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2008 Nissan Aprio (aka Dacia Logan) Is Junkyard Treasure
Yes, a Mexican-market, Brazilian-built Romanian car made it to Colorado. Murilee Martin
It s such a Kafkaesque bureaucratic nightmare to get Canadian- or Mexican-market cars across the border into the United States that I don t find many such machines during my junkyard travels. I d found a Honda Civic and a Peugeot 505 from Canada plus a Chevrolet Chevy (aka Opel Corsa) from Mexico and that was it… until I spotted this mysterious econo-sedan with Nissan badges in a Denver yard last week. Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
Then I saw the registration stickers from Coahuila State in Mexico and knew I was seeing some sort of badge-engineering exercise from the fringes of the far-flung Nissan-Renault Empire. The Aprio was a Brazilian-assembled first-generation Dacia Logan, sold only in Mexico and ultimately replaced by the Versa after just six years of availability.