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MARCHING ORDERS.(News)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
Nissan has already announced plans to bring its cute, cuddly little Cube to the U.S. market to do battle with the slightly edgier Scion xB and the coming Honda Fit. Small is beautiful now. Though no official arrival date has been released, we expect the Cube to get here with the current model's redesign in 2006. Specifically, that will likely be a variation of the Cube called the Cube Cubic or Cube3, the stretched version of Nissan's B-class Cube econobox with a third row of seats.
That's well and good, but here's another twist: The Nissan March is also a B-class car, and the March is tons of fun to drive. It would make sense to bring it in, especially if it was marketed together with the Cube aimed at capturing the youth market (where in the Scion universe have we heard this before?).
Speculation on this product plan for Nissan arose during a recent drive of the March. Nissan gathered together a phalanx of its global cars and trucks for the world press to evaluate, from NISMO-tuned Sentras to big-box vans called Elgrand. Our favorite was the March.
We drove two March versions. The first was a torque-happy, 1.5-liter four-cylinder turbodiesel European Micra, the name March uses in Europe. The Nissan product planner from France would not stop talking about what a great car it is, and how it seats four comfortably, and how the 136 lb-ft of torque is phenomenal. All ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, MARCHING ORDERS.(News)