1999 Nissan Almera GTi from UK and Ireland - Comments

The interior lights fused after some fiddling.

This car is absolutely unreal, it is spacious, comfortable and has phenomenal performance. Had no trouble blowing away an Audi TT, and any Golf GTI is no threat.

With a few modifications such as an exhaust, induction kit and super chip, this car can get you to 60 MPH in about 6 seconds.

The breaking is unreal, slam on the brakes at 90 mph and you stop in a very short distance indeed, whilst all the time having complete control of direction.

One or two grumbles I do have, are the speed at which the tyres wear out and the amount of attention one gets, from oldies and the younger folk, always asking what sort of car it is...

The best colour to get is the mica blue, although it is quite rare..

One thing to remember is to avoid the cheap ones as they are usually hammered...

The car can also be turbo charged as it shares its engine with the famous Pulsar (Sunny) GTI R.

Blow away an Audi TT? I don't think so!! I owned a '99 Almera GTi after selling my Citroen BX 16v. The BX was the better car for speed and braking. The Almera only has 143bhp, Audi TT 180bhp or 225bhp and the BX16v, 160bhp. Obviously we're talking standard cars, there's no point ranting on about modified versions as each one is different and the main purpose of this site is to enable comparisons of standard cars that you may consider buying. I do think that before anyone starts stating facts & figures they should do some homework.

Hmm doesn't it share it's engine with the Nissan Primera GT? and not the turbo'd Sunny Gti-r.

It actually has the same engine block as the sunny gtir so he was correct. A turbocharger could be added with not much trouble.

So would it be fairly easy to add a turbo then and is it the same engine, but without a turbo.

Unfortunately it's not that straight forward. It shares the same block, but does not have the same internals.