Test Drive Review of Nissan Sunny Diesel XV

Guys, Yesterday managed to took TD of Diesel Sunny in Shahwar Nissan Bangalore.
Few points and observations below:

Legends
TD = Test Drive
OMG = Oh My God :)

Dealer Experience (Shahwar Nissan Bangalore)
1. Sales rep Kiran was well-mannered and explained all the things very well.

2. Vehicle was provided at very less waiting time. We hardly finished our tea before that itself we were ready for TD.

3. The staff is trained and courteous.

Vehicle Experience (Nissan Sunny Diesel XV):
1. The car was neat and clean.

2. It is fully combination of PPP (Power, Performance and Price). Though it was a short test drive on the busy M.G Road and St. Marks road, but I was impressed.
Frequent gear shift was not required, although we were 4+1(child) loaded in the caaar. It was able to pull at the speed on 20-25kmph in 3rd gear without any hassle.

3. Clutch pedal was little hard, not smooth like Manza quadrajet. (My personal opinion, it may differ to others)

4. The gear shift was ok, as I couldn't take long TD and no frequent gear shift was done, so can't comment much on that. (Again my personal opinion)

5. Coming to engine noise; it’s diesel, so you can't expect it to be silent like Honda city.

6. Noise in the cabin is pretty audible in 2nd and 3rd gear, less or more likely in Swift, Swift Dzire, Fiesta Classic and Vento

7. The ride was comfortable with 4 loaded, suspension worked well. But, it could be little more on softer side. But again, then probably it will scrap its belly on speed breakers.

8. The fine vision meters are pretty good to look at while driving at day time. XL has no fine vision meters. It's old style (but can live with that too).

9. Didn't get any speedbraker on the TD way (OMG, Bangalore is famous of back breaking speedbreaker), so couldn't perform Belly test :)

10. I was able to find comfortable driving position easily (as i am 6'3", so it becomes hard for me to fit in any 2nd car on road like Fluidic, city, Ascent)
but this was not the case in Sunny, was able to fit with enough leg and head room in front. Headroom for me in rear was not that sufficient as my head was about to touch roof with millimeters of difference :)

11. The interior was Grayish like we use to see in Alto or any other low end cars. (Nissan should have worked on that). But it looks quite airy while we sit inside and no piss-off factor involved while driving.

12. A/C with automatic climate control worked well.

13. Stereo is ok kind of, I was feeling vibrations on door side claddings (because speakers were fitted at foot level on the doors)

14. Overall, my mother and wifey liked the acres of rear seat leg room :)

15. The steering was light to drive at low speeds, since it's diesel, it was not lighter like petrol sunny. But response from steering was good.

It was a nice experience in overall and I see no deal breakers because of engine noise and speedometer dials or grayish interiors. (Personal opinion)
If we drive petrol vehicle with glass down to get the mileage, Sunny diesel has less cabin noise than that coming from outside 😝