Nissan Sunny
The Pulsar EXA was known in North America as the Pulsar NX and shared many of its parts with the Nissan Sentra. It was available from 1982 to 1986 and came with several of the engines also seen in the regular Pulsars. In North America. where it arrived for model year 1983, it received either the fuel injected turbocharged E15ET engine or the carburetted naturally aspirated E16S engine. The Pulsar EXA followed a successful strategy Nissan used in Japan of offering the economical Nissan Sunny in an affordable, youth-oriented two-door coupé, demonstrated by the Nissan Sunny fastback coupé, which was offered since the Sunny's introduction in 1966. As the Pulsar was a companion to the Nissan Sunny, but offered at a different Japanese Nissan dealership called "Nissan Cherry Store", the Pulsar EXA followed in the tradition of the Sunny Coupé. The car's peculiar upright styling is partially due to the decision to use the regular Pulsar's rather tall windshield and cowl. As a result, the dashboard was largely identical to that of a Pulsar hatchback or sedan.