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Sentra seems to be a name adopted by Nissan and Datsun when no other name will do for a compact car. It first appeared (as Datsun Sentra) as the Mexican name for the [[Nissan Sunny]] in the 1970s, but most famously, it is synonymous with front-wheel-drive Sunnys in the US. In the mid-1980s, Sentra was used for a range combining both [[Nissan Pulsar|Pulsar]] and Sunny variants in New Zealand, and this situation remained till the end of the 1990s when local assembly stopped. In South Africa, Sentra adorned some Pulsar models. By 2000, however, Sentra was its own line with its own bodyshell, built in Mexico for the North American market, owing only its platform to the Sunny. In 2006, a new Sentra appeared on the [[Renault Mégane]] platform, bearing no similarity to the Sunny-replacing [[Nissan Tiida|Tiida]] in Japan, which rested on a stretched [[Renault Clio]] one. The name still adorns various interpretations of the Pulsar and the related [[Nissan Bluebird Sylphy|Bluebird Sylphy]] in the Netherlands Antilles, Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia.


*[[Nissan Sunny (B11)]]
*[[Nissan Sunny (B12)]]
*[[Nissan Pulsar (N13)]]
*[[Nissan Sunny (B13)]]
*[[Nissan Pulsar (N14)]]
*[[Nissan Sunny (B14)]]
*[[Nissan Pulsar (N15)]]
*[[Nissan Bluebird Sylphy (G10)]]
*[[Nissan Sentra (B15)]]
*[[Nissan Sentra (B16)]]
*[[Nissan Bluebird Sylphy (G11)]]
*[[Nissan Sylphy (L12F)]]


''Marque:'' [[Nissan]] | ''Predecessor:'' [[Nissan Sunny]]

''q.v.'' [[Nissan Sunny]], [[Nissan Pulsar]], [[Nissan Bluebird Sylphy]]


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