Me tooI feel the need to test drive one, just to confirm.
Oh crap, cover blown
Me tooI feel the need to test drive one, just to confirm.
The Corsa was about as comfortable as being sodomised.
On the subject of horrible cars... someone I know has a Juke for sale - I had a nosey out of interest... with the colours it was in from the outside it didn't look too bad if you made a concerted effort to ignore certain areas/not look at it from certain angles... but looking inside yikes! what on earth were they thinking. The central console colours and styling literally made me want to throw up.
The Juke is definitely up there with the worst.
My next door neighbours Mrs has had 5.
Last one being a nismo RS.
The Juke is definitely up there with the worst.
My next door neighbours Mrs has had 5.
Last one being a nismo RS.
I've had a couple of lifts in a Juke but it was dark so I never truly appreciated how awful it was inside. I've not spent much time in the newer models but the older Juke and Qashqai were horrific body roll wise.
I am genuinely perplexed when someone tries to tell me that Nissan are a good make. The 2014 Qashqai I owned used to have a doorcard that would flex when you put the window up or down. You could give the doorcard a gentle push and the entire thing would just bend. Putting the windows down to clear rain would not clear even large drops of water from the outside. These are just the little things I use to determine if a car has good build quality.
I have been a passenger in a Qashqai it felt cramped and very average.
I find Nissan very mixed - the Tekna trim level tends to be fairly good if a bit minimalistic, but anything below that really isn't great and the build quality varies a lot. On the other hand I've found their dealers for the most part a bit better than most main dealers though I did have a less than professional experience with one of them the other day (albeit the circumstances weren't ideal for both parties but sometimes that is the way things go) - fortunately not the ones I use more often.
The rubber in trim and around the windows and the stuff that should clear the side windows, etc. doesn't tend to be that great in general not just in functionality but in far too many cases it ages 2-4x quicker than in other brands I have experience of - I've seen 10 year old VWs with better door rubber condition than 2-3 year old Nissans.
I was surprised by the cramped feeling in the back - I was thinking of buying a Pulsar for a runabout and I swear it felt roomier despite IIRC being based off the same platform and stuff like the Tiguan again feels much roomier despite being fairly similar vehicle.
Most on here haven't even driven a Fiesta
Which reminds me, getting older cars to start in winter was a bit of a lost art as they didn't have fuel injection. Pull out the choke, pump the pedal a few times, clutch in and then turn they key and balance the throttle and choke until all 4 cylinders were firing. If you got it wrong and flooded the engine, then often a bump start down a nearby hill was required.r.
Another vote for the Ford Ka.