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Our Leaf had its Nissan dealer service this week and I asked if Nissan was going to bring out a Micra ev? Their reply was the 'Micra is coming to its end of production and will be replaced with a new name as well as an ev model. Anyone else heard of this?
 

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Our Leaf had its Nissan dealer service this week and I asked if Nissan was going to bring out a Micra ev? Their reply was the 'Micra is coming to its end of production and will be replaced with a new name as well as an ev model. Anyone else heard of this?
Renault and Nissan have an alliance, sharing parts. The Ariya and Megane E-Tech share the same platform. Renault have been teasing a new 5 for a year or so, which looks fantastic, and the new Micra will likely share the same platform. The 5 is due next year, more news from Nissan should follow.
 

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Wow, I hope they revise the styling. It's clearly based on the Renault 5, but they've made it hideous! It reminds of the Fiat 500L, which tries to fit the funky Fiat 500 styling onto a different body shape that would look much better if it was angular.
 

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I find the article that says that Renault-Nissan Alliance is about to dominate the electric car market in Europe with two good looking superminis. The Renault Zoe and the Nissan Micra EV. The Nissan Micra Gen5 starts a new era at Nissan. From now on every Nissan that gets a new generation will be prepared to have an electric powertrain. Not only this new Micra, but also Juke and QASHQAI... This is very cool cause I'm waiting for this cars, which I can buy with vehicle inspection report. So when Micra’s electric version arrives it will share some components with the Zoe. Probably the motor, inverter, charger and battery. This way the Alliance can finally reduce costs and increase production.
 

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Wow, I hope they revise the styling. It's clearly based on the Renault 5, but they've made it hideous! It reminds of the Fiat 500L, which tries to fit the funky Fiat 500 styling onto a different body shape that would look much better if it was angular.
Looks like a Mini to me. I kind of like it but I reserve judgement until I see one 'in the flesh'.

I was surprised to see recently that the current Micra isn't at all bad, after a number of hideous iterations previously. It looks like a small Leaf. Not that original, but perfectly acceptable.
 

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I was surprised to see recently that the current Micra isn't at all bad, after a number of hideous iterations previously. It looks like a small Leaf. Not that original, but perfectly acceptable.
It's using engines from the mk4 (2012-2020) Renault Clio.
Some say the current Micra was designed with an EV drivetrain to be a smaller Leaf, but Nissan bottled out at the last minute,
 

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It's using engines from the mk4 (2012-2020) Renault Clio
I was judging purely on external looks. I've not driven one. The main problem for the Micra is a different kind of image problem: an association with a certain kind of driver. For some obscure reason, our family refers to them as 'Molehusbands' but for most people the phrase 'Sunday driver' covers it. I don't see them worrying much about which engine they have: they barely touch the accelerator anyway, unless they are in neutral.
 

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I was judging purely on external looks. I've not driven one. The main problem for the Micra is a different kind of image problem: an association with a certain kind of driver. For some obscure reason, our family refers to them as 'Molehusbands' but for most people the phrase 'Sunday driver' covers it. I don't see them worrying much about which engine they have: they barely touch the accelerator anyway, unless they are in neutral.
I had a micra as a hire car when an idiot almost wrote off my AX.
The clutch exploded after a couple of days but if you drive them properly you can make them go quite well.
The older ones were built for half blind people wearing slippers and were never designed to be driven with spirit other than the blood of christ and a slow amble back to snooze next to the radio whilst "deary" burnt the roast.

It had 600 miles on the clock when they duped me into accepting it.

They wanted me to take it back after they had the clutch replaced but when I refused on the basis that the wheel bearings needed replacing and the brakes were dangerously poor they let me keep the big pug for another week.

What a deathtrap. Never been in a micra since but now they are twice the size and might have some on board tech it could be worth a look at an e version.

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I had a micra as a hire car when an idiot almost wrote off my AX.
The clutch exploded after a couple of days but if you drive them properly you can make them go quite well.
The older ones were built for half blind people wearing slippers and were never designed to be driven with spirit other than the blood of christ and a slow amble back to snooze next to the radio whilst "deary" burnt the roast.

It had 600 miles on the clock when they duped me into accepting it.

They wanted me to take it back after they had the clutch replaced but when I refused on the basis that the wheel bearings needed replacing and the brakes were dangerously poor they let me keep the big pug for another week.

What a deathtrap. Never been in a micra since but now they are twice the size and might have some on board tech it could be worth a look at an e version.

Gaz
The electric one will be built on the same platform as the new Renault 5 - compare the Ariya and Megane E-Tech, the new micra should be closer (in quality, not size) to those than the one you drove.
 

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The electric one will be built on the same platform as the new Renault 5 - compare the Ariya and Megane E-Tech, the new micra should be closer (in quality, not size) to those than the one you drove.
Very true, it was decades ago.
I'd rather go for the R5e than the Micra which looks like they just stole design ideas from here and there, bunged them together and thought no bugger would notice how unoriginal it is whilst pretending to be something fresh.

The bits I don't like about the R5e might not even make it to production but the Micra will probably steal more stuff and look crapper.

Just my opinion though, there will be someone who loves it.

Gaz
 
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Very true, it was decades ago.
I'd rather go for the R5e than the Micra which looks like they just stole design ideas from here and there, bunged them together and thought no bugger would notice how unoriginal it is whilst pretending to be something fresh.

The bits I don't like about the R5e might not even make it to production but the Micra will probably steal more stuff and look crapper.

Just my opinion though, there will be someone who loves it.

Gaz
I fully agree - the shape is obviously the same as the Renault 5, with sharp edges and rectangular headlights, yet Nissan have stolen the round head lights from the rounded Fiat 500 and shoehorned them awkwardly in - it reminds me of the way Fiat ruined the sharp square styling of the Panda by trying to add curves to ape the popular 500, and made even worse mistakes trying to force cute curved styling (and the name) designed for a tiny city car onto the much larger 500L, which is hideous.

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Are they gonna do what honda did with the Honda E and charge way too much for it?
I wouldn't have thought so. The Honda e is their only EV, and the Japanese govrenment has been trying to push hydrogen, so they didn't want it to be too popular - so the R&D had to amortised over a smaller fleet, so each car has to pay a higher amount.

The Leaf was released a long time ago, before the government realised they had lots of fossil hydrogen stores which would be stranded if all cars were pure EV. They're starting to come around now, as climate change bites, and around the world fossil bans are being planned in the next decade. Finally Toyota has released a pure EV, which feels a decade late given their experience with the Prius.

NIssan has had difficulties, and the Ariya and new Micra are built on Renault platforms, and Renault aims to start the new 5 under £20,000 - I doubt that will happen, but they'll try, and it can't be much more than the e208 or Fiat 500e.

GIven the styling, and Renault trying to move upmarket, the Micra has to be cheaper than the 5, in much the same way the Corsa is cheaper than the 208 - identical underneath, but with a less desirable brand and arguably worse - certainly less interesting - styling.
 
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