Then vs. Now: 1998 Nissan 240SX Vs. 2013 Juke Nismo - Automobile Magazine
The first love or the new flame. It’s no different with car enthusiasts. The great thing about cars, though, is that we don’t have to rely solely on our memories. We’ll never know how twenty-eight-year-old Michael Jordan would have fared against twenty-eight-year-old LeBron James, but we can find well-kept classic cars—the icons that enthusiasts worship—and pit them against their modern equivalents. Old-car patina versus new-car smell. Time to slot the tall shifter into first gear and put the 155-hp four-cylinder to work. It has the low-end pull of a larger engine yet keeps growling toward its redline. You can heel-and-toe easily, the steering wheel sends coded messages about the front tires’ traction, and the car settles into a solid squat through corners. A front-wheel-drive crossover. It sounds like the antithesis of the 240SX, but in many respects it fits the same mold. The Juke is affordable yet fun, an aspirational model for young drivers who don’t want a dowdy Sentra—just as the 240SX was in 1998. Did we mention that the Juke Nismo has a six-speed stick and a 197-hp turbocharged engine. Source: www.automobilemag.com
