1984 Nissan Sunny LX from UK and Ireland - Comments

Bumper fell of at high speed

exhaust fell of

door buckled in heat

wing mirror works backwards

air con warms the car instead of cools it (some kind of Nissan joke)

Paint lost colour

Rust every where (less rust in an iron mongers)

Interior is miserable, I felt depressed every time I stepped into that car!

The styling has been carried out by a set of monkeys in a bush clearing in Vietnam. The engine to put it lightly sounds like a bag of nails and has absolutely no go. Dipping the clutch is truly the most strenuous task I have ever encountered, I nearly had a hernia! Braking is abysmal it about 5 seconds for the brake to even react and a further 5 seconds to get to full lock!

As for the interior well, oh dear, it totally lacks any character what so ever. The dials are truly ancient and lack any for of useful information, for instance the speedometer told me I was doing 30mph when I was parked up. The oil gauge reads out a few hundred degrees in the winter when I have only just started it. As for the damn awful upholstery, the seats look like they have been made out of recycled cardboard and are as durable as an old leather boot. The gearstick looks like a 19th century golf club made out of iron really I am not joking. As for the name 'sunny' how dare they! They truly know how to insult you, they had the audacity, the shear front, the bare faced cheek to call it a 'sunny', a 'SUNNY'! It should have been called the Nissan 'drizzle', the Nissan 'bank holiday wash out' the Nissan 'grey and rainy with a pinch of hill fog' or better still the Nissan 'hateful'. In a desperate attempt a neighbour tryed and failed to inject a bit of character into the car with a few well aimed dents. The profile front and rear only reminds me of a Victorian toilet block and as for the side profile well they made a complete monkeys breakfast of that didn't they!

Eh, what do you expect from a 22 year old car. Nissan Sunnys are very good reliable cars, and the fact that your Nissan Sunny is still going 22 years on is a testament to Nissan's exellent build quality.

Do you think the problems with the car have anything to do with the fact that it's 19 years old? Any car would have several problems after that amount of time if not kept up to show room standards.

These problems should have been known to you the first time you drove the vehicle. So, why did you buy it?

Someone reads Jeremy Clarkson!!! Summat familiar there. Anyway - after 22 years what the hell do you expect. Probably it performed faultlessly for the first 10 years so things are eventually bound to give up the ghost. As for the other things - well it is a car that is at least 6 generations old, so it's never in a million years going to be as good as a modern car. Would you expect your grandparents to body pop?? No of course not...

I totally agree the car is awful a truly lacks any style. I myself was bought one of those things and within a day I had a local chav take it of me and rally it up the mountain and once hes had done with it burn it out!!! That car was truly awful.

Well written mate, I totally agree myself, the car is a monstrositity-understatement! What I would give to kick the hell into one of those.

The Nissan Sunny 1984 B11 is an aw-some and very reliable machine.. I have been driving for 500 and 600 kilometres at a time on the Bombay Goa road in India and it really runs well giving a good average speed and mileage.. last trip I clocked 13.5 km per litre.. that is much greater than most brand new cars in India.

Yes it is nice, though some times something does go wrong, but then it is 22 years old.. and the good points far overrule the bad points.. yes I am very proud to own the car..

Are you paying Jeremy Clarkson for this usage of his material?