From zero to minor hero and back again – in almost 35 years of trying, the Nissan Micra hasn’t always merited mention in the same breath as the big hitters in the supermini sector.
There was a European Car of the Year win in ’93, and the early-noughties iteration was a genuine highlight. But the last version, clearly built for the Asian market and foisted upon us Europeans rather than designed and engineered here like Nissan’s most successful cars, was so sub-par we barely wasted our breath on it at all. Except to occasionally mutter about how much better the Fiesta and Fabia were.
But this time Nissan is serious about superminis. And given the runaway success of the Juke and Qashqai, two cars that revolutionised the bread and butter family market, you’d credit Nissan circa 2017 with a good nose for what people want.
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