 What is up you guys? I'll go back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I am Gold Penning at the new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube and today we are in the brand new 2024 Nissan Versa, courtesy of younger Nissan in Frederick, Maryland for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So we are in this one today because this one starts at right around $16,000, which is more or less unheard of these days. So that's pretty amazing. Manual transmission is actually still available for the Versa as well. Also very rare there. And this is probably the nicest Versa that I have ever been in just personally. So I actually am impressed right from the get go here. So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering fuel, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. It says, you can imagine there are a few different trim levels for the 2024 Versa. First one being the S starting at $16,290. Wow, SV for $19,580 being the trim level we are in today. And the SR starting at $20,300. But regardless of trim level that you go with, the power plant on the Versa is going to be the same. Powering the little beast is a 1.6 liter naturally aspirated in line four cylinder, putting out 122 horsepower at 6,300 RPM, 114 pound feet of torque coming in at 4,000 RPM. That power being sent to the front wheels through your choice of either a five speed manual, that's come standard by the way for the S trim level only, or a CVT, zero to 60 ton coming in at approximately 9.5 seconds with MPG numbers coming in at 27 in the city, 35 on the highway for the manual, 32 city, 40 then on the highway for the CVT, either way taking regular unleaded fuel. And so before we do any kind of fun acceleration test here in the Versa, one in the bench to you guys, the drive mode. Yes, singular. There is a sport driving mode. It is hidden. It is a horizontal line located on the shifter itself basically, but adjusting things like the shift points and the throttle response. So now I haven't got all of that out of the way. What do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straight away. Let's put the Versa here to the test and let's see how quickly we can get our new 2024 Versa here in sport mode up to speed. All right, we're just merging now. Yo, baby. Okay, it's slow. I'm just gonna be honest. This is not the quickest thing in the world. So it's one of those things though, like the more you drive your car, the more they get used to it. So it's kind of like driving a Chevy Camaro or a Nissan 370Z with horrible visibility, but all the owners will tell you, you get used to it. So it's kind of like that. You learn to know your car a little better and you learn how to merge onto the highway, things like that, but it's quicker than a Mitsubishi Mirage. I'll put it that way about three seconds, but still not the quickest thing in the world. But anyways, it should be reliable because it's not turbocharged. I do like that. To go along with that acceleration as always, braking is equally important. So upfront, you will find 10 inch ventilated front discs and the back eight inch rear drum brakes. As far as that 60 zero stopping distance goes, that comes in at 124 feet. As far as braking feel goes, it bites, man. It bites. Like you don't think there's rear drum brakes because this thing instantly brings you to a stop. And that 124 foot number, that's plenty respectable. It's pretty much on par for the course. Anything in the one teens is a sports sedan. Anything in the 130s is an SUV. So 124 feet, that's like your average sedan. So absolutely nothing wrong there. Then touching on suspension and handling up front, you're gonna get an independent strut type front suspension in the back, torsion beam, rear suspension and front stabilizer bar then as well. As far as ride quality goes, you do tend to feel a little bit more of the road in a subcompact cars like the Versa. But having said that, my short little test drive here today at least, it's nothing that would personally bother me. I'll just put it that way. As far as steering feel goes, it does tend to lean a little bit on the looser side of things. Kind of reminiscent of like a Toyota Corolla basically. So wouldn't mind it if they firmed up or give the weight to the steering a little bit more heaviness, but it is to be expected in a car like this. I'll just put it that way. As far as cabin noise goes, we're going 38 miles per hour right now. Let you guys be the judge through the road mic here to get a little bit of road noise. But again, it's nothing that would personally bother me. Then touching on rear visibility, it's excellent. I can see perfectly fine out the back. So when it comes to visibility in the Versa, 100% not going to have any issues. But that pretty much runs out the performance segment of this review, you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2024 Nissan Versa. All right, so here she is, you guys. The new 2024 Nissan Versa finished in Aspen white tri-coat. In case you were curious of our exact exterior color name that we had on this one here today. As always, let's go ahead and start where the Versa is made, taking a look at the bin. First character is the number three, indicating that the Nissan Versa is built and assembled in Mexico, in case you were curious. But starting up front here, Chrome V motion front grille will come standard on the S and SV trim levels. Dark Chrome V motion front grille coming standard on the SR. SR is going to be the sportier trim level of the bunch, of course. Halogen headlights for the S and SV trims. That's what you guys are looking at. Then LED headlights for the SR with LED daytime running lights. Do you get the automatic feature though with the SV and SR? So when it starts to get dark at night, these headlights will automatically turn on for you. So one less thing you got to worry about there, very convenient feature there, but best illumination at night is going to come with that SR trim, of course. Fog lights then are going to be available. You guys can see the cutouts down below there. Of course they aren't coming standard on anything, but they are available if you wanted them. But that pretty much rounds out the front end. I liked the refresh when they did that last year. Definitely looks good in my opinion. Makes it more of a wider look in the front. So more aggressive look, but they're pretty much rounds out the front end. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the side. In some analysis we are around to the side of the Versa. Black windows surrounds will come standard. You do have that floating roof line on the C pillar there. Differentiating the roof from the rest of the body. Power adjustable side mirrors do come standard. They're going to be with a matte black finish for the S trim level, gloss black for the SR and the body colored for the SV, and then also heated for the SR trim level as well. Black door handles will come standard on that S trim level. However, with the SV and SR they are going to be finished in body colored door handles. So I do like that. Take a look down at the wheel setup then. 15 inch steel wheels with covers for that S trim. 16 inch aluminum alloys for the SV and then 17 inch aluminum alloys for the SR. But that pretty much rounds out the side profile. So now go ahead and make our way to the back. In some analysis we are around to the back of the Versa. All the way to the top you're going to find a body colored shark fin antenna. Just below that you're going to find a body colored rear spoiler for the SR trim level, only hence the reason we do not have it with us here today. But one of the cool things that the Versa does and the Central does as well actually, but you do get a body colored rear diffuser down below there. I think that looks dang good in my personal opinion. So well done Nissan for that. However, I do wish they would have included LED tail lights on the Versa. So they are of course halogen bulbs. So not as quite as bright as the LEDs of course, but just below it all you will find a single exhaust outlet tucked away underneath on the passenger side there. So having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next here. As always, here is that exhaust clip. I need someone else since we are around to the back of this one. When it comes to opening that rear trunk there is going to be a key slot for the S trim level. However, for the SV and SR there is a button on the key fob. There's also a button kind of on the driver side floor here as well. But once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 14.7 cubic feet for that S trim level. However, you do get a little bit more space with the SV and SR coming in at 15 cubic feet. Even if that was not enough space, there is a 60-40 split only for the SV and SR trims. That S trim level, the rear seats are not going to fall down. But the SV and SR, the rear seats do fall down for quite a bit of extra space then if you needed it. There is some cargo lighting back there of course. And then if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor, we're going to find a spare tire with quite a bit of space surrounding that spare tire. So you could probably put an ice scraper in there or something if you wanted to. But did want to also mention we have a couple of grocery bag hooks back there as well. Don't want to overlook that because that's something you typically find in SVs but very rarely cars, especially sub-compact cars like the Versa. So that was pretty cool. But so then make your way up to the relegroom that is going to come in at 31 inches even for reference, I mean even six feet tall. This is how much space I had back there. There's going to be a single USB charging port that does come standard on the Versa. No rear ventilation unfortunately and no rear center armrest either. But then make your way up to the front seats manually adjustable claw seating will come standard for all trim levels across the board. However, if you were to go with the SV you're going to get a premium cloth and then the sport cloth is going to be found on the SR. So slightly different textures, slightly different color configurations but overall as far as seat comfort goes it was actually not that bad. I didn't have any issues on my short little test drive here today. I do want to also mention get heated front seats for the SR trim level only. And I do like the kind of contrast between the blue and the black that we have on our particular setup that we have with us here today. And there's more of those blue accents and I'll touch on that when we get to the interior quality. But now let's go ahead and take a look at the steering wheel. It is tilt and telescoping and it's going to be leather wrapped for the SR trim level. Otherwise, of course wrapped in urethane and it is a flat bottom actually for all trim levels across the board as well. So that was pretty cool. Then make your way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key. It does have a nice heft to it. So definitely a fan of the feel to the key. Got your Nissan logo on the top. Lock unlock and the button to pop the rear trunk there as well. But the SR trim level is going to add a remote start and keyless entry with a push button start which we also coincidentally have today on our SV trim level. So all I'm going to do here is simply put my front of the brake and press that engine start button located just in front of the shifter. And so once started up these gauges are actually not too bad. So the digital portion is going to be found on the left and that is customizable. Speedometer is on your right but the digital portion is going to give you things like the time of the day how many miles you have left to hit empty. There's your outside temperature of course trip A trip B fuel information and all of that is changeable by using the steering wheel mounted controls found on the left side of the steering wheel there. So quite a bit of information you can play around with up there. So I actually don't mind the gauges at all but now let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality. Automatic climate control coming standard on the SR trim level wireless phone charger for the SV and SR. I love that that's just in front of the shifter and it's rubberized bottom so your phone doesn't slide around either. So that's very rare in this segment the subcompact segment. So big fan of seeing that. And actually they didn't do that bad of a job at this price point. Let me tell you why. You get a bunch of gloss black finishes surrounding the shifter and a lot of the competition will leave that a matte gray or a matte black plastic. So well done Nissan for doing that. Get a couple of cup holders behind the shifter within the center arm esters a little bit of storage there is a USB charging port in there as well. But I also like the kind of carbon fiber look kind of finishes that you find on the top of the shifter as well as on the doors. They didn't have to do that but they did they could have left it like a matte black plastic or a matte gray plastic like a lot of the competition does but they put a texturized design to it but my favorite part to go along with the blue seats is the blue touches found just above the passenger side glove box and surrounding the infotainment screen which we'll get to here in a second but that just makes the whole interior pop and I love the way it ties together with the seats like I said so that was my favorite part when I first sat in this one it looked absolutely amazing not to mention the chrome door handles as well a lot of the competition even in the compact car segment will leave that a matte gray or a matte black but Nissan chose to finish it in chrome so they definitely did a very good job considering the price point here of the Versa I'm just saying but now let's go ahead and take a look at the infotainment screen like I said, seven inch color touchscreen display coming standard with the S and SV trims and then an eight inch color touchscreen display for the SR either way you get Bluetooth and audio streaming Android Auto Apple CarPlay though for the SV and SR trim levels only so the S trim is not gonna get Android Auto Apple CarPlay unfortunately so keep that in mind of course you can check out your radio information up there as well so when it comes to the sound systems there are two of them you're gonna find a four speaker sound system for the S and SV trims and then a six speaker sound system for the SR so having said that we do have the four speaker sound system with us here today so let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing this morning and let's test out the clarity of this one Hey, you can tell it's a four speaker sound system actually Bayus was a little bit more than I expected that was also FM radio so it wasn't even serious XM or linked with Bluetooth or anything like that so I would imagine the clarity would be a lot better if those circumstances were present but again FM radio, the bass I could tell was okay the clarity four speakers anyway, last thing I wanna mention to you guys on the infotainment screen is when you do put the Versa in reverse you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board for all trim levels letting you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead us into safety and so front side, side current airbags do come standard you do get driver and passenger knee airbags at front as well you don't always get that that's pretty cool in the back you're gonna have latch AKA lower anchors that tether your children for the rear car seats, rear child door locks tire pressure monitoring system but also coming standard forward collision warning autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian detection lane departure warning, high beam assist and reverse automatic braking as well that all comes standard on the S trim level that is nuts anyways, overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of the Sentra this is an extremely affordable vehicle maybe the most affordable vehicle here in the US starting at just over $16,000 that is incredible with all the inflation we've been seeing lately so well done Nissan for pulling that off great fuel economy as well getting 40 miles per gallon you really can't argue with that and believe it or not I actually love the interior quality of the Versa here I can't believe I'm saying that but at this price point I'm not sure it gets much better I mean these blue accents look absolutely amazing I'm so used to seeing black and gray and tan and that's it and sometimes red for Toyota but very rarely do I see this nice ocean blue which looks absolutely amazing on the seats just above the passenger side glove box like I said and I absolutely love it I think that probably made the interior for me so Nissan keep doing that as far as room for improvement goes it's slow but it is faster than the Mitsubishi Mirage if that means anything so I mean it's something you get used to but it is slow but the other thing I still believe today in this day and age LEDs should be standard for all cars out there so and that's something that you can get standard on a base Corolla or a base Civic or a base Elantra as well I know there's a compact and this is a sub compact but still I think it's doable at minimum LED tail lights I'm just saying but anyways let me know what you guys think of the Versa in the comment section below that is about it for this one you guys thank you so much for watching feel free to follow me on social media if you want to see different spy shots of the cars I'm filming before they actually get to YouTube be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're in a new car reviews cause that is what we do here on this channel after all do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and I will see you guys all in the next video stay gold my hide rages around like an ocean in my 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