The Nissan Micra, launched in India recently has met with immense success in its home market, Japan. Nissan managed to register over 10,000 bookings within two weeks of the vehicle’s launch. Nissan only expected 4,000 orders every month but as it turns out, the orders are two and a half times as many. Interestingly, silver seems to be the most preferred colour as are black interiors.

The Japanese spec Micra comes with the same HR 12DE 3-cylinder engine as the Indian model and features Start-Stop technology, with ABS, EBD, SRS airbags and SRS side airbags, load limiter with pretensioners for the seatbelts, linked front wipers, dawn sensors and multi-reflector halogen headlights with manual control. As a result of the CVT and Stop-Start, the new Micra achieves a segment leading 26km/l in Japan.

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