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you can argue with me whether the Duke is actually a sports car but the nissan motor sports division created a Nismo version of this car and then they went and created that Nismo RS version and that's what we have here today either the mismo Division that Nissan has gone crazy or some people like to drive the Juke is really fast the Duke is undeniably a funky looking little car it's got very strange lighting in front we've got these slash blinker lights on top of the fenders we've got round halogen headlights in front and then we have strips of white LEDs below that it's a crazy mix of stuff but I really like it they only come in black white or silver and we get these red mirror caps to really accentuate the look they also set a little lower than the standard juke for better handling and aerodynamics and we also get these 18-inch wheels standard the Nismo RS comes in either front-wheel drive or all-wheel drive version but Nissan gives you kind of a hard choice at that point the front wheel drive version only comes with a six-speed manual transmission and the all-wheel-drive version which has a pretty cool torque vectoring system only comes with the continuously variable transmission in automatic Recaro seats come standard with the Nismo RS version of the Juke and I sort of hate these seats these will keep you in place if you're ripping around the corners but it's just so tough to get your butt over these bolsters it's not entirely comfortable and I wouldn't want to do it every day up in the dashboard here we have basically a double din head unit this is the Nissan navigation package it's pretty good this is a really small screen though it's a 5.8 inch touchscreen but the navigation system is pretty good one thing I like about it is it proactively reads out traffic problems on the road ahead of you even if you don't have a route programmed in the really cool thing about this head unit this actually comes with nissanconnect so I've got my phone plugged into the USB port down here psiphon and it's running the nissanconnect the app they also have it for Android so with a nissanconnect app running on my phone I can hit this apps screen over here and I have to hit a my apps but then if I want to do online search for a destination I just have this online search button wait for it to come up so I can enter any search term I want here I'll just throw in CBS and it goes out to Google searches for results gives me CBS Interactive that's our local headquarters here and once I hit that button then it shows me the address the phone number I could have it make a call through the Bluetooth hands-free phone system where I hit the start button that throws it into the navigation system now you notice I went through a lot of steps to get there I really wish they would put this app kind of in the main navigation menu so I could find it a lot quicker and get my destinations programmed a lot faster but now let me show you the true magic of the Nissan Juke so down here I've got the screen showing climate control and I can change the temperature of course and change some of the settings here but if I push this D mode button suddenly I get Drive settings so this is fairly unique for a car in the segment you get a lot of control over how this car drives right now it's a normal it's showing the torque curve on the screen here not really gonna be looking at that while I'm driving I put it in Eco and it gives me this Eco screen my eco score for how efficiently I'm driving now when I hit the sport but and that's what I really want to do in the Nismo RS I get this thing showing my turbo boost and it also changes the accelerator profile to a sport setting so it's a lot more sensitive I get a lot more power with just a little touch on the gas pedal and it also changes the steering program to a sport program so the steering suddenly becomes heavier more responsive and that's something you don't really find too often on many cars today and certainly not in cars in the segment so I really like that part of it all right really test the Nissan Juke Nismo RS I brought up to a windy road this is the Stars natural element so I got a nice tight corner here coming around told us nicely I can feel that front wheels dig it in it's actually got a limited slip differential on the front wheels but let me talk a little about the engine the whole point of the Nismo RS is that Nissan Motor Sports Group has taken this engine 1.6 liter four-cylinder turbocharged direct-injection and got the horsepower up to 215 they've got the torque of the 210 pound feet amazingly good numbers for that small of an engine for fuel economy with this engine it's rated 25 miles per gallon city 31 miles per gallon highway that's a certainly decent fuel economy searching for a car that's really this fun all right let's price out our 2014 Nissan Juke Nismo RS base price for this model is 26,000 $120 navigation package cost $1,200 and with destination our total prices is 28 130 that's a pretty high price for this car and personally I would go with the standard Nismo model that doesn't have these annoying Recaro seats shaves about $3,000 off not as powerful but still a fun car handles really well that's the one I would get you