1987 Nissan Bluebird review from Netherlands
"Comfortable, reliable car"
What things have gone wrong with the car?
Exhaust problems twice, first a leak, then the entire thing threatened to come loose resulting in a fairly costly repair(~50 pounds) to get this corrected.
Other than this only some minor problems which are to be expected after driving 15000KM in 6 months with a 15 year old car, total maintenance cost around 200 pounds.
General comments?
The car was built as a luxury car, which is still obvious even though it's 15 years old, despite the rather large engine performance isn't stunning and acceleration past 60mph is fairly slow for this size engine, top speed however is good.
Car is fairly comfortable, seats are nice, lots of room for driver/ passengers and a large boot.
All in all a well built car with just one serious drawback, fuul consumption is fairly high at 1 litre per 11 kilometers, this combined with it using petrol it prompted me to switch to a diesel operated car from the "B" segment.
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| Would you buy another car from this manufacturer? | Yes |
| Year of manufacture | 1987 |
| First year of ownership | 2002 |
| Most recent year of ownership | 2002 |
| Engine and transmission | 2.0 petrol Manual |
| Performance marks | 7 / 10 |
| Reliability marks | 7 / 10 |
| Comfort marks | 8 / 10 |
| Dealer Service marks | |
| Running Costs (higher is cheaper) | 3 / 10 |
| Overall marks (average of all marks) | |
| Distance when acquired | 130000 kilometres |
| Most recent distance | 145000 kilometres |
| Date of Entry | 29th December, 2002 |