Red Tag Event – December 2009 Automotive Rebates
December 7th, 2009
December Auto Reviews & Rebates
December 4th, 2009Nissan Cube, It’s Huge
August 16th, 2009Nissan Cube – it’s huge
The Cube is three months old, here in the United States anyway. Now in its third generation of production, the Cube first went on sale in Japan in 1998 (Ref: Wiki). It’s been on the market here in America since May, and it’s already made an appearance in my drive way.
It’s the morning of August 16th, 2009. I’m training for my second marathon, and it’s time for our “long” Sunday run. Oh it’s about 65% humidity and promising to be 85 degrees before we complete our eight mile run. I had a hard, very hard, time getting up this morning. It took me five minutes (while lying in bed filled with dread) to find a new training mantra. I found it. I repeated it. And, it worked! Some days you’re lucky.
I was downstairs in the dungeon pretending to have something important to do on my laptop when my training partner yelled something trashy about my lazy ass through the screen door. When I got to the door, he was grinning from ear to ear with his smart new Nissan Cube glimmering behind him in the drive. It is sacred white with blacked out windows that wrap around its boxed-up rear end and loaded with back-up sensors and Rockford Fosgates. We did the exclamatory walk-around noting the Cube’s rarefied flare for practicality, style and economy in one little box.
That’s the last time I’ll use the word little to describe this new Nissan. I sat in it. From the inside, it’s huge. It’s unbelievably comfortable and accommodating. I expected to feel like the classic old clown in a beetle. Nope. The Cube allows big guys and small alike do what they do best. You can pull the seat and tuck-yourself-in tight up under the steering column. Or you can drop the seat back, reach the steering wheel with ease, and stretch in the comfort of your air conditioned car after a long, hot August training run. The Cube passes the versatility test. Period.
I have not yet been blessed with an opportunity to pilot the Cube. I hope to be writing my test-drive report soon.