The Nissan Silvia is the name given to the company's long-running line of sport coupes based on the Nissan S platform, intended as a compact, rear-wheel-drive, sporty car offering. Initially associated to the Datsun 1500 and Datsun 1600 coupes, it became widely used with the introduction of the S10 generation in 1975, the first mass-produced Silvia. In Europe and in the US, these vehicles have been marketed as the 200SX and 240SX models. Silvia's have been available over mutliple generations, with the more prominent being the S12 (1984 to 1989), S13 (1989 to 1993*), and the S14 (1994 to 1998). *A single variant of the S13 generation, the 180SX, continued in production overlapping with the S14 until 1998.