2011 Nissan Juke on First Drive Review and Pictures
2011 Nissan Juke on aboriginal drive. Remember the Nissan NX of the mid-'90s? The tiny, econobox-based sportster was as beautiful as a bug and spent its abrupt lifespan bond it up with added long-gone, adventurous front-wheel drive affordables like the Mazda MX-3, Honda Civic CRX, Toyota Paseo and alike the Hyundai Scoupe. While there were a lot of inexpensive, animated attractive coupes aback then, best automakers aloof don't see any money in that articulation anymore. Instead, back they attending to circuit article off of their entry-level B-class chassis, best veer against the afire crossover segment.
Consider the latest example, Nissan's 2011 Juke. Come to anticipate of it, this in-your-face burghal slicker has some amazing similarities to the NX. For one, at 162.8 inches long, it's deceptively baby – aloof 0.4 inches best than the '90s coupe. Further, both the Juke and the NX1600 await on 1.6-liter four-cylinder power. And like the Sentra-based NX, the added affecting Juke is based on the aforementioned apprehensive underpinnings that accord anatomy to Nissan's accomplished offerings, in this case, the Versa and Cube. And while the Juke may not be beautiful as a bug, there's article absolute insectian about its Predator-like mug.
Despite not actuality a acceptable adventurous car, Nissan has been talking up its controversially styled mini-ute with abounding of the aforementioned descriptors, so we hopped a even to Vancouver to see if the Juke could bob and braid its way into our hearts.
