2022 Nissan Sentra SR Midnight Edition Test Drive and Review BETTER than the Honda Civic?

How's it going guys? Christopher here from Cars Unlocked. Today we're presenting you the 2022 Nissan Sentra Midnight Edition. It's been a long wait here for the 2022 models at the Nissan dealership, but we finally just got in some Midnight Editions. Not too many changes from the 2021 models we've seen last year, but Nissan for 2022 dropped this Midnight Edition line, which you've seen on my channel before. That's going to be all the black that you see on the exterior of the car. Very cosmetic. It's going to have an MSRP of about $25,498. You're going to get the black rims, the black mirror caps, you'll have the black rear spoiler as well on the trunk, and then you'll have all your black Sentra and Midnight badging all throughout the back. Let's dive deep into the car and check everything out. So we're taking off in the Sentra here guys. We're doing the video a little different style now, mainly because it's so windy and aggressive right now. We can't really walk around the whole outside without the microphone going all haywire, but you guys have seen the outside of the Sentra many times on my channel. Nissan kind of, I think, knocked the ball out of the park here with their 2020 redesign of the Sentra. This is certainly one of our most popular models here. They changed the whole exterior. You have the nice deep V-motion grille on the front, you have the floating roof look, and this one being the SR package, you get that two-tone roof. So you can choose different two-tone roofs. This one comes with the white exterior and the black roof. You can choose things like blue and orange, black and orange. There's all different colors you can choose to match the black roof, or you can just get the standard color matching roof. So exterior styling is great. Nissan really did well. Is it in the same realm as the Civic I posted a few weeks ago? I don't know. I think the Civic is still kind of at the top of the game here. The Sentra does need to come a bit further to get into that upper echelon of this subcompact market, but this is definitely a contender if you're looking for a small sedan. Exterior styling is great. Interior styling on this SR package, you have a ton of features. You have this nice two-tone cloth seat. You can get a leather package as the next package up if you want to go up to the leather package, but this one is just going to come with the cloth, and it has this nice orange stitching throughout the dash. You have these nice circular vents right in the front here as well, and the orange stitching is all throughout the wheel. So the Sentra styling is a really sporty, athletic-type feel into this kind of subcompact sedan, which we really like. It's equipped with a two-liter DOHC four-cylinder engine. It's going to give you 149 horsepower and 146 pounds-feet of torque, and that's going to come equipped with a CVT transmission. You're going to get about 7.3 combined liters for every 100 kilometers for your fuel economy, and that's about 6.2 highway and about 8.3 in the city. So really good fuel economy. That's one of the main reasons why you're going to buy this vehicle, and you're going to be buying it for the space that you get on the inside. There's a lot of interior passenger volume. If someone comes into our dealership and tells me that they're driving Uber, things like that, I like to lean towards the Sentra and present them with the Sentra because it's very good on fuel, and it has a lot of space on the inside. We can talk about the safety features. It has some of the most standard safety features in its class, this one being the SRL. You get the full Nissan safety suite, the automatic high-beam assistant, the forward emergency braking with the pedestrian detection, you get the rear emergency braking, you get the blind spot warning. You see that as I deviate from the lane right now, the wheel vibrates, so it gives me that haptic feedback to let me know, like, hey, you're deviating from the lane. And you can see my blind spot is indicated right there. It's just letting me know that someone's in my blind spot. And then when I go to change lanes, it beeps at me and it flashes, telling me not to change lanes. So a ton of safety features. You also have the intelligent cruise control, so I can just set my cruise control here, and I can keep myself a safe distance automatically from the car in front of me. It will adjust my speed for me so that I don't have to keep adjusting my speed depending on the speed of the car in front of me, which is great. Infotainment-wise, you have the large 8-inch touchscreen here, and then you get the Sirius satellite radio. You have the Android Auto, the Apple CarPlay, AM, FM, Bluetooth audio streaming, pop-up a clip of the backup camera. The backup camera works pretty well. It's not as high-definition as we see in some of the competitors, but it does help when you're parking. You have a nice heated steering wheel as well for the driver, great for those winter days. And then you have your heated front seats as well. Comes with a push-button start and a remote starter, so you can remote start it up from, they say it's about 400 meters, but I would say it's more like 100 meters. You can remote start your car and warm it up. That way, the car's ready to go and everything's all warmed up by the time you get in it. You give it about five minutes, and you're good to go. So a ton of nice features. When you're sitting in the back, there's a lot of space in the back. Your passengers should feel very comfortable back there, and there's quite a bit of cargo room. We did a dead body test, and we fit about three to four dead bodies in the back of the trunk of the Sentra, so not too bad space in the back. We're gonna jump on the highway here, and I'm gonna just punch it a little bit so I can show you. It's important to note there's also a sport mode. If you feel it's not accelerating fast enough, you can drop it into the drive sport, and that's what we're gonna do right now. It just gives you a bit more acceleration, and that's at about 6,000 RPMs, and we just bumped up right there to 120 kilometers an hour. I don't want to say it's a lot of power, but it is enough power. Let me put it that way. You have enough power to pass on the highway. You have a lot of oomph if you do need it, but it's not a crazy fast car. This isn't like the Nissan Maximus, things like that, and then when you're driving in normal mode, you can drive in normal mode. There's also an economy mode, and that's gonna give you a little less RPMs, so you don't have as much acceleration, but you save on fuel. Good if you're in stop and go traffic or doing a lot of city driving. If you're a sunroof person, you can see there is a nice big sunroof up here. It's just one single sunroof, but definitely a must-have if you're getting the top model. You would want to get a sunroof with your money. Lets a lot of light in the car, lets the car feel a lot bigger. So that's a wrap on your video, guys. Hopefully you guys enjoyed it. Let me know what you guys think about this 2022 Midnight Edition for the Sentra. Was it smart that Nissan brought it to the Sentra? I'm pretty sure they're gonna be bringing it to their whole lineup. It is very popular when customers come to the dealership. Just adds a little bit more sporty, cosmetic styling. It usually doesn't cost that much more of a price increase to get the Midnight Edition, so I think this one is going to be a hit, but you guys let me know your thoughts. I always love hearing your thoughts, and if you guys want to see more unlocks like this, make sure you guys subscribe to my channel. 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