroën 2CV, Renault 4, Mini [and] Fiat 500.”^[3]