 What is up you guys, I'll go back to another one. If you're new to the channel, I'm Gold Pony at your new car truck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today we're in the brand new 2024 Nissan Kicks 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 today we are in this one because this is one of the most affordable subcompacts available today. More affordable than the Mazda CX-30, the Kia Niro, the Volkswagen TALS by thousands just to name a few. So that's pretty cool. Also very unique design to the Kicks. I've always liked the design because it really looks like nothing else on the road. So ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering feel, 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's as you can imagine, there are a few different trim levels for the 2024 Kicks. First one being the S starting at $20,790, which is a modest $500 bump for the 2023 model year, but still that's dang inexpensive. And that actually is the trim level that we have today. Then you got the SV for $22,650. And lastly, the SR for $23,350. So even the top trim level is pretty darn affordable. But anyways, regardless of trim level that you go with the power plant on the Kicks is going to be the same. Powering the little beast is a 1.6 liter naturally aspirated inline 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 a CVT zero to 60 time coming in at approximately 10.1 seconds which we'll test out here in a little bit but MPG numbers then coming in at 31 in the city 36 on the highway taking regular unleaded fuel. And so before we do any kind of fun acceleration test here in the Kicks, I wanted to mention to you guys the drive mode it is singular. There is a sport driving mode and that drive mode is hidden. It's a horizontal line located actually on the shifter. So just below the shift knob and that is actually going to adjust the throttle response and the shift points giving you a little better acceleration for maybe merging onto the highway or something like that. So now I've got all of that out of the way. What do you got to say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put the Kicks here to the test and let's see how quickly we can get our new 2024 Nissan Kicks here up to speed. All right you guys, so I found my straightaway here went ahead and pressed that line. A little S popped up on the gauges but three, two, one, go. It's okay. It makes a lot of noise. I'll put it that way. Acceleration is not the best but it's not bad actually. Especially when you press that little horizontal button that was pretty cool. And honestly just zipping around city streets here at lower speed limits. It's really nice because it's zippy. I'll put it that way. Not every car is fast but a lot of the cars that aren't fast like the Corolla for example or the Kicks for example, they're zippy. So you just barely press the gas and it kind of just jolts you forward really quick. And that's one of the cool things about naturally aspirated engines as well. In a world where everything is turbocharged these days and you got turbo lag all over the place naturally aspirated engines don't have any of that. So you really have a decent at least quick acceleration. It'll certainly get the job done especially if you're just zipping around city streets. I'll just put it that way. But anyways, to go along with that acceleration as always braking is equally important. So as expected four-wheel ventilated disc brakes do come standard but that 60 is your stopping distance number comes in at 119 feet. That is a sports sedan number you guys. Typically what I always say is anything in the one teens is sports sedan. Anything in the 120s or 130s typically is just a regular sedan or an SUV but anything in the one teens that is dang good. So as far as braking feel goes definitely on the firmer side of things instantly brings you to a stop. So I absolutely love the braking feel in the kicks. Then touching on suspension and handling up front you're gonna get an independent strut type front suspension in the back, torsion beam rear axle also front stabilizer bar to go along with all of that. As far as ride quality goes, it's been fine. It's pretty much as you would expect the kicks to ride like it's not the smoothest ride in the world but it feels like pretty much every other sub compact out there. So it's certainly not bad. I personally wouldn't have any issues there. Then touching on steering feel it is definitely on the loose and goosey side without a doubt it kind of feels like a large SUV in terms of that steering feel. So wouldn't mind it if Nissan firmed that up a little bit but it is to be expected in a vehicle like the kicks but as far as cabin noise goes is we're going approximately 20 miles per hour right now. You do get a little bit of engine noise. I'll say that but the wind noise and the road noise has held it babe pretty darn good. So it's not a luxury vehicle so don't expect anything too mesmerizing but it certainly doesn't do bad but when you really get on the gas it gets loud. I'll just say that the engine noise is pumped into the cabin so you can hear a good bit of that but then touching on visibility I honestly can see perfectly fine out the back. Now keep in mind the second row headrests are a little bigger than average so bigger than what I'm used to seeing at least but having said that this is a sub compact so you really shouldn't have any issues in terms of that visibility but that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review you guys. Let's look ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2024 Nissan kicks. All right so here she is you guys the new 2024 Nissan kicks finished in super black in case you were curious of our exact exterior color name that we had on this one but as always let's go ahead and start with where the kicks is made. Taking a look at the wind first character is the number three indicating that the new kicks is built and assembled in Mexico in case you were curious. But starting up front you will find a V motion front grille finished in chrome for the S and SV trim levels at least the exterior perimeter finished in chrome I'll put it that way but then finished in a dark chrome if you were to go with that SR trim level then. To the sides halogen headlights do come standard on the S and SV trim levels. They do though come with an automatic feature meaning when it starts to get dark in at night the headlights will turn on automatically for you there but also they come with an automatic high beam feature so if you have your high beams on at night and it senses a vehicle coming in the opposite direction it's gonna automatically dim them back to low beams and when that vehicle is gone it's gonna automatically bounce back up to high beams for you there so love that feature. Then if you were to go with that SR trim level you're gonna find LED headlights with LED signature lighting, LED daytime running lights and down below LED fog lights then as well so much brighter illumination for that SR trim level at least but overall that pretty much rounds out the front end let's not go ahead and make our way to the side. All right so now since we are around to the side of the kicks silver roof rails do come standard on the SV black roof rails for the SR trim level. Silver exterior door trim for the SR trim level as well it's kind of found on the side skirts you can kind of see the cut out on our S trim level but it's just finished in matte black on the S of course. Floating roof line towards the back kind of hard to tell with the black exterior but essentially on that C pillar it separates the roof from the rest of the body there. Body color door handles for the SV and SR you guys could probably tell we do have matte black door handles. It's kind of hard to tell on the black exterior but there is a difference there of course. Body colored side mirrors coming with the SV gloss black side mirrors for the SR the S trim level that we have today you're gonna find matte black side mirrors but heated side mirrors coming with the SV and SR LED integrated turret signals for the SR trim level only. Then taking a look down at the wheel setup 16 inch deal wheels with covers coming on our S trim level but then 17 inch aluminum alloys for the SV and SR both of them coming with their own unique design the SR is gonna give you gloss black alloys and the SV is gonna give you silver finished alloys just a little larger design than our 16 inch that we have here today anyways to pretty much rounds out the side profile let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right so now let's do our round two the back of the kicks here body colored shark fin antenna found all the way to the top rear spoiler back there as well just below that rear window wiper you do have some kicks badging back there as well of course and you actually do have a nice kind of body colored rear diffuser that is gonna come on every single trim level across the board and then just to the very bottom they're tucked away underneath the passenger side there you will find a single exhaust outlet so having said that I do believe you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip All right so now since we are around to the back of the kicks when it comes to opening that rear tailgate of course it is a manual tailgate just simply walk up and open it up once opened up cargo capacity comes in at 35.4 cubic feet if that was not enough space there's a 6040 split meaning the rear seats do fall down for a good bit of extra space then if you needed it there are some cargo tie down hooks back there our cargo cover is gonna be optional cargo lighting of course does come standard there's grocery bag hooks back there then if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor you are going to find a spare tire which is my personal preference but then making our way up to the rear legroom that comes in at 33.5 inches so on paper not a ton but for reference I'm even six feet tall this is how much space I have back there but I think one of the best parts about the kicks is you do get dual rear USB charging ports coming standard that's definitely something you don't find standard out there in the competition so you gotta love that however there is no rear ventilation there's no rear center armrest but you do get a passenger side seat back mat pocket in case you needed it but then make our way up to the front seats manually adjustable cloth seats do come standard on all trim levels across board you will find a sport cloth with orange stitching for that SR trim level leatherette seating is gonna be optional on the SR and then heated seats also optional on that SR trim level only overall as far seat comfort goes I will say the back portion of the seats are perfectly fine but the bottom portion of the seats when I first got in this one it was almost like sitting on bleachers at a high school football game it's very firm I'll just put it that way so yeah I'm just gonna put it that way but then take a look at the steering wheel there's tilt and telescoping it is leather wrapped for the SR trim level but all trim levels are gonna get a flat bottom steering wheel so a little sportier of a design if you wanted a heated steering wheel that is gonna be optional on the SR trim level only but then make our way to the startup let me start by showing you guys the key here you do have your Nissan logo at the top lock unlock the remote start that is going to be on the SV and SR trim level so I can show that to you guys today however, it is all keyless entry with a push button start for all trim levels so all I'm going to do here simply put my foot on the brake and press that engine start button located just kind of in front of the shifter there and so once started up as far as the gauges go tachometers on your left speedometers on your right there's a digital display front and center giving you the basics more or less giving you how many miles you have left until you hit empty there is trip A, trip B, outside temperature so it's just the basics I'll just put it that way but then make our way to overall interior quality automatic climate control for the SV and SR trim levels otherwise you're gonna get this manual climate control that I'm showing you guys on this B roll here you got a zero, one, two, three, four in the hot and cold so old school man nothing wrong with that though frameless rear of your mirror with Himmler controls is gonna be an option for $110 if you wanted to go that route just in front of the shifter you got a little bit of storage there there's a 12 volt power outlet aux port and a USB charging port as well surrounding the shifter we'll find a matte black finish which you guys know I grape on in other videos so wouldn't mind it if they finish that in gloss black I'm pretty sure they do actually on the SR trim level but not our S trim level that we have with us here today just behind that a couple cup holders little bit of storage and then within the center armrest probably the least amount of storage I've ever seen in a vehicle but at least they have a center armrest that isn't always the case so I did like seeing that but overall everything is definitely on the basic side of things a lot of hard touch material even the door handle is a black plastic so it's to be expected in a vehicle at around $20,000 I'll just put it that way but in terms of the infotainment screen here you're gonna find a seven inch color touch screen display coming on the S trim level eight inch color touch screen display for the SV and SR trim levels either way you get Bluetooth and audio streaming you still get Android Auto Apple CarPlay either way so if you have a smartphone that has data simply hook it up to the kicks and you have free navigation even on our seven inch screen that we have with us here today that's pretty cool and it looks like everything is finished in Spanish right now actually so that is interesting but anyways you do have your radio information up there as well so six speakers is going to come standard on all trim levels across the board however there's an eight speaker Bose sound system optional for the SR that of course is not the one we have today but having said that let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing today and let's test out our six speaker sound system that we have with us here today I'll be on that clip tonight straight up on that clip tonight I'll be on that straight up I gotta be honest that is a good amount of bass for just a regular six speaker sound system so if you're gonna have a six speaker sound system this is a pretty darn good one I'll just say that Nissan usually does do pretty good job putting a lot of bass in their vehicles even with their basic sound system so good job Nissan you did alright with that one but anyways last thing I wanna mention you guys on the infotainment screen release is when you do put the kicks in reverse you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board there is this 360 degree monitor that is gonna be optional for the SR of course we don't have it with us here today but as always that it's going to lead us into safety and so to start front side side coronary bags do come standard driver and passenger knee airbags as well in the back you're gonna have latch aka lower anchors to tether for children for the rear car seats rear child door locks temperature monitoring system but also coming standard frontal collision warning autonomous emergency braking with pedestrian detection lane departure warning reverse automatic braking a blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert and rear sonar system then as well so overall when it comes to my final thoughts here of the kicks excellent starting price that is really where this one shines compared to all of the competition one of the most inexpensive vehicles out there right now especially with all this inflation that we're getting this is a heck of a deal that's all I'm saying very unique styling as well it really doesn't look like anything else on the road so I like that advanced safety is pretty darn good especially like a blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert typically with the competition you gotta go with the upper trim levels to get that if not it's an option so the fact that it comes standard even on our S trim level today that is pretty darn good I like that as far as room for improvement goes this thing is slow I will say that but the trade off is it's a naturally aspirated four cylinder so the engine at least is gonna be probably super reliable go ahead and check consumer reports to verify that but typically the way it works is naturally aspirated engines are much more reliable than the turbocharged counterparts and this is probably gonna be one of those cases and I got two more things the S trim level at least that we have today it is a bit of a basic interior quality but again the trade off is you get a much lower price so you got what you pay for I suppose in the very last thing is the seats are pretty darn firm I'll just put it that way anyways let me know what you guys think of the kicks in the comment section below and that is about it for this one you guys thank you so much for watching for free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen if you want to see what's coming next on the channel before it gets to YouTube be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're into new car reviews 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