Nissan Sylphy 2.0

Yesterday was a really nice day, Me and my in laws, went down to Jalan Ipoh, Nissan show room to check out on the Nissan Sentra by right, and why where they looking at the Sentra, See my dad in law is looking for a new car, and they happen to find out that Nissan is giving a huge discount on the 2009 Nissan Sentra Sport model, about RM11k. Never know about the details. But i do know about a large discount on the Sentra Sport 1.6L that is about to go extinct very soon. By right it was my dad in law to buy the car, but the eldest son took the chance to grab it, well i personally think it is a good buy, only thing with Sentra, my dad owns one, a 1.8L leather interior, its really nice, but a little cramp in the rear seat. On the other hand, i took the chance to look at a couple of cars available in the show room.

since the day of its launch, i never got the chance to test drive a Sylphy 2.0, probably because of the new hot car everyone wants want, so at that time, no one bothered to let a young guy like me to take the car for a ride, now things are a little more cool down so well, they have the urge to sell and plus someone was buying a car, and thats where i took the chance to test drive this model which i longed to take it down on the road, ok, firstly talking about interior, it is super spacious, comparing to Sentra, and with its 500L boot capacity, i think it is a wonderful kind of family sedan, most importantly at 2.0L it will cost you arround RM106,000.00 after discount, price point between Honda and Toyota, Nissan probably is much cheaper, of course a cheaper car means you get less goodies that comes with it. The Singapore version would come with a Electric Seat with programmable function and also memory seating position for different keys, i presume thats the meaning from reading the website, and it has keyless Go entry, just like the 1.8L and 1.6L Latio and Latio Sport, means no need to fumble with keys when starting the engine and entering the car, just press buttons. A lot of premium cars has this kind of feature now adays,


looks wise, i leave it to you to judge, i personally dont think it look good, kind of old, and lady like car, but lets talk about the interior which i feel is much more comfortable than a lot of this C segment sedan in the market, firstly the space, it is huge, very huge, with my driving seat postion adjusted, the rear person presumebly my size could seat with no problem crossing legs, and reading news paper with ease, feels so much like a tau keh, seats are comfortable with nice fabric, leather is an option, add another RM2000.00. I felt that the finishing was perfect, with no sign of cheap plastics, everything feels very solid, nice to touch and feels it could last, like a premium car,
downside is, no steering wheel buttons to adjust audio control, 100k car no such feature ? No Xenon light, the Latio 1.8L has xenon headlight, and the center deck, hmm, king of weird design with a large hole in it, the hand brake or parking brake are nice, they are like on the padel floor, this gives more room design for the center deck, i personally feel, if a woman drives this car, ok nice and family like, but a man, the entire design concept of this car i think it was probably for a mid age lady who loves shopping, marketing and fetching children to and frow to school and tution. firstly is the gear, cool CVT system with Xtronic gear drive, no gear change, you can call it infinity number of gear, i never drove any car that is like this, it feels smooth all the way, according to the sales person, the car will feel acceleration all the way to 180km/h with no feeling of lag in gear change, it is drive by wire, and power on demand, some marketing terms i presume, let you figure it out, im no good at this, but still learning,
Consumption presumebly is at 16KM/L which is i think ok , normal, not very shining but just like any other car, althought i didnt get to drive on a highway, which i was looking forward to, but city driving this car is nice, you will feel it is very light, like drving a very luxiorious car, plus my mom in law didnt complain about the rear part after seating in the Sentra. Power on the low RPM, is good, responsive, press accelerator the car moves, no lag or drag, with 5 person on board, it just moves,

Conclusion is, if you like comfortable interior, nice finishing touch, no plastic feeling, and luxiourous feeling, you can consider this one, for its price point, i think they did it right, to segment their self properly in price point, altough they took out the goodies, but overall if you dont want those keyless thing and electronic seats, this car is fine, just for driving,
If you are looking at power, looks,features, control, and a lot of goodies, leave this out, test the other brands, then only if you cannot decide and thought of saving some money for future, consider this, or if you are buying for your wife to drive this is nice, she wont complain. i presume, and so does your kids, it easy to drive large boot space and very comfortable interior,

plus point : price, great interior finishing, Xtronic drive ( arguable), interior quality finishing, city driving, EBD, ABS, dual Airbag, super spacious boot and interior, parking brek, electric power steering, drive by wire,

downside : no traction control, No button control on steering, no triptronic shift, keyless go, Xenon lights, exterior looks( arguable), power on upper RPM, probably would not shine like Honda or Toyota, funny looking center console,