Straight Outta Sunderland

Enright adjusts to life with less than a litre

- Andy Enright

NISSAN JUKE Ti Price as tested: $37,219

This month: 397km @ 9.0L/100km

AS WELCOMES GO, this one was a doozy. New Nissan Juke delivered, start the ignition and a fault flashes up on the dial pack. The radio cranks up playing ‘What Have I Done To Deserve This?’ by the Pet Shop Boys. I can tell that this relationship is probably going to be eventful. The fault – a glitch in the stop/ start system – clears itself after a run around the block and a reboot of the car. Prior to driving the new Juke, I wasn’t sure I’d get on with one. I knew that Byron Mathioudakis would bag me mercilessly after we’d done likewise to him when he proclaimed, not entirely without merit, that the first Juke was one of the most influential cars of the 2010s.

After attending the local launch, I was more encouraged. Although I did have a guilty penchant for the old 160kW Juke Nismo RS, I’d never been able to shake the impression that it was, at best, a 0.75 trick pony.