The little Versa’s big comeback confirmed | Car News

It was an open solution driving the scenes of the Canadian vehicle business, and now it is no for a longer time a solution at all. We figured out at the Toronto vehicle show nowadays that the Nissan Versa is earning a comeback soon after a several yr absent from the Canadian market.  

With the departure of the Micra, the Japanese automaker located by itself with out a agent in the subcompact section. Looking at the base of customers loyal to that trigger, Nissan felt it could not truly abandon the niche and just hope that Micra customers would migrate to the new and more substantial Sentra.

And so a new Versa enters phase remaining. And even though the vehicle belongs to the sub-compact group, the design that really should debut this summer season is a roomy car or truck. Cargo space, for case in point, is 425 litres – very generous for this group.  

The cabin is just as open in experience, specifically in the back again. The presentation is also better than in the previous you can expect to recall Nissan failed experience with the Versa sedan that was launched in 2011. The hatchback variant, the Observe, had a much more thriving job.

And kudos to Nissan for integrating the multimedia method monitor into the dashboard. Are we witnessing a return to aesthetic intelligence in cabin layout? This substantially prettier strategy provides a touch of course to the presentation.

Nissan’s new entry-level vehicle shares its system with the Kicks SUV, and in simple fact the wheelbases of the two versions are similar. The Versa also gets the Kicks’ 122-hp, one.6L 4-cylinder engine as effectively as its Consistently Variable Transmission (CVT). Observe that the CVT is an choice, as the base version is geared up with a 5-velocity guide transmission. That CVT features with simulated gears, and we can only hope the recipe is tastier this time all-around, for the reason that currently the CVTs in procedure in Nissan automobiles are continue to resolutely noisy and uncomfortable. Fingers crossed.

When it comes to security, the Versa will also stand out with a host of options. In simple fact, all the aspects of the Nissan Safety Shield 360 offer will be readily available. We continue to await aspects on just how the products supplying will be put with each other, but we assume to be reporting on that and on pricing a tiny prior to the design debuts this summer season.