Looking to buy small daily driver with manual transmission only(rare). Would love to own a Honda Fit but finding a reasonable deal is elusive. Would a Nissan Versa note be a viable and reliable option?
Thanks
small daily driver with manual transmission only
Is there a particular reason why?
Most of those cars are just cheap trashy econoboxes.
Especially in North America, there this market is severely under developed.
Nissan Versa note
Note (pun intended) that the Versa only has a 5 speed manual, this causes horrid fuel economy.
The Versa (equipped with a 1.6L 4 cylinder engine and a 5 speed) - gets only 30 mpg combined!
Basically the economy of a RAV-4 2.5L automatic - without the space, without the power, without any redeeming qualities.
If you get the Versa with a Jatco slush-box CVT that adds 5 mpg (according to the EPA),
And even with that slush-box, it gets just 35 mpg, like a base model Corolla 2.0L
But unlike a Corolla, the Versa is slow, boring, and the CVT is unreliable.
Before the 2019 model year these also scored "Poor" in the Small overlap front test,
It also got only 4/5 stars on the NHTSA in all but one category, so safety on that thing is bad.
(The NHTSA hasn't updated the tests in a while, this is embarrassing)
Look as someone who had and currently has a sub-compact I love,
I do not have bias against sub-compacts.
And I can almost certainly say that a Versa does not seem to be a particularly good idea -
only if you're getting one for DIRT cheap (and I mean dirt cheap, cause it's a bad car).
See Scotty's video reviews.
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