Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Welcome to the family - the Nissan family 😎

Got the Juke NISMO RS from Windward Ford in Kailua.  OTD around $15.3K  Best feature?  Lifetime powertrain/axle warranty with only 30K mile on the odo!  Some slight scratches/damages around but it's all 👍🏻.  Don't mind to spend another $500 or so just to "beautify" it more.  Other than that vehicle was in great shape.  The only downside - and that's Nissan's fault really, was that the vehicle's a CVT/AWD - and that's the only combo one could get.  Manual - what I wanted so that I could teach kids too - was available with FWD only, and I wanted an AWD more (due to rain plus the fact that this vehicle - the NISMO edition - was notorious with torque steer EVEN with the NISMO helical differential!  OTOH, it's also notorious for bad CVT if one abuse it just a bit).  The AWD also came with better suspension and paddle shifter - so one could imagine driving a GT-R (and it looked like a GT-R frankly), but power output was a lot more potent with the manual (4+ hp, around 25+ ft-lb of torque vs CVT).  In fact, that's what my neigbor across the street has - a manual.