2027 Nissan Kicks Rock Creek Walk Around, Review and Test Drive – Nissan's Rugged New SUV Explained!

2027 Nissan Kicks has officially gone off road. The Rock Creek is nothing new to Nissan but here it is on the Nissan Kicks for the first time. Now here in Canada this one has an MSRP of $36,670. For all my American friends out there it has an American USD for this all-wheel drive model of $28,860. Let's go through what you get on this package. As we know the Rock Creek comes with a lot of cosmetic accents so here you can see you have kind of these orange inserts right in our front grille we also have our Rock Creek badging on the front grille and we have our red or orange kind of nissan symbol is all oranged out there is a forward facing camera with this Rock Creek package you do get the around view monitor which we'll show you when we start it up and standard on the kicks comes different collision sensors it's nissan signature led headlights and you're gonna have the automatic high beam assistant as well checking out the side profile of the nissan kicks you can see this one comes in the full black interior but you get this exclusive Rock Creek badging right on your door panel there and then as we shift over to the rims you do get the 17 inch aluminum alloy rims with the orange insert and the orange nissan emblem as well now traditionally on Rock Creek packages like we've seen in the Rogues or the pathfinders you do get the all-terrain tires it's important to note that this kicks Rock Creek edition is going to come with regular all-season tires these specific ones are Kumho tires obviously like i said 17 inch now exclusive to every Rock Creek you do get these tubular roof rails this one's rated at 165 pounds for a Nissan Kicks, these are adjustable roof rails so great if you do want to strap things off the roof but a little low capacity on the Nissan Kicks for 165 pounds in my opinion I feel like you would need more depending on what you're doing, having a look at the rear, that red and orange kind of color goes on throughout, you do have the orange Nissan badge and then this one comes with LED tail lights, you also get the all-wheel drive badging with the little Rock Creek emblem on the back backup camera as well and you have your rear parking sensors, now before we start this thing up this is your moment to subscribe if you guys are new to the channel, hit that subscribe button, give us a thumbs up, put your comments in below, what do you think of the Rock Creek package here? Are you considering a 2027 Nissan Kicks? What other options are you exploring? I'd love to hear in the comments but this one comes with the Nissan intelligent key, you have your remote starter your lock unlock and your panic button right on the key so you can just click the lock button and hold the remote starter and there it's going to start up and we're good to get inside now as we jump into this 2027 Rock Creek package, right away you can see it does come with the Rock Creek leatherette seats so it has the leather and then it does come with this little cloth insert and the nice orange stitching on the inside which I like with our Rock Creek badging this one is a six-way manual adjustable driver's seat and that orange stitching continues all throughout the dash you see in the center console on the steering wheel so it kind of gives a unique look from the traditional white one all right let's start this thing up and take a look at some of the interior features it's going to come with heated steering wheel and it is a leather wrapped wheel right on the wheel you do have Nissan's Intelligent Cruise Control so it'll keep you a safe distance from the car in front of you what my eyes gravitate to are these large screens here so we have one 12.3 inch display here that's for our infotainment and then we have another screen here now this comes with a seven inch display here right on the screen now it's a large screen but they really only have one screen here and another small screen so it's really two smaller displays behind the wheel this one's going to show like our tachometer and our other features there's our drive modes tire pressure monitor so this is actually a really nice display and then we have our digital speedometer here which shows our fuel gauge our speedometer our kilometer empty and our odometer but in the SR Kicks the package above this you get a full advanced screen here another 12.3 inch screen this one is two seven inch displays let's check out the camera when we're parking here so this one has the around view monitor that is an advantage of going up to this Rock Creek so there's a camera on all four sides of the vehicle great if you're parking into campsites or parallel parking it's really easy to park and then down below that we have a nice large volume knob we have our digital temperature control our heated seats and then there is a wireless phone charger as well right in the center stack so you can just pop your phone right there and you can see now it's lit up and charging our push button start we have an electric parking brake with the auto hold there's two usbs and then we have our different drive modes so this one comes with an off-road mode a standard mode a snow mode a sport mode and an eco mode which is really what you get in all the all-wheel drive versions of the Nissan Kicks the center console i'd like to see a little bigger center console it isn't as big just to show you this is my phone and my phone won't even fit in the center console so i'd like to see a little bigger center console and more storage in the Kicks so let's check out the back seat here now this seat's positioned for how i would be driving there isn't a lot of room but there is enough room i guess i would say um there's one cup holder in each door if there was three of me back here it would be very tight i'm five nine to give you some perspective still got some space um what i would like to see back here maybe another usb port maybe some more cup holders uh because if you have three people back here it's going to be a little tight but overall if you're a family of four smaller kids this would be great so let's look at the trunk cars unlocked dead body test you're fitting two dead bodies in the trunk back here they're 23.9 cubic feet of cargo capacity you can also fold the seats down if you have larger items spare tire in the Rock Creek edition which is very shocking the 2026 Nissan Kicks did not come with a spare tire this one comes with a spare tire which i'm very happy that it does so that's a positive comment what you guys think of the spare tire but you got lots space in the trunk it is much bigger than most people assume by looking at the outside of the car all right so we got her in sport mode nissan advertises 8.2 seconds for a 0 to 60 so let's test that right now in three two one mississippi two mississippi three mississippi four mississippi five mississippi six mississippi seven mississippi eight mississippi oh that was pretty much bang on as advertised uh zero to a hundred i guess it's a little slow of a takeoff and you can hear when you step on it that that engine is working it's a little louder like you might have heard the growl through my microphone but it's a very loud when you step on it the car it has a CVT transmission so it's not really meant for stomping on the gas pedal and launching. It should be more of a gradual acceleration and that's also how you're going to get the best fuel economy. It is going to be a two liter four cylinder engine which is going to give you about 140 horsepower and 141 pounds feet of torque. So it is not a fast car let's put it that way but you do get incredible fuel economy it's 7.8 liters per every 100 kilometers that's about 27 mpg that's combined between the city and highway now i've driven this car for a handful of months not this rock creek edition but i've driven the nissan kicks for a handful of months if you want to see like my six month review i'll put it in the description it is a real pleasure to drive and it's phenomenal on fuel you do feel a little tight in here like i feel so close to you guys as i'm filming and recording this because there's not a lot of interior passenger volume in the front interior volume is what you're looking for i would recommend you choose something like uh the Nissan Rogue my other complaint is the gas tank is small like you're getting maybe 400 to 500 kilometers per tank in terms of tech and features this one comes with wireless Apple CarPlay wireless Android Auto you have Sirius satellite radio for standard it doesn't come with Bose for regular audio speakers it sounds fine coming out of these speakers let's talk about like the Rock Creek specific things about this drive and really this has been my beef with the Rock Creeks this car actually has one specific thing with the drive which is the hill descent control what that gives you is basically if you're going down a steep hill or you're slipping down a hill and in winter conditions the car will actually maintain a slower speed so that you don't accelerate down hills or speed up as you're coasting down a hill that's really the only specific drivability feature that you get to this Rock Creek so if you're looking to compare this to something like a Jeep Wrangler and take it off-roading or take it mudding those type of things it is not that at all if you go camping you know you're driving through conservation areas or driving through campsites things like that it's uh the odd weekend in the summer you put the kayak on the roof those type of things is what this car is good for if you are going on trails and things like that every weekend i would suggest that this is not the car for you and you need to get something a bit more off-road worthy i like how it drives do i like the price i'm dutch i don't like any price so this car being at 36 000 is quite steep we are going to do a comparison to the SR Premium Kicks to compare this Rock Creek to the top package and see which one's worth the money so stick around for that so let me know what you guys think of the 2027 Nissan Kicks Rock Creek will this compete with some of the other off-road vehicles on the market like the Subarus i want to hear from you guys if you guys are new to the channel make sure you subscribe give us a thumbs up on this video thank you to all of our channel members who have become a member and joined our community here if you want to support our channel hit the join button we'll see you in the next video Thank you.