juke

So you can get either the all-wheel-drive CVT OR a 6 speed manual. I can live with that.

Oh wait, the 6 speed gives up multilink rear suspension for a torsion beam?

Damn Nissan, so close.

Speaking of CVT, I had the unfortunately opportunity to get an Altima rental car last week. Drove it to NC and back, over 1k miles. I HATE CVT. I will never buy a car that has one of those transmissions in it. Yuck.

mndsm wrote: For whatever reason, it reminds me of this - And I liked those too.

Me too

I think the juke needs to be lowered and then it will look pretty cool.

Then again i also think Rav-4s would be really cool if they were lowered.

And Jeep Cherokees

I also hate CVTs with a flaming passion.

After spending a little time driving a Pontiac Aztek, i think they are actually a really decent vehicle ASIDE from the front end styling. I actually really like the back hatch design and the interior is pretty cool.

Vigo wrote: I also hate CVTs with a flaming passion.

Well that's one thing we agree on.

never drove a cvt, but they make sense on a turbo car.

belteshazzar wrote: never drove a cvt, but they make sense on a turbo car.

In theory...

Actually, they drive a little like a turbo car already, in the sense that the acceleration isn't linear with the throttle input. And there's a surge of acceleration just after you want to STOP accelerating, when the trans starts to stop slipping. A turbo would make that much worse, I would think. For me it was a very disconcerting characteristic, and not something I want in a car I own. And the thing didn't even get any better mileage (31mpg) than my wife's TL-S with a 270 hp V-6. What's the point?

I am unimpressed... Nissan should have put the 1.6T in the Versa...

BTW, how do you know when a Nissan is running?

My wife and I have seriously considered getting one of these as a commuter car...however, upon reading over and over again how small they are, esp. in the rear seat, we knew that it would not work for our 3-member family. So, we just bought a new Honda CR-V instead!

I personally think its ugly. I mean, hide your children, lock the doors, get out the shotgun, and kill it with fire ugly. I think it out-uglies even the Ass-tek. If someone gave me one, I would sell it, for whatever money I could get for it, and run. If I had to chose between driving one and walking, I'd seriously consider investing in a new pair of sneakers.

neckromacr wrote:

Nitroracer wrote: The design is interesting, turbo 1.6 sounds cool, manual trans. I think it is based on the versa/cube platform which has been bashed for it's bland-ness.

It's nice to see one company has bucked the trend of model bloat, why this model has gotten significantly smaller as its gotten older.... wait a minute... Nissan didn't design the first one... Two different companies made crossovers that have the design flow of a train wreck? Unpossible!

Could be worse. You could end up with this taxpayer-sponsored bag of ass.

mndsm wrote: For whatever reason, it reminds me of this - And I liked those too.

Does anyone else think this should be re-released, but rename it "The ZAV"?

I don't get the hate for the design. It's not memorable, but it's not that cringe-worthy. I'd have to drive one first.

Oh, it's memorable alright.

Cold sweats in the middle of the night memorable...

DoctorBlade wrote: I don't get the hate for the design. It's not memorable, but it's not that cringe-worthy. I'd have to drive one first.

It's friggin' HORRIBLE. It looks like they took the Kia Soul's cabin and stuck it onto the bottom half of a VehiCROSS and then jammed bits of rejected Murano styling exercises on the front end. Except the Soul's ugly is redeemed by a very functional cabin, which is destroyed by making this thing into... whatever it is.

Duke wrote: It's friggin' HORRIBLE. It looks like they took the Kia Soul's cabin and stuck it onto the bottom half of a VehiCROSS and then jammed bits of rejected Murano styling exercises on the front end. Then they smashed it.

Fixed.

I think its better looking than an accord crosstour.

white_fly wrote: This:

I like this but I would take some metal/plastic to get rid of the stock turn signals and put a bunch of l.e.d.s in the grill above the headlights to replace them.

I like it. Just built one online and added everything that I thought would make my wife happy... ( )....came out to just over 25K.

I like this but I would take some metal/plastic to get rid of the stock turn signals and put a bunch of l.e.d.s in the grill above the headlights to replace them.

What pray tell would you then do with the giant gaping headlight holes?

Vigo wrote:

I like this but I would take some metal/plastic to get rid of the stock turn signals and put a bunch of l.e.d.s in the grill above the headlights to replace them.

What pray tell would you then do with the giant gaping headlight holes?

leave open for the air intake/snorkel attached to the MASSIVE TURBO .

mrhappy wrote:

white_fly wrote: This:

I like this but I would take some metal/plastic to get rid of the stock turn signals and put a bunch of l.e.d.s in the grill above the headlights to replace them.

Maybe it's because I just dig green wheels, but I think it looks kinda cool like this.

That's a well-shot photo of the black car. The highlight really masks the upper eyes.

When I first saw a picture of one, I immediately thought of the Fiat Multipla.

Which I would call the Fiat Multipass.

SilverFleet wrote: Gross!!!! Yet another car that has the right drivetrain in the wrong body. How hard is it to make an attractive looking car and match a decent drivetrain with it? Nissan (and many other car companies) need to fire their stylists and start over.

I think they (Nissan) took all the good designers and shipped them across the hall to Infiniti, and kept the design-school dropouts and heavy drug users with the Nissan badge.

And OP, that bottle of SmartWater your wife was drinking when she said that.....it was actually straight vodka.