LAST AUTO NEWS – NISSAN MICRA
Last Auto account – Nissan Micra Aboriginal spy-shots of new bigger, lighter supermini
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Take a attending at the aboriginal anytime spy shots of the new Micra! Through the abundant disguise, the newcomer reveals the Punto-style headlights and MINI-style grille apparent on aboriginal sketches of the car.
Based on an all new ‘Versatile’ belvedere the new car is bigger than anytime afore but will 50kg lighter than its predecessor. That agency it should be bigger to drive and added efficient.
Improvements appear in the autogenous too, which will not alone be added ample but will aswell affection top superior abstracts and a absolutely congenital dashboard.
Power comes from a newly-developed three-cylinder engine akin to a CVT automated gearbox for bigger efficiency. An alternative stop-start arrangement should accumulate emissions beneath 110g/km and see a acknowledgment of about 60mpg.
Prices are set to be aggressive if the Micra goes on auction in the UK, a lot of acceptable in five-door only, in October 2010.
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LAST AUTO NEWS – NISSAN MICRA
Last Auto account – Nissan Micra Images of new supermini aperture as close reveals added about its baby car, which gets a new belvedere and three-cylinder engine
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The wraps are off Nissan’s Micra! These assets accept been leaked assimilate the internet, about a year advanced of its official UK launch.
Although the sketches that appeared beforehand this month appropriate a sleeker, sportier replacement, it’s bright to see that the new Fiesta battling has been bass down for the showroom. Changes cover a new MINI-style grille and Fiat Punto-like headlights, but it’s beneath alone than the accepted car accident the wheel-at-each-corner attitude and brand curvey shape.
The leaked assets come, coincidentally, as Nissan appear added about the Micra ambit on the eve of the Tokyo Motor Show at a appropriate columnist event.
The new supermini will sit on all-new V belvedere – the V continuing for able – which is lighter and roomier than before. It will spawn a alehouse archetypal (destined for arising markets such as India and China) and an MPV too, replacing the accepted Note in backward 2011.
By managing to afford 50kg over the accepted car, Nissan says the new Micra will be added able and bigger to drive. it will accept added amplitude central too with aloft superior levels, while its physique will be added aerodynamically efficient.
Some engines and gearboxes are acceptable to be agitated over from the accepted car, but Nissan has developed an all-new three-cylinder unit, and a new CVT automated gearbox for the new model. Together with the cogent weight savings, apprehend this archetypal – which is acceptable to get stop-start too – to acknowledgment at atomic 60mpg and afford beneath than 120g/km of CO2.
The new archetypal will not be congenital at Nissan’s Sunderland plant, but instead will be produced at a array of factories in arising markets including Thailand – area it will be aboriginal launched in March 2010 – and India.
This access will advice Nissan to accumulate costs down – so apprehend the new Micra to be actual competitvely priced if it goes on auction here, a lot of acceptable just in five-door anatomy (a three-door has yet to be confirmed) in October 2010.
With the new Micra accessible in added than 150 countries from next year, it should be one of the firm’s best sellers. Nissan estimates added than 1million Micra-based models will be awash anniversary year if assembly is in abounding swing.
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