Regular Car Reviews

2025 Nissan Versa 5MT (32x53)

Data emisji: Lis 24, 2025

The 2025 Nissan Versa S isn’t just the cheapest new car in America, it’s one of the last surviving Nissan cars to offer a manual transmission. But a manual transmission in a Nissan Versa doesn’t carry the same meaning as a manual transmission in any other car on the market. Because a Nissan Versa is a poststructuralist car: a machine defined not by horsepower, design, or even intent, but by what we project onto it. Is the Nissan Versa a truly meaningless car, or is there actually a GOOD Nissan underneath all of this symbolism? This week’s Regular Car Reviews is one big analysis of one of the most contradictory cars we’ve ever reviewed, the 2025 Nissan Versa S!