Faults:

We rented this car for a long weekend. Overall? I didn't love it but didn't hate it either. It was fine. Here's a few thoughts.

1: Reasonably comfortable. The seats were supportive and the position was good too, as in I could easily see around the vehicle with minimum blind spots.

2: It also handled reasonably well too. Decent but not amazing acceleration, fairly responsive steering and suspension

3: The Infotainment system seemed really outdated and would not connect to my new phone even though it was a brand-new car.

4: Surprisingly GOOD fuel economy. I drove it all weekend in a major metro, yet used less than 1/4 tank of gas. I'm guessing at least 35MPG

5: Not a big fan of the CVT transmissions. But those are here to stay.

Would I go out and buy one of these? Probably not. But at the end of the day it seemed like a decent vehicle - albeit one that seems a little long in the tooth.

Faults:

Factory tires bald at 12,000 miles-dealer stated they use tires with less rubber from new than the off the rack versions of the same thing.

Nissan makes windshields out of sugar because all 4 I’ve leased have cracked.

Axle shafts torn and leaking at 15000 miles.

Oil pan is plastic and the drain plug is a common stripping point. Luckily tire choice replaced it or it would have cost me another $600.

Gas mileage when it’s cold out is on par with a 2001 Dodge ram 4x4 crew cab with a 5.9 V8 I used to have. Not kidding.

And oh yeah the little nugget of the motor grenading at 26,000 while I was on the interstate in Friday rush hour traffic. No leaks found but coolant is in cylinders 2 and 3, total replacement in progress.

General Comments:

I have the SV Premium with heated leather seats and steering wheel and panoramic moonroof; it’s comfortable-I took it from Ohio up to Maine and down the east coast to Florida with no complaints. The tech is nice, and on long distances it will get around 37-40 mpg, but in city and cold weather it’s 15-17. The major issues it’s having so early make me advise others against purchasing. I lease so in a few months I’ll be in a RAV4 hybrid.

Faults:

Nothing.

General Comments:

May 11/21 1100 Kms

New car. Still smells new. Really nice leather. Have had it about 3 weeks. It handles well enough. It's not sharp like our previous Mazda CX-5. But perfectly adequate day to day. Going about its business deliberately and securely. Tracks straight and true. Steering unaffected by even the most significant potholes or washboard road.

The seats are really good. Almost as good as our old Volvo, but not quite (would need a little more width and padding). And noticeably better than the CX-5 which was narrow and hard bolstered.

Still getting used to the infotainment system. But seems to work with little fuss. HUD is large and highly visible.

Tires are a surprise. Bridgestone Alenza. What's an Alenza? Even Bridgestone doesn't seem to know, as there is no Alenza tire listed on any Bridgestone website around the world. Still, they ride well, they're quiet, they turn in quick. All good. We'll see what winter brings.

I really like the packaging, the overall exterior look and feel of the interior.

Kudos to my dealer, he bent over backwards to get me into this car.

First full tank of gas yielded, "combined", 28mpg (Imperial), 10 liters/100kms.

Things I have noticed since purchasing and using every day, but were not discovered through test driving.

1. As good as the seats are, my right knee sits dangerously close to the hard dashboard, and is constantly rubbing the console. But so far these concerns do not affect the seat comfort overall.

2. Bose Audio quality? None. Sounds cheap. Like something you'd expect to find in 70's era car. No HD. The Bose engineers failed to give it any spatial or directional imaging at all. Sound appears to come from a single point just behind the windshield where you would have found a single monaural speaker in the 70's.

3. No fuel filler lock.

4. Pearl White paint doesn't appear to be "pearl white paint". Rather it appears that they painted the car in the base white paint then "pearlized" it by tinting the clear coat. I say this because except for the exposed body panels the rest of the car, such as the A, B, and C pillars, door frames and step plates are base white paint.

Generally, it's all good. Time will tell.