Brace yourselves for the inevitable slate of reviews criticizing mushy steering, an uninspired ride and myriad other complaints that most buyers won't give a lick about. Nissan's next C-segment hatch, the Pulsar, will apparently not be "sporty", and Nissan is just fine with that.
According to AutoExpress, Nissan's Andy Palmer said that
"I'm not looking for a car that is ultimately very very sporty…I'm looking for something that can transition a customer from a Qashqai to a hatchback. It needs the same DNA, but we want to keep ex-Qahsqai buyers in the Nissan family. It has to have a familiar design and handling."
Palmer noted that the new hatch "doesn't transmit impulses back into the car" and that "the steering is quite light". Sounds like a recipe for enthusiast disaster, right? Well, given the smashing success of the Qashqai (which basically invented the small CUV segment in Europe), it's easy to see why Nissan is going down this road.
from The Truth About Cars http://ift.tt/Jh8LjA
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