The Good And The Bad Of A Very Cheap New Car

This particular Sentra was the SR trim, currently the highest grade Nissan offers. As such, it gets a few aesthetic changes like a meaner grille, a little lip spoiler, and a number of other small touches. It’s not meaner in that it offers any performance upgrades over a standard Sentra. It’s meaner like you told it that its favorite sports team wasn’t very good. 

This specific Sentra was fitted with a premium paint job, “Leatherette” power front seats, a sunroof, an eight-speaker Bose sound system, and more charging ports than you would have thought necessary. It was also equipped with a new set of kicks, namely 18-inch black alloy wheels.

I don’t know if I’m going to lose any “street cred” among my speed-demon peers, but the Sentra SR, at least in Monarch Orange, looks pretty good. The proportions are all correct in at least giving it the illusion that it isn’t an economy car. Other people in Southern Pennsylvania must have thought the same, as I saw a number of orange Nissan Sentra SRs driving around during the week.