2 October 2010
Rarely does a week pass without a car being launched that its maker claims either invents a market segment or drops neatly into a burgeoning one. Sometimes the claims are nonsense; sometimes – as here – they have more foundation.
The Note, Nissan says, is a B+segment car which, in layman’s terms, means it competes with a bunch of inflated superminis at inflated supermini prices. There were just two such cars in 1998, but Nissan reckons there are now 12, including the Honda Jazz, Vauxhall...Read the full article
2 October 2010
It's no good comparing the Note to such cars as the Punto or 207.The Note is all about space. You would be amazed at how much stuff you can cram into one, especially with the passenger seat fully reclined, the flexi-boards removed and the rear seats tipped forward to their fullest extent. I have recently taken delivery of a new 1.5dci N-Tec, and have to say that it looks and drives far better than I expected.Even the wife likes it, and she has hated every car we have owned in the last 26 years (the G40 Polo and Toyota Supra getting top marks for scaring her rigid...I loved those motors). It looks stunning in black with the alloys and privacy glass. My sons and their mates think it's 'well moody, innit'. The white ones look pretty cool too, far better than the weird metallic colours in the Note range. All in all, a great car.I would avoid the base model though.
18 August 2009
Did you look at the date of this test before commenting lol?
But anyway yeah they are actually alright these, I drove a well specced one and thought it was fine.
6 November 2009
and the 2009 facelift models are far far better than the mk1/mk2 version that was tested here.