So, I’m a girl and I’m a rev head and I say this car is good value for money. It’s not perfect without the curtain airbags but it’s really not a bad design inside and out with the tiny budget.
It’s actually nice that someone in the car market has thought of us women.

From the little handy storage ideas to the colour pink and regardless of cost-cutting (which is a given in this category) at least it’s put together by the Japanese. Thank you Nissan!

Why would guys who call themselves FASTHONDA and FALCODORE think that this car was in any way designed to appeal to them. I rest my case.

Something to consider, they could start doing run-out deals any time soon.

My advice, buy a demo year or old and you can save $4/5k, they get hammered on the 2nd hand market.

Remember they are made in UK, not Japan

These past years I think it’s been always the same for new small cars, let we say Yaris, Mazda 2, Barina to Peugeot etc. I must say I love to buy a Peugeot 206 because of all the safety features, size and durability (maybe) of it and as you could see it’s such a good looking car!

THEN… I found out about this car. I must admit it puts me off first about the look of the car, but once you get to look at it’s features – exterior to interior (it’s just great!) for me it’s my dream car in a very great price!

When I look at the car again… I thought it’s not really that bad at all!! Honestly it’s stand from the crowd of being always the same… very unique look and user friendly (especially for me that I’m about to get my P’s)! This car suite what I need for my life style.

I MUST GET IT!

In the city I would challenge anyone to suggest any car is any better. Its zippy, manoverable, has good visibility all around, is visible, has good steering and handling and is easy to park.

Those that whinge about the seat belts in the back…. how many people actually drive these cars with more than two people in them?

I personally don’t really like the styling but to be honest I don’t give a sh!t about styling.

Paul Doubya, do you have any idea what you’re talking about? The Micra has fantastic reliability! It rates highly in reliability tests and if you go to user review websites, hardly anybody has a bad thing to say about them. Renault components are actually pretty high quality. The latest models have been doing really well in reliability stakes.

Why does everybody have such a problem with this car? OK, you may not like the looks, can’t say I’m a fan either but it’s a good car and a good alternative. For a seven year old model, it’s doing pretty well considering that it doesn’t feel that dated and safety is pretty good when you buy the City Collection model. It also has something that so fewer Japanese cars have: character. The Mazda 2 is just dull, the Yaris really feels mass produced and the Swift was never class leader. The Micra deserves sales.
I could understand peoples hatred of it if it was expensive, bad quality, terrible to drive and completely impractical but the fact is that it’s cheap, pretty good quality, good to drive considering it’s a 1.4 with a four speed auto and it has massive amounts of space. It’s a good car, just because it’s ugly doesn’t mean one should discount it as terrible and one of the worst thing to ever happen to the motoring world.