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Another post in the How many are left series and today I’ll dive into how many Nissan S-Cargos have been registered in the Netherlands.

1989 Nissan S-Cargo parked at my local multistory parking garage

I’m not going to explain in great detail what the Nissan S-Cargo is. The S-Cargo was the third Pikes car, preceded by the Be-1, Pao and succeeded by the Figaro and the Rasheen. The S-Cargo was introduced at the Tokyo Motor Show in 1989 and manufactured between 1989 and 1991. If you wish to learn more about the S-Cargo, I covered it in great detail in my S-Cargo Down on the Street post.

Finding the S-Cargo

To find all Nissans registered as S-Cargo was quite an extensive search: I found the S-Cargo to be registered under the following names:

Of all the Pikes cars, the Nissan S-Cargo is definitely the most extravagant. Almost all Pikes cars were retro styled after a specific European car: the Nissan Figaro was styled after the Autobianchi Bianchina Trasformabile, the Nissan Pao after the original Renault R4, the Nissan Rasheen after the Wartbug 353, the Be-1 after the Mini and the Nissan S-Cargo after the Citroën 2CV Camionette. (also called the Fourgonette) Shortly after the Citroën 2CV was released, it received the nickname Ugly Duckling thanks to the Dutch and nowadays this is considered the defacto nickname for it. However, in the UK it has the nickname The Tin Snail and escargot means snail in French, so the name S-Cargo is a double pun here! If you squint your eyes, you can see what the design of the S-Cargo is based upon below:

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