RE: Driven: Nissan Juke-R

[SystemParanoia]

heres a blank cheque, fill in anything you want, i must have one !!

[kainedog]

it looks hards as nails , goes like stink and is unlike anything else out there! love it

[la grange]

Am sorry,but as for looks it has fallen from the top of the ugly tree and taken a severe beating by every branch on the way down!
Good bit of marketing for juke and Nissan fans.But am sure after a day or two in garage,memories of a drunken rendevous would surface.
Now the admirable GTR has an ugly sister/brother to take shine of it.

Edited by la grange on Wednesday 18th January 20:37

[The Hypno-Toad]

Hopefully they'll take it to the Festival this year. I bet it will look totally bonkers going up the hill.

[StuttgartJem]

Love it, now all we need is Merc to follow suit, AMG V8 in an A Class anyone ?

[rm89]

StuttgartJem said:

Love it, now all we need is Merc to follow suit, AMG V8 in an A Class anyone ?

Would a B-Class do?

http://www.autocar.co.uk/CarReviews/FirstDrives/Me...

[elementad]

Great fun machine and can see why they've done it. Hope it attracts further buyers for them especially with the talk of nismo versions etc.

Much better than a television advert by getting their hands dirty and frankensteining some performance monster

[tommy vercetti]

A ridiculous car. Couldn't love it more!

[RemyMartin]

In a word....WANT

Although I like the standard Juke anyway....

[VIPERLESS]

Pointless, ugly and without imagination...only a multimillionaire Lottery winner (and hence without any concept of value.....easy come easy go)would buy it.
The standard model has the looks of a bag of smashed aholes but this "thing" takes it a step further.

[spud989]

Needs to be in production and sub 50k. It'd be awesome!

[kambites]

spud989 said:

Needs to be in production and sub 50k. It'd be awesome!

My money would be on twice that if it ever gets built at all.

[Johnnytheboy]

kambites said:

spud989 said:

Needs to be in production and sub 50k. It'd be awesome!

My money would be on twice that if it ever gets built at all.

It won't.

But it may be a market tester for a realistically hot Juke, let's say 300 bhp? Would anyone buy one of those at a reasonable price?

[kambites]

Johnnytheboy said:

It won't.

But it may be a market tester for a realistically hot Juke, let's say 300 bhp? Would anyone buy one of those at a reasonable price?

The Juke is basically a Golf/Focus competitor, right? In which case they're basically going to be competing with the Golf R, Focus RS, etc. if they do that. Sounds reasonable but nowhere near as interesting.

[Johnnytheboy]

kambites said:

Johnnytheboy said:

It won't.

But it may be a market tester for a realistically hot Juke, let's say 300 bhp? Would anyone buy one of those at a reasonable price?

The Juke is basically a Golf/Focus competitor, right? In which case they're basically going to be competing with the Golf R, Focus RS, etc. if they do that. Sounds reasonable but nowhere near as interesting.

I think you've got to look at it like that mental Golf W12 VW made a few years back.

"Look what we can do! Now go and buy a Golf R."

It's got a load of petrolheads talking about the Juke as a possible performance car. If a hot-but-feasible Juke is then released, said petrolheads may not snort with such unanimous derison.

(and yes, I'd prefer the GTR-based one too )

[sinbaddio]

Robin - pass the keys......

[jellison]

Johnnytheboy said:

I like it. Typically, the Autocar forum are all slating it.

There's an Autocar forum!!

[kingstondc5]

Johnnytheboy said:

It won't.

But it may be a market tester for a realistically hot Juke, let's say 300 bhp? Would anyone buy one of those at a reasonable price?

Isnt there a 'hot' Juke coming out shortly?

[georgetuk]

Bizarre looking and great, want!

[Johnnytheboy]

jellison said:

Johnnytheboy said:

I like it. Typically, the Autocar forum are all slating it.

There's an Autocar forum!!

http://www.autocar.co.uk/Forums/default.aspx

It's bad.