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goobster  ·  1601 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: December 4, 2019

I still have - and will always have - an inexplicable and undying love for the Juke.

It's my kind of weird.





kleinbl00  ·  1601 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I almost wrapped my head around one. There were two problems for me:

1) Between the turbo and the CVT, it feels like a driving simulation, not a car. The connection between inputs and vehicular responses feels a lot like flying a Predator UAV over satellite link.

2) The fact that it's a Versa with a tall body means that it isn't particularly off-road-able, which, for a car that's gonna front like that, is a damn shame. I recognize that 99% of all things with AWD will never so much as see dirt but I really think that if Nissan did a version of the Juke that had some modifiable suspension bits they would have captured a whole bunch of the PunisherPants market. Examples exist but they're so much work.

goobster  ·  1601 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So it really is another PT Cruiser...

Bummer. I'd hoped there was "more" underneath. So that Nismo could do something amazing and make an Abarth-Fiat-esque modification to the basic Juke... for... I dunno... the Baja 1000, or something! :-)

ilex  ·  1601 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The turbo versions are pretty fun to zip around in!