2016 Nissan Sentra First Drive: Off the Beater Path

-With some 4 million sold in the U.S. alone, the Nissan Sentra is the definition of ubiquitous, and for most of its history, it was a simple and indestructible beater—with a huge 93 percent of post-2005 U.S. models still on the road today, according to Nissan. But my how it’s grown, as have its primary competitors, namely the Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic. Unlike the carefree, ride-’em-hard Sentras of yore, today’s version is no longer Nissan’s entry-level model, having ceded that position long ago to the Versa. As such, the Sentra no longer can get away with being basic, so Nissan turned the seventh-generation car into into a mini-Altima when it was introduced for 2013 READ MORE ››

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from Car and Driver Blog http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2016-nissan-sentra-first-drive-review