Today seems to be the most back to normal since the surrender of the Fit. Nobody's heads were imperilled just getting into the Versa Note. The only hitch seems to be the weird location of the seatback recline handle (which I figured out but Wendy didn't). The Versa Note screams econobox--it's clattery, small, but drives adequately with an abundance of interior space for its size. Not as much interior volume or cleverness as the Fit, but adequate.
The stereo plays CD's fine. Radio is okay. The whole setup is way more intuitive than the Ford's devil's spawn, Sync. MP4 (AAC) files play from a memory stick or data CD (more than can be said of the older version of Sync). The integration for music from a stick is poor. My memory stick is 64 GB with about 13,000 songs which pretty much overwhelmed the Nissan basic stereo interface. I haven't synced my phone (bluetooth is built in) but I'm assuming it will work for calls, but not streaming audio--we'll see.
Honda's Airbag Recall rep called again this morning to make sure the swap happened and I was happy with the results. I told her basically what I said above--the car is comparable but not my Fit. Just for kicks, I went to Nissan's website to see how Versa Notes can be configured. Turns out the only the base model has a manual transmission, and it has ROLL UP WINDOWS. Wow. No cruise control. No niceties whatsoever. Too bad--the Versa Note might actually be a fun-ish car to drive with a manual tranny. A quick look at Craigslist showed an incredibly steep depreciation as well. 2014 models with less than 20K miles for 37.5 percent depreciation for a year and a half old car. Ouch. That's Mercedes and BMW territory :-)
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