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Last Auto Account – 2009 Nissan Versa 1.6 Sedan – $9,990 MSRP, 34 mpg Today Nissan announces a new entry-level 2009 Versa Sedan that’s added affordable to both acquirement and own. This car rings in at a abominable $9,990 and achieves an EPA appraisement of 34 mpg on the artery with the 5-speed chiral (33 artery with the 4-speed automatic). The car goes on auction this November 18 at U.S. Nissan ..Last Auto account –

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Today Nissan announces a new entry-level 2009 Versa Sedan that’s added affordable to both acquirement and own. This car rings in at a abominable $9,990 and achieves an EPA appraisement of 34 mpg on the artery with the 5-speed chiral (33 artery with the 4-speed automatic). The car goes on auction this November 18 at U.S. Nissan dealers.

This amount makes the 2009 Nissan Versa 1.6 Sedan the lowest-price new car in the U.S. Says Brian Carolin, chief carnality president, Sales and Marketing of Nissan North America, “it’s our way of adage that in boxy bread-and-butter times, Nissan is actuality to help.”

We admiration at the abridgement of Nissan’s well-designed, ultra-efficient CVT in the Versa 1.6 Sedan. The CVT gives the added able 1.8-liter DOHC four begin in added Versas identical artery breadth (33) to the ratio-challenged 4-speed auto in the Versa 1.6. Surely Nissan engineers could eke out 35+ artery mpg from this new ammunition miser with a little added effort? The 2009 Honda Fit, with its zoomy 1.5-liter four, makes 28/35 EPA ratings even with an automatic, against 26/34 for the Versa 5-speed manual.

They do acknowledgment that this Versa appearance “simplified content,” as able-bodied as that it focuses “squarely on amount and economy.” We achievement this doesn’t beggarly no A/C, abrasion fur headliner, a tinny two-speaker complete system. Still, with 107 hp and a thoroughly avant-garde design, this new Versa ability accomplish a lot of faculty for families who charge a reliable car that will not breach the bank.–Colin Mathews
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