Hello everyone, I have been lurking for the past few months and finally decided to join your community.
My girlfriend and I had to get rid of our aging/head gasket chewing/rusty '03 Subaru Outback as well as get out of a way too expensive lease on an always broken/water pump serial killer '13 MINI Cooper Clubman. At first, we had no idea what cars to get. We wanted a fun car and a regular car, so we were looking at the Fiesta ST, Golf GTI, Subaru WRX, ect. One day, we changed our minds drastically and decided we wanted an electric car.
The Nissan Leaf, being the only fully electric car that doesn't have a 3-5 months waiting list, was our pick and we went to our local Nissan dealer to test drive one and get a quote. At that point, we haven't even considered the Micra. It's only when we mentioned to our saleswoman that we needed a 2nd car but didn't have a huge budget that she suggested we give the Micra a try. Long story short, we ended up getting a 2015 Leaf SV and a 2015 Micra SV and got rid of our aging and/or unreliable cars.
We've had the Micra (a.k.a. Judy) for 4 months now and the best way to describe it is "surprisingly good" (in french we say that we are "agréablement surpris"). We never thought we would've liked it that much! It's got everything we need (A/C, cruise control, manual transmission, cheap on gas, iPhone connectivity) for a price that I couldn't even believe and the fact that it is such a light car, the performance are adequate (similar to the MINI) and the car is quite "tossable" around corners.
Anyway, that's my story. And now, some pictures!
Pictures from the day we bought it:
A cool shot that I took in Mirabel:
Judy and GLaDOS in the driveway: