Category: Superminis 
Price Range: £7,895 to £13,195
Rounded, naive-looking styling, light controls, build quality.
Rounded, naive-looking styling, ride comfort falls behind current standards.
Love it or loathe it for its looks. As a car, it's unexceptional, but well made and very reliable.
The usual excellent Nissan reliabilty reputation applies here, and the Micra is very unlikely to go wrong. It's also beautifully built, with an open-plan interior design which manages to look less placticky than the more conventional cabins of bigger Nissans.
