Nissan Built Cult Cars in a Factory That Never Existed

In the late 1980s, Nissan — one of the biggest manufacturers on Earth — started building its most wanted cars by hand, in tiny numbered runs, selling them by national lottery, and never advertising a single one. The program behind them was called the "Pike Factory." There was just one problem: no factory by that name ever existed. This is the story of Japan's strangest production experiment — the design contest that started it, the cars that sold out in months, the snail van that tested the limit, and the fictional place that produced very real cult objects. Subscribe for more forgotten Japanese machines — there's another one every week.