1995 Nissan Bluebird SSS review from Australia and New Zealand

This car was very reliable, for the six months I owned my Bluebird it had no mechanical troubles and the engine ran smoothly. However, in general I did not enjoy ownership of this car. I found many features unnecessary and irritating, for example a miniature joystick to electronically alter the mirror orientation and buttons to fold mirrors up. I found the air conditioning, whilst effective removed too much power from the engine. This problem was particularly noticeable at idle.

Aesthetically the exterior of this car recieved no points for style, coming from the shapeless organic school of design.

I found that the engine did not live up to it's SSS sports designation, needing more revs than I expect of a 1.8 L engine to reach decent acceleration. Acceleration between the overtaking speeds of 110 - 130 was especially sluggish and the engine needed 5500 revs to quickly build momentum and overtake safely.

To be fair I did find that this car did have good resale value.