Assessment of the first meeting with our small car Toyota My Dinh originally came from the California-based Nissan Design International, we mean bunch director Jerry Hirshberg's nailed it. The new Sentra appears exactly as much as Fielding Mellish at a council of nerds. It blends into the small car scene as if it's been around for years, not just a few months.
Although déjà vu, the new Sentra is really new - new tires, new automatic gearbox, engine and new standards. The size of the chassis is all but unchanged - wheelbase, for example, remained at 99.8 inches - but the foundation (HS) belongs to a new global family support Nissans other in other markets. sharing platform is far from new, but this is the first time Nissan has created one of the chameleon texture.
Although the wheelbase is the same, the new Sentra Toyota My Dinh is 6.5 inches longer, 1.0 inches taller, and the better part of an inch (0.7) wider. The addition of a third floor crossmember bring a 30 percent improvement in torsional rigidity over the previous car, according Hiroatsu Hirata, head of Nissan's product plan, and a third engine mount reduce engine vibration. Hirata also hope that the stronger the roof, B-pillars, and thresholds for external body - as well as the availability of the front airbags - will bring a better ranking in occupant protection test collision.
It is a production no one really wants to experiment, of course. A more positive benefits of the new structure, with its increased size, is a significant upgrade of interior volume, especially in the rear seat area, which has been extended by approximately two cubic feet. That may not sound like much, but it's enough to swell Sentra compact exceeds EPA's borders, putting it on a more competitive basis with the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, DaimlerChrysler Neons, and others.
More significant in the field of competitive parity, at least in our minds, is the strength of the standard Sentra much enhanced, thanks to a 1.8-liter DOHC 16-valve new four. Like previous DOHC 16-valve 1.6-liter, four, 1.8 is a clear undersquare (80.0-by-88.0-mm bore and stroke) design. Unlike its predecessor, the smaller, the new engine has variable valve timing, a time series (compared to less durable belt), an ignition coil-on-plug, and more importantly, a bundle more punch: 126 horsepower and 129 lb-ft of torque, compared to 115 hp and 108 lb-ft wimpy. Just as important, the peak torque of the engine is 2400 rpm compared to 4000 to 1.6.
Although larger Sentra is worse - more than 150 pounds in hand GXE models - Nissan hopes the new engine to whack off a second time 0 to 60 mph. Based on the final test our midrange GXE (C / D, February 1996), which should mean a middle-eight seconds sprint quite respectable.
There is a variant of the engine that engenders pride more technical among Nissan, one of which was inspired by a specific model - the Sentra CA. Although this model will be limited to California, where low sulfur fuel is the principle, Toyota My Dinh letters actually stand for "clean air," celebrating the first gasoline engine to meet Ban California Air Resources super standard (SULEV) low-emission vehicles. It does not have any evaporative emissions, and it does all this with very little sacrifice in the first place - only 4 hp and 7 lb-ft.
Although GXE is expected to account for about 70 percent of revenue Sentra, we prefer sportier SE, with adjustable suspension system slightly more aggressive and more power. SE propulsion powered by 2.0L DOHC 16-valve same four that's been around for a while. A wider variety of intelligent variable muffler capacity of Nissan, and other small tweaks combine to bump output from 140 horsepower and 132 lb-ft of the previous incarnation to 145 horsepower and 136 lb-ft
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