Took my 2009 cr vrs (Dsg) in for a major service today (along with cambelt change....but lets not get into that) and have had the pleasure of driving a Nissan Juke for the day.

 

It's a 2013 116ps 1.6 petrol with CVT.

 

 

And it's absolutely terrible!

 

 

The interior is a disgrace, hard retro plastics everywhere. Full of gadgets but badly positioned switchgear and satnav screen makes most of them useless IMO. 

The CVT gearbox in combination with the 1.6 non-turbo petrol is a complete horror-show. Appears to be unable to accelerate at all beyond 50mph. I kept double checking the handbrake to make sure it wasn't partially on. Put your foot down, and nothing happens except from the CVT forcing an awful beehive noise out of the poor engine revved to 6000 rpm.

 

The worst thing about it is the price new - just over 17k!! That's only a few pence less than the blackline was last year!!

 

My point is this: There appears to be a fair few mk II facelift VRS owners on this forum considering changing to a newer model...

 

..Do yourself a favour and go a test drive one of these and you'll realise just how lucky we are already!!

 

I'm so glad I bought a Blackline.

I had a brand new manual 1.6 Duke for a month at the beginning of the year on hire and confirm your findings it was pants and very thirsty too!

I got an S-Type Jag as a courtesy last week. An old un I thought it was awful and dated but after a couple of days I grew to quite like it. Been looking at XJs since.

 

Don't like Jukes though. SWMBOs pal has one, they like it but then they came from an Insignia.

I had a brand new manual 1.6 Duke for a month at the beginning of the year on hire and confirm your findings it was pants and very thirsty too!

 

 

Really?

 

The mrs had one for a year and it refused to  do less than 40mpg even when i was utilising the revs. the only thing i could fault the car for was its tiny boot and the fact it needs a 6th gear(this was what made her get rid I we had bought a diesel we would probably still have it now). Ours was a tekna with leather, the interior was fine and the quality of the leather much better than i have seen from skoda.

 

I agree with the op about the cvt gearbox, initialy we were going to get a 4x4 1.6 turbo but after driving one the cvt box was just awful, it seemed like it took 3 seconds to decide what it was going to do every time you put your foot down.

But the yeti has a 6th gear

I nearly bought a juke in 2011.The interior was awfull cheap and tacky it was a top of the range model. I bought a Fabian 1.2tsi dsg elegance instead half the price twice as good ,I now have a Blackline still cheaper and far far better in all ways than a juke. The only nissan4x4 that was any good was the Xtrail.

I nearly bought a juke in 2011.The interior was awfull cheap and tacky it was a top of the range model. I bought a Fabian 1.2tsi dsg elegance instead half the price twice as good ,I now have a Blackline still cheaper and far far better in all ways than a juke. The only nissan4x4 that was any good was the Xtrail.

 

 

I would bet that less than 1% of the jukes sold are actually 4x4. You can only get 4x4 in 1.6 turbo petrol with cvt transmission. They have shot themselves in the foot by not making a diesel version with 4x4, manual and the 130hp diesel engine they now fit in the quasthingy.