While waiting for my Micra, my dealership was generous in offering me a loaner, which was an Altima with the CVT. Anyone who believes an auto trans is faster in accelerating than a CVT either has a terribly underpowered engine, or is out to lunch. In the Altima, it would take me to the sweet spot in the engine, and just keep me there until I realized the excessive velocity I was propelling myself at. Without gear shifts, it's easy to lose track of how fast you're going until traffic travelling in the same direction starts to feel like oncoming traffic.
In our culture obsessed with absurd excess, the Nissan Micra is my counterculture car of choice.
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View my fuel log 2015 Micra SV manual: 6.4 L/100 km ... 44.3 mpg (Imp) ... 15.7 km/L ... 36.9 mpg (US) ...