Careful with your Micra at roundabouts!

[MetroMPG]

A K11 Micra that's seen better days.

I'm subscribed to Google email alerts for Micra news to keep up to date with what's going on with the Canadian launch.

But I also get a surprising number of news reports from the UK (where the Micra is apparently simultaneously quite popular and the subject of scorn as a "pensioners car", if Twitter is any indication).

Most of the UK reports are along the lines of this one: Micra traffic accident! There seems to be a wall theme - last week, an unattended Micra rolled down a hill and smacked into a garden stone wall.

One of my favourites was about a guy who used his Micra to bash open the doors of a bank to rob it after hours.

Let this be a warning not to become a Micra Google Alert!

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Link to the roundabout story: http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/mo...rash-1-6026694

[Daox]

Haha, this is true. I'm also signed up for Micra alerts... there seems to be a lot of people driving Micras into a lot of buildings in the UK... I'm not sure what the reason.

[AlphaMicra]

But I also get a surprising number of news reports from the UK (where the Micra is apparently simultaneously quite popular and the subject of scorn as a "pensioners car", if Twitter is any indication).

I don't understand the negative connotation to pensioners. Obviously, a pensioner is a person who needs to be careful with their money and therefore makes careful, wise purchases. Besides, we'll all be so lucky as to become pensioners one day.

[MetroMPG]

True on all points.

The main jab against pensioners & their Micras is they're "rolling roadblocks". That might be the most frequent topic in non-corporate tweets about the Micra.