Old reliable makes quantum leap

The Nissan Micra has always had a reputation as the favoured car of older buyers, but that’s all set to change

Nissan has transformed the Micra into a fashionable, youthful car that taps straight into the modern-day personalisation zeitgeist

Entirely altering the focus of an existing product can simultaneously be extremely challenging and also risky for a company. On the one hand, the business is trying to do something wholly unfamiliar to its historic procedures and on the other, by changing tack markedly it could potentially alienate a sturdy and loyal fan base.

However, Nissan is attempting to enact a seismic shift in the outlook of its Micra supermini with this fifth-generation ...