The £250 1999 Nissan Micra K11 Review 

Micra owner gets laughed at by everyone. Micra owner also laughs at everyone else’s mechanical issues since the Micra will only stop when the world stops.

These cars are so underrated. Used to rally one and the handling and reliability was spot on

My First car is one of these. I've had it five months, it's been through 5000 miles of delivery driving, college and uni dailying, shopping, ragging up to 90mph on the a46, it's fantastic - cost me £200. They really are indestructible engines and they corner so well. Anyone who wants the cheapest stand in car - these give you no issues. Edit: Go for a manual, they're so much more fun.

The Nismo badge adds an additional 10bhp.

JAY! Guy with the soarer here.. Yes, totally this video is on point. The 250 quid Nissan micra is literally the most sensible and affordable cheap daily. We went up to the lakes in one of these and cost pennies. My brother dailies ones with basically zero issues, yet nobody understands WHY.. Christ sake, dirt cheap fun little cars!

I had a 1993 Micra 1.3 16v for 10 years. It was my Grandad's and it was passed onto to me at 17. The car was 5 years old and had 7,000 miles on the clock. Had it 10 years. Although I didn't rag it, I wish I'd have taken better care of it. It was a great little car. It was nippy, it was roomy, the non-assisted steering was nice and it was the first time I ever tasted freedom. I could drive wherever I wanted without Mum and Dad looking over my shoulder. I'll always have incredibly fond memories of it. Wished I'd have fixed some of the rust, wished I'd have fixed the oil sump. Scrapped it when it had 90,000 on the clock. I've had objectively much better cars since but this will always be my favourite. Rest in peace K35 OBG. :-)

I've been working in a automatic gearbox repair shop for 3 years and I've never had one of these come in.

These K11 Micras were tough little cars.

MORE OF THIS STUFF PLEASE. FORGET THE EXOTICA- THEYRE ALL THE SAME ANYWAY

Got one of these as a Christmas present, I love it, runs perfectly, drives brilliantly. Never would believe its 20 years old

At long last you're reviewing a decent car‼️ I had one of these, an Si 1.3, and it was brilliant. I was eventually nagged into moving up-market, so I bought my current 12 years old Micra. As you know, a genuine petrolhead will go to any length to get the car of their dreams. The engine in the K11 is an automotive work of art. I hope the New Year will see you concentrating on such beautiful machines rather than the nondescript, run of the mill rubbish you tend to test‼️

more cheap crappy cars pls

These micra are bulletproof..I got my hands on a 99 ....1lt with 25000 genuine miles during covid and it's like new my daily driver ...love it ..£ 800 .hope it will last for years no computer parts to go wrong ....wind up windows lol

I had the same Micra that lasted me 14 years without anything going wrong at all and I sold it back in 2010 ish and I still see it driving around leeds where I live. The amazing little car that took me to Spain, France and all over Britain.

Strong solid reliable car you only have to watch a Micro banger race and nearly all the cars are Micra's and it's amazing the stick they take and keep going !

If you want to compare this to a manual 1.3 I'm more that happy to let you have a run about if your not too far away 😂

My ex-girlfriends grandma had one of these, with the CVT and the even more gutless 1.0i engine. I had to drive it a few times just because the battery would go flat otherwise. With the pedals you have to understand that they aren't actually an accelerator and a brake, but rather "Noise" and "Fear". The one on the right increases the engine noise, the one on the left is used to measure your level of terror, and neither have any real bearing on your speed which is controlled mostly by the slope of the road.

I had a 1.3 manual and it was the most fun car I’ve ever owned, even more fun than my 306 GTI-6. I remember laughing like a madman on the drive home from picking it up.

This was brilliant, absolutely loved it! I watch all your videos and I must say the cheaper / older cars are always more interesting, love it!

I had one of those as a company runabout, same colour and trim. Picked it up from the dealer with 26 miles on the clock and took it to about 40,000. Surprisingly good fun to drive and the engine was unburstable.

Probably one of your most entertaining videos had me in stitches 😂

Just found this Channel after typing in Nissan Micra lol, my mate used to have a L Reg (1993) bright red one back around 2006, he used to thrash it around (manual) playing 50cent😂😂 new subscriber from the Midlands 🇬🇧👍

Hi Jay, my Dad passed away in January & left behind his silver S reg Si Micra with only 35k miles on the clock. I've just gotten round to giving it a good clean & polish & am currently charging the battery. It has a few scrapes to the rear bumper & alloys, but other than that it's a good car. Oh, it has sunroof & A/C. It's not my type of car, but I'm wanting to keep it for awhile & give it a good service in memory of my Dad.

We had a fleet of these for hire at a previous employer - They took some abuse and we never had I breakdown associated with one ! We would get rid of them at 10k miles or 6 months but they were kept way past that ! One 00 one we had had 65k on and we called her grandmother !! It drove better than a new one A good friend had a 1.3 super S and it was brilliant over the back roads ! My missus had a 97 one for 12 years - never 1 problem apart from a rusty cross member - we got her sorted for 100 quid ! Modern cars don't have a record like that - a legend of a car ! A car for everybody and anybody !

I had a mk2 micra as a driving school car years ago, was brilliant, never broke down and by far one of the easiest cars for pupils to drive.

bought one for €270 recently, manual 3 door with sunroof. love it to bits! makes a nice change from my Pajero! :)

Those badges and woofer are funny indeed, yes. But.... I bought one. And removed badges first. 1.0 54BHP with manual box and retractable roof. For exactly the same reasons. To work. To survive winter. I covered approx. 4000 miles since I bought it. Insurance almost for free. Almost 40mpg. Thanks to roof I do not need an AC. It's ran in the city only so 60mph is all OK. It only wanted new oil and tyres. It's cheaper then bus. Just comparing to the bus there are no stinky sweated people who never heard of shower nor fragrance on your back in the summer peak and it is usually on time. Less than 4m length, wheels in corners, great view and excellent turning diameter enables it to park anywhere. That car does exactly what I did want it to do. Nothing more. For almost zero costs. So for me the price/value rate is very good.

I got a Micra a month ago for my first car and it’s brilliant, great for beginner drivers, I’m also called Dan as well, how strange haha!!

Makes my 54 plate Daewoo Kalos runaround look luxurious. Love the vid - fantastic, very funny especially as I can relate to almost every comment!

I'm getting one of these this week as a stopgap car, you've made me quite look forward to it! Looks like a right laugh!

Yes!!! N-reg micra was my first car, given to be by my grandmother, and I bloody loved that thing! Drove the absolute wheels off of it, as you do as a 17 year old, and never did a single service for 6 or 7 years and never had a single issue. Then sold it to a mate who rolled it into a ditch a month later. Mine was a 1l manual, and when I started driving a full tank of fuel only cost £30. What...a... machine.

I drove a Micra K11 daily for the past 5 years with absolutely no issues at all, and the petrol costs me pennies. I also bought mine for £250 but it’s 1.0 and absolutely brilliant AND it has a tape player so i can listen to my Metallica cassettes that i bought in high school lol. I love it.

Skinny tyres and a small engine are the way to go. Something that makes you smile for so little and at legal speeds is surely better than spending a fortune on something which doesn't really come to life until you're looking at speeds warranting a driving ban or imprisonment?

I got one and ran it for 12 years, 120,000 miles. Took us down to Lyon every year sometimes twice a year and never broke down once. Just got another one with 43,000 on it a 2002 mint ,so here's to another 12 years of worry free cheap motoring!

We bought one for my wife to practice her driving. And I have the same kind of fun on it like you are having right now. Ours is 1998, I think. We do our regular Lidl visits in it too. What a fun car it is.

Micras are amazing

I drive a k12 daily, never thought I'd get attached to it as I bought it to do a job not because I wanted one but I really have. Such a plucky little beast, mostly gutless but I still have good fun with it (I abuse it honestly) and it's monumentally reliable. I think Micra's are underrated as a whole: cheap, reliable, still fun, great for learners/new drivers etc. This video was great btw

Really don't know what has gone "wrong" with the engine on this, but I have a 2002 version K11 facelift. Coil packs etc 1.0 16v and it really runs quick. Drives like a dream and from standing you can feel it pick up pretty quick. Yes it's 1.0 but for the size of the engine I can honestly say does feel very nippy. Edited to add - mine is manual, not automatic.

My K11 1.3 is like the Doctor Whos Tardis bigger on the inside, had a large bike in the back as well as 3 people, my car handles well had no problems with it breaks are great holds the road like glue looking to buy another one as i love the fact you can do all repairs on them yourself which is so much fun!

I just bought my Nissan Micra K11 last week :)

I had a K11 1.0 Shape which was the Superleggera edition including factory deleted cigarette lighter, clock and rear windscreen wiper. On the plus side there was nothing to go wrong. It was cheap, reliable and fun.

I used to have the Super S trim one of these. Absolutely brilliant little car. The wider lower tyres made a hell of a difference to the handling. If Nissan had seriously tweaked the engine or fitted a turbo it would have been a serious little hot hatch..

Absolutely brilliant 😂 best fun I’ve ever had in a car having driven well over 100 different things is an £80 fiat uno. Soooo much fun to be had in a shitter, I’m more jealous of this than any car I’ve seen you drive!

I've got a twenty-three year old K11 S - still running and passing through MOTs with no issues. Regularly throw it around the twisty bits on the way To Uffington White Horse and often leave sports cars for dead. Not fast but really excellent handling.

When we moved to the UK in 2004 our first car was a - wait for it - 1993 K11 1.0 with electric NOTHING! But it was an amazing first car to own - reliable as heck, and living in South East London, you could park it anywhere too! Did 40k miles over 4 years in it. Drove it to Liverpool and back, and also did a trip around all of the south east coast in it. And I kid you not, I did 85mph in it on a drive back from Stansted, but I did use up half a tank of petrol in the process!

I got a Micra K11, I got it of a friend who is a retired aircraft engineer so he always done the oil changes every 6,000 miles and insisted on using fully synthetic Oil, So far it has done 213,000 miles, and is generally reliable (did break down last year and had to be recovered) but it is old (V reg) I can see it running well in to the 300, 000 mark if I keep doing the oil changes. The body will go first before the engine.

That CVT suits these, spiritedly getting to 40MPH. 2 things kills em - rusty sills towards back wheel and timing chains. My 1.0 did 100mph once!!!

3:40 - looks like one of Carlton's sweaters from 'Fresh Prince of Belair'.

My mate had K10 and K11 1 litre Micra's and she loved them, reliable like nothing else and practically ran on fresh air. I borrowed the K11 for a Scotland trip once and at a couple of stages thought the fuel gauge was faulty.....but no, it was doing 48 mpg!!

3.10 😂 didn’t expect the upgraded sound system haha. This reminds me of my first car, understeering everywhere in it scaring all my friends in the tin can! These are the best types of cars because you don’t have to care about it!

I loved the review, needed a good chuckle this morning. Looked like you had lots of fun. Cheers

More fun fact it does not have a height seat adjustment option 😂. Driving this car gives you personality it was my first car and with time i wanted to change to something exotic but i couldn't cus i just so love it.

Noticed the Torque GT keyring in the little cubby hole in front of the shifter =P advertising for those boys in the mighty micra lol !!!!

The micra k11 is a TARDIS , looks small, but theres actually more room than most think.

A lot of my friends had these as first cars so I’ve always had love for these

Couldn't contain his laughter after it drove by xD

I do a daily round trip of 78 miles in my X-reg Micra S. It runs flawlessly, never complains, never goes wrong, so cheap to service and run. Thought about replacing it many times but, from an economic point of view, I would be mad to replace it until it falls apart. At 19, she sailed through her last MOT with only 3 advisories, one of which was for the tires!

My girlfriend got a 2000 Renault Clio with 30k miles on the clock for £300. Hasn't had a single issue in 18 months so you can't really say no to those bangernomics

Good video. I once drove a manual 1.3 version and I thought it was actually quite spritely!

I had a 1.4 manual and was "made" by my little bro to fit an induction kit for shits n gigs! I had an Audi S3 with big mods so I needed a cheap daily, my pal had a 1.0 manual affectionately known as the bird poo Micra. I always took the mick and swore I'd lever get one but a train ride and £380 later I was driving home laughing out loud at how slow it was but instantly I knew I liked it and it's cheeky little face. It served me well at work in security at all kinds of festivals, trips to London from the south coast, racing other slow hatch backs through tiny country twisties and taking my Nan to the shops. It was fun to "try" and drive fast and economical and dependable too. I am soon due to buy "the bird poo Micra" as my pal is upgrading to a mint low mileage example of yet another K11. You will only dislike one until you own it. Banger race it on the road, slide around in a field or enjoy some of the best handbrake turns you can get out of a car nowadays and never care if someone scratches or dents it. An all time fav car of mine and so many others. Salute the K11. Salute....

These are honestly the cockroach of the automotive world. They're a car I shouldn't like as a petrolhead but the utter respect I have for these things because of their indestructible-ness makes me kinda like them! Only weakness is rusty front crossmember and rear of sills, mechanically they just do not go wrong.

I had a 2001 1.4 activ in a lovely blue green colour with some awesome aftermarket wheel. I had my Speedo pinned @ 120 once or twice. Thing would be happy @ 80 on the motorway all day long. Bought for £500, drove for a year and the timing chain snapped. Replaced it with a 1.3 Yaris but I still pine for that car. To this day I wish Id've found someone to replace the engine. So easy and fun to drive and had longer gearing than my other small cars. It always shocked people with how fast it was for a stock Micra but I guess it was the quickest they made. Plz do a review on one you'll love it (not a CVT!)

Great review, my wife had a 1.0 ‘Inspiration’ in Blue as her first car, and I drove it for nearly a year as well. Excellent and capable little cars! Just a shame the front crossmembers rotted out or else these would be the automotive cockroach of our time.

Nice job and funny video. I´m owner Micra 1.3 75Hp, manual, (my first own car) almost 2 years, it´s very good (Japanese) car - yes it´s small, fun, max. speed which I try was 95mph (153Km/h - on bad road in full traffic). I am very happy with them, his engine is reliable. This car is absolutely enough for me. Because Micra...

Yes I still own one of these Fine Machines, Infact i have owned mine now for almost 8 years. Total Reliability all wrapped up in a Shell that owes absolutely everything to the original Mini Too. Here in 2021, Its amazing now how so many have actually Vanished that the price of Decent ones are now slowly Creeping up. Laugh At Grannies Little Runaround as you like. I had many people Take one at me in the past. Guess who have all had to go and buy new cars? I am still With the Micra. Says it all. If you look after these Things, They will just keep going.

Mine was decent! 1.3 16v with 75hp & no weight. It would easily play with xr2 & xr3i’s off the line & pull to an indicated 120. Really underrated

My one is a 98 R K111.0l shape 5dr n-cvt, my dad bought it from new, has 67k miles on it. I used it to tow my go-kart trailer around. Still use it, it's fun around town :)

Got a 2002 manual model. It has been abused but the worst thats happened to it is the sunroof handle broke and a window handle falls off. Other than that it has been perfect. Thrashed down the motorway. Rammed with junk for the tip. Tootling around town. Its a fantastic car.

An entire low mileage car for the cost of a set of decent tyres, and perfect for town driving, whats not to like :)

Fucking finally a car I've driven too! Actually I love these Micras, they're so easy to drive in the city and decently comfortable too!

I recently bought a 2003 Polo with 1.2 12V engine under the bonnet which puts down a simillar amount of horses being comparably *small* and I love the car In 2 months I`ll be making a worthwhile trip around the country putting around 500 miles on the ODO. I think such cars aren`t inherently a city bound or made for elders or youngsters but rather people who don`t care for the performance in their cars just like me and I`m nowhere to be compared to either of them

Spotless presenting skills, very enjoyable to watch.

My uncle used to own one of these in the early 2000s, he fell asleep on the wheel and rolled it. He survived it with only minor scratches. Kind of liked these ever since

I had one of these as my first ever car 😂. Champagne colour 1.3glx. Even had a Sony head unit 👊

These are the most underrated small cars of their time. You might see the odd fiesta or corsa of the same age still on the road once in a while, but I see at least three of these a day. My girlfriend loves them. I drive hers regularly and it is faster than the fiesta 1.25 I had as my first car and its only a 998 haha. Brilliant little things. Handling isn't great but that makes it fun even at 40.

Love this review more of this style

Lots suffered from rust, the engine is fine provided you keep oil changed regularly and spark plugs usually neglected on second hand models.

This is a great idea and something I've done for the last six months or so. Got a "good" car that I drive, but for the daily commute I have a 2004 Toyota Yaris. I don't care if someone dings it on the car park at work.

Great video and fun assessment of probably one of the best cars ever created to do the job of being ‘just a car’. We have had one in our family now since it was new 20 years ago and it’s been brilliant. Never let us down, cost virtually nothing in maintenance over the years and has been owned and driven by the archetypal little old lady (my mother in-law as first owner) my wife, my daughter, my son, and now me. Yes, they are never going to set the tarmac alight, but on the other hand, I’ve never had a fear of MOTs, as it’s jet to fail one. It’s now only just gone into retirement from dairy service, and will be cherished and used for shows such as the Festival of the Unexceptional, which is right up its street. Thanks for doing a road test of a car that does what it was supposed to do - get people around cheaply and reliably 😀

What's the most performance you can have for £1,000 maybe be a good video.

I had a K11 back in my early 20's.. a 1.0L model and I got a speed camera fine 'just to take the bird ice skating' because I was doing 89mph ! I think your car must be down a few horses.

I would like to see a review of a Renault 5 Turbo, always wanted one and could never afford one!

Give it a revin Kevin. Hold it flat Mat. Embrace the open diff Cliff Ya won't bend it If you don't send it, send it!

An old 2002 Suzuki Swift GLS should be reviewed. Fun little 3 cyl car.

Micras are the best shit box cars you can get definitely. They are cheap asf and super reliable. With the K11s just keep an eye out for rust on the sills and rear floorplans, especially on the sun roof models. I have a K 12 Micra and it starts every time without fault, cruises along quite happily. The K11s are probably the best for reliability as the early K12s had timing chain issues.

man, I'm sold. Is this car for sale? With the wet dog smell, I wont need an air freshener to cover up my BO.

I own a 93 1.3 super S and I like it very much.

My sister owned one of these. Ran it with literally zero issues for 9 years. Then she gifted it to my now wife who ran it for another 4 years. Literally nothing required other than standard services. Basically cost free motoring and it helped us save for a house. If you want to laugh at that go ahead

He was having more fun in this Shitbox than most of the cars he reviews. My wife has 2014 Sukuki Alto(auto) and it's very much like this car with odd tweak. She loves it to death. Fun gutless car just watch out for huge hills.😂😂

I also had a 1.3 Micra though it was the earlier 1994 LX model. No power steering, and a manual gearbox. It had about 70bhp and was very nippy. It even managed to pull 2 20+ stone men, a not so heavy bloke, a rabbit the size of a dog and a full oil barrel without too much to complain. It was extremely basic transport. Treated like rubbish and never broke down. It had to go in the end as the poor thing rotted almost as bad as Lawrie's Dodge fire engine... But I loved it, every drive in it brought a smile or a laugh.

Compare the vauxhall corsa against the micra, would be interested how they do

Absolutely loved this. Please do more vids with crappy cars

Best car review I've watched in ages! Awesome!

Love this video, reminds me of my 05 plate Hyundai Getz that I picked up for a winter daily for £250 quid, it’s got dents all over it but it’s better than using my Mini John Cooper works over the winter 😂😂

Thats the kind of review I like, those old dirt cheap cars really are a lot of fun

Please more old crap heaps this is the type of thing I started in a H reg Fiat Uno that decided to stop working as soon as it started to rain but it never failed to raise a smile especially when you actually got to where you needed to be

10/10 for that. One of the best reviews I’ve seen. Full stop. Made me chuckle a fair bit. Your next cheap shit box review should be a Perodua Kelisa or Kenari. I once test drove the Kenari for a laugh, and much like that K11 Micra, it was so terrible it was actually brilliant. Or test a Breadvan Polo 1.3, my mate Nick had one alongside his 3.0 TDI A5. The Polo was so hilarious I had to stop driving because I was laughing too much.

Fun video thank you. Peugeot 306 GTI, Citreon ZX Volcane, Ford XR3i or MG Maestro / Montego Turbo if you can find one which hasn't rusted back into the ground.

This was hilarious 😆

First car was a k11 1.0 W reg. Loved that car. Downhill once managed 107 indicated although I dread to think what the GPS would have said 😂 great fun car and on budget tires the back end would kick out in the rain on roundabouts with some lift off oversteer 😂 so cheap to run tho like 30 quid for front brakes Vs my Audi now at 10x that price 😭😂