Nissan Kicks

This is the catalogue record of the Nissan Kicks, one of 318 models Nissan has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2016. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Nissan Kicks properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Chevrolet Chevrolet Bolt, the Chevrolet Chevrolet Camaro, the Ferrari Ferrari 488 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Nissan Kicks reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.5 L Nissan HR engine#HR15DE / HR15DE Straight-four engine / I4 / 1.6 L Nissan HR engine#HR16DE / HR16DE I4 / Petrol engine / Petrol Hybrid ele; kerb weight is recorded at 1109 - / 1340 - (e-Power); drive goes through 5-speed Manual transmission / manual / X-Tronic Continuously variable transmission / CVT / Single speed constant ratio (e-Power); the layout is designer =. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Nissan story

Within Nissan's own catalogue the Nissan Kicks sits alongside the Nissan N6, the Nissan N7, the Nissan NX8, the DeltaWing. The record names the Nissan Juke#F15 / Nissan Juke (F15) (Americas & Asia) / Nissan Livina#first / Nissan Livina C-Gear/X-Gear (China & Taiwan) as its predecessor and the Nissan Kait (Brazil) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to predecessor = Nissan Juke#F15 / Nissan Juke (F15) (Americas & Asia) / Nissan Livina#first / Nissan Livina C-Gear/X-Gear (China & Taiwan). Assembly is recorded at Brazil: Resende, Rio de Janeiro / Mexico: Aguascalientes City / Aguascalientes (Nissan Mexicana, A1) / China: Guangzhou (Dongfeng Motor Corporation / Dongfeng Nissan) / Taiwan: Mia.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Nissan Kicks was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.