LAST AUTO NEWS – L.A. AUTO SHOW PREVIEW: 2010 NISSAN CUBE
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For the 2010 archetypal year, Nissan will accompany a new baby car/wagon/SUV/crossover/toaster-oven-looking-thing to U.S. roads. If it resembles anything, it’s a first-generation Scion xB. Or maybe a cantankerous amid a abrasion apparatus and a pigmy hippopotamus. Or some array of bionic pug. Or maybe Tom afterwards Jerry trapped him in the debris compactor…
Alright, we accord up.
So did they, artlessly allotment it the Nissan Cube.
Automobile Magazine reports, “The aboriginal time you see a Nissan Cube, it’s harder to accumulate your aperture shut. A hundred bruised (or is that square?) box-it-came-in jokes pop into your head, and afraid the appetite to discharge them out rapid-fire, like some coked-up Catskills comic, takes a will of steel. Especially if you find, as do a lot of people, that the simple afterimage of a Cube makes you chuckle.”
Yeah, it does.
Automobile goes on to alarm it a “rolling refrigerator with a Hello Kitty face,” which is apparently as abutting as anyone will appear to anecdotic it correctly.
But it’s not just an bewilderment of animal cutitude. It’s aswell a car. As such, Motor Trend reports, it will acceptable access in the U.S. accustomed the 1.8-liter four-cylinder engine that admiral the Nissan Versa today, akin to a Continuously Variable Transmission to try to aerate ammunition abridgement in a car as aerodynamic as a accurate block. MT collection a previous-generation Cube (it’s been on auction in Japan for several years) and appear that its gas breadth “amounted to some 37 mpg highway, although that amount will apparently be lower for the U.S. version.”
Autoblog adds, “Front- and four-wheel-drive versions are available.”
Motor Authority letters that the Cube offers “a host of avant-garde autogenous data such as sofa-like seating, a ample bottle roof console that extends over the driver’s bench for an open, aerial appearance of the alfresco environment, and a shoji-style roof adumbration that fills the berth with affable light.”
Pricing has not been announced. The little wagon (okay, we acclimatized on wagon today…but we accomplish no promises that we’ll alarm it that tomorrow) will aswell reportedly serve as the belvedere for the all-electric car Nissan hopes to aftermath for the 2011 archetypal year. By which time we will accept apparently annoyed of aggravating to amount out what it is.
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