2017 Nissan Versa Sedan Automatic - The last time we strapped our testing equipment to a Nissan Versa sedan was nearly a half-dozen years ago, when Nissan’s subcompact four-door finished last in a six-car comparison test.
Since then, the Versa underwent a mid-cycle update for the 2015 model year that brought a fresh front-end design, a reworked center stack, and a new three-spoke steering wheel to the pint-size 175.4-inch-long subcompact. Model-year 2017 Versas see a mildly revised center console that includes a new design for the front cupholders, an additional 12-volt outlet, and the relocation of the car’s standard auxiliary input and available USB port to the area ahead of the shift lever.
These improvements address customer complaints, but, regrettably, none does much to elevate the Versa when compared with alternatives such as the Honda Fit and the Chevrolet Sonic. The Nissan’s homely styling carries over, the interior remains a depressing haven of cheap plastics and parts-bin pieces, and its dynamic abilities are no better than before.
The Versa’s sparsely dressed interior reflects the sedan’s $12,875 starting price. Impressively, the least expensive model, the Versa S, includes among its standard equipment Bluetooth phone streaming, steering-wheel-mounted audio controls, power side mirrors, and anti-lock brakes. Also standard is a five-speed manual gearbox, the sole transmission found in the S, which probably disappoints a lot of young “can’t drive stick” shoppers looking for a bargain.
We’d hope it would induce them to learn, but years of evidence now shows that they just spend more for one of the other Versa models—from the $15,015 Versa S Plus to the top-of-the-line $18,165 Versa SL—all of which rely on a standard continuously variable automatic transmission (CVT). Opting for a CVT model also brings cruise control to the Versa’s features list.
No matter the trim, the same 1.6-liter inline-four drives the front wheels. Armed with a meager 109 horsepower and 107 lb-ft of torque, it moved our 2474-pound Versa SV test car with reasonable pep for the class, getting it to 60 mph in 9.2 seconds and through the quarter-mile after 17.1 seconds at 81 mph.
Both times matched the numbers we clocked in a Scion iA (now Toyota Yaris iA) with an automatic transmission, although the iA did click past the quarter-mile at 82 mph. While more power would be appreciated, Nissan’s subcompact sedan easily outruns the Mitsubishi Mirage G4, which needed 12.8 seconds to reach 60 mph but works with only three cylinders against everyone else’s four.
Regardless, accelerating in the Versa is a noisy affair, with 78 decibels of the inline-four’s gritty song entering the cabin at wide-open throttle, six decibels more than we recorded in the automatic iA. Blame the Versa’s CVT, which—despite its best attempts to simulate gearshifts—tends to hold the engine at high revs when heavy throttle is applied.
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