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Nissan Micra C + C, 2007 Convertible Review

Technical characteristics of the Nissan Micra Sport 1.6 Euro:
Length 3815 mm x Width 1660 mm x Height 1375 mm.
Wheel base: 3035 mm.
Drive: on the front wheels
Engine: 1.6-liter, 4-cylinder with vertically ordinary cylinder arrangement, DOHC gas distribution mechanism, developed power 81 kW (110 hp) at 6000 rpm, the largest torque 150 nm (15.6 kg / m) at 4400 rpm.
Transmission: 4-speed automatic transmission
 
ATTENTION MICRA!
You know, it seems to me that many of those who have recently had to browse the advertising prospectus dedicated to the Nissan March family of the family, in his very end, they involuntarily exclaimed: And this is what it is!?. And all because it is there, on the last page there are alarm pictures of a pretty baby cabriolet. It is possible that someone may even think that this is some kind of mistake that such a car does not happen! I have a hurry to reassure our Japanese drivers it really and March, and not march, because .. However, let's all in order! So, this convertible is nothing more than a compartment based on the MARCH, manufactured for Europe, and, accordingly, the name of Micra. But only not just Micra, but Micra C + C, that is, a compartment with a top. So, I ask to love and complain!
 
What is usually the story of how the test trip was held and what she left after the impression, I think everyone knows. Well, of course, since the tested car looked and, most importantly, what he was similar. I will not break the usual order of the presentation of the material, and I will offer everyone to look at the photos made by me. See if you do not take into account the special design of the front headlights, which are also taken into the chrome frame, then everything else that is ahead - it is one to one car Micra. In fact, what does an ordinary European driver waiting from their newly acquired car? First, so that the car can print individuality, but, secondly, and this is perhaps the most important thing - so that the car be recognizable. At the moment, the MICRA family machine in Europe at the peak of popularity. Then why, tell me, something in her appearance change the cardinal way? So, with the front part of the car C + C, it seems, we figured out the front and recognizable, and not deprived of some originality. Well at least with the back everything turned out completely differently. You yourself go on the side and see: the characteristic line, that is, the border between the bottom and top of the body goes smoothly back and suddenly times, makes a small jump, giving a sink a few, I would say, spicy look. Yes, but how cute and zadorny! Or here is the red beautiful (sorry for the involuntary punishment!) Body, - he has such a shining view, nor give, neither take the red sun! By the way, the test trip took place against the backdrop of the Runnese landscape of the ORCO terrain, however, because of the presence of this open car it seemed that it was not spring at all, but the most than summer.
Well, oh well, time to open the door and see what inside the cabin. With some trepidation, I start tidy myself: so, on decorative door panels and on the finishing cloth seats embedded rhombid pattern, it's good. What else? Neury white color of instrument pointers and a rotating air conditioner regulator This also, it seems, is made with taste. Little things, but nice!, Well, and so on. Although such increased attention to small, in general, items, it is quite natural - too much of random and not necessarily friendly eyes will consider and evaluate this interior, and then judge what is the machine of the Nissan brand! In fact, to have an opening salon is the same as putting yourself to the universal review. Although on the other hand, the Basic March car, he also has a lot of little things in the cabin, who look very thumbs up, so what, in essence, the difference, outdoor salon or closed!? In Europe, the car, which refers to the segment in, is simply supposed to have such a licked to the smallest interior, that's all! Otherwise there is nothing to do in the market. Well, in the end, when this Micra C + C gets to us in Japan, we say: Well, it is necessary, such a baby, and looked, how cool looks from the inside!.
To be in the open sky, it takes 22 seconds
And here I am sitting in the driver's seat and move it still in closed mode. That is, I have a roof over your head, however, it is all such a glass and transparent, which is as if it is not at all. Yes, - I thought, - in Europe with her long winter every ray of the Sun, must be on gold weight. So any device that allows you to contact him as often as possible and more perceived extremely positive. Well, good, but where is the main attraction of this car?, I ask myself, and start looking for a cherished switch that should be here on the middle console. I find it right away, I press the button and see how the roof begins to fold and go to the rear trunk. 22 seconds and everything, no roof! After that, though it took another 7 seconds to remove the side windows. And, nevertheless, the fact remains a fact: a few seconds, and I'm already driving a cabriolet, outdoors!
Of course, the car is not so big, but the tough top, it is somewhere you need to hide. And where to hide, as soon as not in the rear trunk! That is why for baggage there is not so much space there is a fact. It is good that the bottom side of the sideline has a rectangular shape, so, although there are many things in the trunk and does not fit, but the suitcase with things for two to make a small trip to the weekend why not!
Meanwhile, although the windshield hung over me, the fresh air gradually began to feel. Well, it means it's time to trim from the scene. I took the massive steering wheel and moved the transmission control lever to D. position and the car began accelerated. Immediately I want to note that in Europe the MICRA C + C can be not only with automatic, but also with a 5-speed manual speed box. When I went out to the square, the first thing struck me is silence, despite the fact that the speed was decent, and in the idea of \u200b\u200bthe motor should more noisily remind of its existence. However, no. It turns out that the equipment of this small car is 1.6 liters of the same HR series, as the machine class above (I mean Nissan Tiida) turned out to be the right step. The usual car March is produced with a 1.4 liter engine, which is weaker by 22 horsepower. As they say, feel the difference! Yes, and the torque in the engine C + c is more than 25 Nm and is 153 nm (15, 6 kg / m), which, you see, too, a lot. Motors of the HR series are distinguished not only by silent, but also smoothness in work, it is known to everyone. But in the Micra C + C car, more suspension is felt, and less guys. In a word, you can relax.
Feel in European!
If you follow the European criteria for evaluating the suspension, then it is more tightened, the one is better. Now we take and carry a car with such a Europeanized suspension on our Japanese roads, on which the jokes of the road cover are encountered. Naturally, each junction that met on my way, the suspension was played out clearly, and the body continued to be kept smoothly, as if nothing had happened, only the bottom had one, you know whether the Coc Coca, the Podokok. As for the traction characteristics, Turnpike known to all its steepness, I remember, I remember the March car even the highest category (15RX model) worked with some shortness lacked torque, and his weight is 210 kg more than the MICRA car . And here, behind the wheel of C + C, you do not feel any tension: the car as it was confident, so, without driving the tempo, and flew to the top. With a more or less cool turn, the car, of course, rolls, not without it, but at the same time with this wheels as if sticking to asphalt. The wheels are equipped with rubber size 175/65 / R15, which according to modern rules is considered too high, but these wheels also make their tangible contribution to improving the comfort component in the assessment of the machine.
In those areas of the route, which in terms of their indicators and remotely, but reminded European autobahn, the car demonstrated such stability, such a skirmish is strictly kept a straight trajectory, which remained only to be surprised. Although on the other hand, that here is strange, if, as already mentioned, the car has a true European stepper, and in Europe it is believed that even a small car should walk at high speed, which is called, in Struck. So let it - the car entering the segment in, but in sustainability he will not refuse, that's for sure. Of course, this sustainability may be, and not as in compact machines of German production, but in Japanese standards quite at the level. It is considered that the combination is high speed + open top of the cabin is not always good because, allegedly, in the cabin blows. But in this particular car, thanks to a skillful installed air reflector with this negative, in general, the phenomenon, to some extent, it is possible to fight. Although, emphasized, this struggle is not to the detriment of the feeling of openness and, I would say, the pain, that is, for what, in fact, people and sit behind the handlebar of the cabriolet.
There are, however, and something that causes me regret. I mean how the driver feels the brake. No, in a functional plan everything, it seems, in order. The problem lies in a completely different plane. In particular, you put on the pedal, and it turns out to be so soft and digestible, which you do not know how to contact her. But if you sit behind the wheel with a relatively powerful engine and, accordingly, high high speed potential, it is desirable to feel the rigidity and elasticity under the leg, which, it should be noted, is more associated with reliability and instantaneous action. And one more thing: if you put an automatic transmission on the car, then let it have another excess transmission. After all, what happens: when you move at high speed on the highway, and you need to get a sharp acceleration from the machine to overtake someone, the feeling appears that the machine includes not the transmission. True, it is impossible to discount the fact that the concept is high speed for Japan and the essence of different things for Europe. Well, I agree that at high-speed Japanese roads, the speed is not really that. So it is likely that it is possible to do with a simple reconfiguration of the transmission control system, which, nevertheless, must be done necessarily before allowing this actually passage car to Japanese roads.
When to wait for it and at what price?
The plans contain that imports to Japan Micra C + C cars will begin in July of this year. However, the main thing is not when, most importantly, for how much, right? Let's say that the car I tried was collected for England and sold there at a price of 15 thousand 150 pounds (this is something about 3 million 440 thousand yen, the truth together with the value added tax). The amount is almost twice as bigger than the price of the Japanese March, which, of course, is expensive. You can see, and at what price we can buy a similar car from among future competitors. Here, for example, the car Peugeot 206 CC with 1.6 liters engine. It costs us 2 million 680 thousand, which, by the way, is also a lot. It remains only to hope that in England the model described by me is sold for as much as it agrees to buy it, and not because its production really costs such an amount. Then you can expect that in Japan it can be used noticeably cheaper.
There are, however, the considerations of a different order. In fact, no matter how cool, and the automobile coupe (let it be march) and Coupe Convertible (C + C) are not quite comparable things. After all, the car with the opening top takes precisely to substitute the face with fresh air, so that, inhaling it, feel free, like a bird, well, etc. And this fresh air, and everything that you should, you can let into the salon without fuss and guys, with one click some kind of switch! I am sure that there are many such drivers for which such a prospect will be attractive. And even the closest, which, of course, is present in any salon, if it belongs to the segment B, it can also be not so useless. In fact, closely closely, but also the distance between you sitting behind the wheel, and those who can be on the seat near, is also reduced significantly, right? And if it is also to imagine that the car moves along the night city, and the road is simply soaked by traffic lights, which are so strive to stop you on the red light. After all, while you are standing and waiting, you can have time to open if it became unbearably hot, or, on the contrary, close, if the chillure, and you want more heat (including sincere). Adult drivers will surely find a lot of pleasure for which you can overpay. Of course, as you grow, something has to refuse, such is life. But it was when it becomes an adult, and an understanding comes to you that there is that, it's time to choose your own style. Or, if you wish, choose what is not ashamed to show others.
 
 

 

A source: Carview.co.jp.