The Last Car Made Before Nissan Became Crap

rev up your engines today I'm going to talk about one of the last really good cars that Nissan May 2001 Nissan Sentra se-r this car was made before Renault started runing Nissan yeah they had bought the company but they hadn't really changed anything yeah and in this case the SE R stands for more than just putting these redline bucket racing seats it's not what was under the hood SE R had a special engine in it for 15 grand to get over 200 horsepower made it to a 6-speed standard transmission this baby is quick been a relatively small car to get off the line and because they're four-door so you can put a few people in it now yeah time has been kind of this car Nissan paint jobs weren't so hot back in the day but this baby got one hundred and fifty two thousand miles on it it's still going strong and you have to add in the fact that the customer who owns this drives like a maniac he's keeping this as a toy because he just bought a brand new Civic type-r he was thinking about replacing this with a nissan or infiniti till I talked him out of it and said the way you drive get a Civic type-r he loves the car he'll probably have it the decades like he's had this thing but back in the day this 2001 was a deal for that price decent suspension solid six-speed tranny and a four-cylinder engine that's still got good gas mileage if you didn't drive like a maniac the centerpiece of this car the engine doesn't have one of those flimsy rubber timing belts like a lot of cars did back in those days it's got a timing chain their get up will as you can see here this has got the brace so you don't get any body flex when you're cornering let's face it if you saw this thing today going down a road looking like this Nissan Sentra you know I think oh what a clunker till it goes blowing by you it still has get up and go this car bypassing Nissan's horrendous 4-cylinder automatic transmissions those jatco Junkers in favor of a standard that's extremely reliable and the 2.5 liter 4 cylinder engine they didn't have head gasket problems like all the modern centers have realize that historically Nissan's been a good engine building company they make the first real reliable zippy sports cars the two forties the two sixties it's a shame that they merged with Renault and started to make a bunch of crap I got customers with modern sentra and altimas are horrible car as they age I mean you can buy one brand new them to put 50-60 thousand miles on is probably okay but it's not gonna hold off for four decades and 150,000 miles like this thing is and still be running strong without working on the engine or the transmission or the electronics and sure it's like any modern car plastic wrap the handles broken but if you reach in it got still work a little car like this with front wheel discs rear wheel disc and a tight suspension systems they're still fun to drive and if it were my car I take off the se-r emblem and just leave the sentra and people would think oh look at that crappy Nissan Sentra they could blow right by them now for those who know about cars the car that was this cheap but in a six-speed manual transmission hooked up to a limited slip differential means this baby can handle corners fast you don't find cars in this price range in this size then have a limited slip differential it is a killer on twisty roads it's so sad that they ruined the cars after they merged with Renault because they had a good thing going here a four-door car that you can fit a reason a lot of people in but still have serious driving experience are ones that have rear seats that you can fit tiny little people in their babies and baby seats but full-grown adults are gonna be groaning after a little while on those back seats and a suspension system is 16 percent stiffer than the stock it really corners well but doesn't ride that now you know as far as I'm concerned was one of the last good Nissan's that were built when they are making these r series sentras they had a good thing going it's a shame they let it go because just try finding a zippy little car like this for $15,000 today it's an impossibility even if you pay eight or ten thousand dollars more doesn't have the quality that this old thing hand what the heck with a little loving car and a lot of paint you could bring this thing back to New blowing people off the road with Nissan Sentra, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell

Channel: Scotty Kilmer

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Length: 5min 17sec (317 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 10 2019