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I know I'm fickle - just the other day I was loving the Juke, but this little baby has got me all excited. Aside from the back end looking like the design chaps got bored, went home and left the work experience kid to tidy everything up, it's a pretty smart little car.

And you could even close your eyes (possibly not whilst driving) and imagine you're in a McLaren F1, what with that 3-seat layout and fancy cockpit.

Unfortunately, I doubt anyone will buy one - why look like a twat in an unknown brand's car when you can spend £60,000 and look like a twat in an Aston Martin Cygnet? Or why not get a MINI, or a Smart, or a Toyota iQ? And legitimate concerns have been raised already about opening the door in the rain. But I don't even leave the house in the rain, so that's OK.

I love the Juke.

via autoexpress.co.uk

It was only a couple of weeks ago that I realised I had consistently done Bruce Willis down - he's great in Pulp Fiction, 16 Blocks, Fifth Element, Bandits, Sixth Sense - in fact, many of the films I enjoy watching the most he is in. I even quite enjoyed him in Die Hard 4.0 in all his baldness.

The reason I mention all this is that I've recently had a similar epiphany about NIssan - Qashqai, 370Z, Cube, Murano and now the Juke. Admittedly the Micra is Nissan's Armageddon, but we can't have it all ways, them bills have to get paid somehow.

Nissan makes some good cars - it still feels weird for me to say this, but I can't wait until the day that I get to spend some time with a Juke. I think it looks absolutely marvellous, and there's no driving experience short of poking me in the eye every time I press the brake pedal that is going to dampen my quixotic fervour.

Of course, I'd still buy a Cube over anything else with my own money, but that's a whole other fetish and there's time for be to be wooed, Juke...

I would quite like a Gordon Murray T25.

I love the Juke.

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