NISSAN gave the design workforce charged with styling the sixth-generation Micra a transparent mission: make it completely different to the Renault 5 – and make it extra elegant.
In response to the top of Nissan Europe product planning, these objectives have been achieved, leaving the ‘5’ to a extra masculine purchaser set, and the Micra for a feminine viewers.
“The Micra is a extra elegant mannequin that may entice extra feminine patrons, whereas the Renault 5 is a sportier, extra masculine mannequin,” Alexandre Armada informed Automotive Information Europe this week.
Penned in Nissan’s London studio, the brand new Nissan Micra is dominated by giant, round LED headlights, a signature repeated on the rear. In contrast, the lights of the Renault 5 are trapezoidal within the entrance and vertical within the rear.
Nissan designers say the modifications offers the Micra “its personal visible persona” regardless of the mannequin carrying over the 5’s roof and greenhouse.
In response to Automotive Information Europe, the physique panels of the Micra are additionally differentiated from the Renault 5 with out altering any of the donor mannequin’s arduous factors. Trying on the wheel arches, it’s straightforward to see the variations, the previous being extra rounded – and extra pronounced.
Transferring inside, we word a steering wheel that’s particular to the Nissan mannequin, the Micra additionally adopting a one-pedal driving choice not obtainable within the Renault 5.
What’s acquainted to the Nissan Micra and Renault 5 are a number of the tougher to change mechanicals, together with the battery pack, electrical motors, warmth pump, ADAS applied sciences, and infotainment system.
For the UK market, the Nissan Micra will provide a alternative between 40kWh or 52kWh battery packs delivering a driving vary of as much as 419km (WLTP). Charging energy (DC) is rated at as much as 110kW with charging from 15-80 per cent achievable in as little as half-hour.
Two energy choices can be found from the only electrical motor – 90kW or 110kW – with each mannequin grades together with an ordinary warmth pump to enhance battery effectivity and vary.
Tools highlights for the 2025 Nissan Micra embrace built-in Google Maps, over-the-air software program updates, adaptive cruise management, autonomous emergency braking, blind spot warning, lane change warning, and rear autonomous emergency braking.
Each the entry-grade Nissan Micra and Renault 5 are identically priced at €28,000 ($A50,025) plus on-road prices.
The Nissan Micra is constructed alongside the Renault 5 at a shared facility in Douai, France. The mannequin kinds a part of Nissan’s technique to launch 4 new battery electrical autos earlier than 2027, the Micra to be adopted by the all-new Leaf in Q2 subsequent yr.
The Leaf will probably be adopted by an electric-only Juke later in 2026, whereas the fourth mannequin, based mostly on the Renault Twingo, will arrive in early 2027.
Nissan Australia has stated beforehand that it has no plans to launch the Micra regionally.
