The Laurel was cancelled subsequent to Nissan's alliance with Renault. Nissan intermittently listed the Laurel for sale in various Asian and European markets (it was also sold in Chile, Panama and other South American markets as the Datsun Laurel or Datsun 200l included Argentina, starting in the late seventies), and then mostly discontinued the export of this model from 1989. Since 1968, eight generations of Laurel have been manufactured in Japan. Instead the Laurel was sold at Nissan Motor Shop as the junior model to the larger V8-powered Nissan President. The Laurel was not marketed new in Japan at Nissan Prince Shop locations that sold the Skyline and Gloria, former Prince products. Released as a Nissan after Prince merged with Nissan, Laurels shared many components and architectures with the Skyline range. The first Laurel was developed by the Nissan Tsurumi R&D Division and assembled at the Musashimurayama Plant of the former Prince Motor Company in 2-door and 4-door variants. In Japan, the Laurel was marketed soley as a Nissan model, rather than a Datsun model. Introduced in 1968 as a new model positioned above the 1968 Datsun Bluebird 510, the Laurel offered the luxury of the Nissan Cedric 130 in a smaller size. The Nissan Laurel is a front-engine, rear-drive two- and four-door sedan manufactured and marketed by Nissan from 1969 to 2002.
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