We have barely driven it, but we are all Happy apart from son #2 who doesn't like the colour - tough!

Leasing was a good deal, especially through my business. In three years we are likely to need a manual car for son #1 to learn to drive, so its a good option and the value of the A-class pays for two years of the lease anyway. We could have bought, but I didn't fancy shelling out £14,000 plus p/x just now and there were not too many cars withthe sepc we wanted in the nearly new lists.

As Avant says, the new A-Class has no USP whereas Nissan seem to be finding them and building desirable cars customers want. There always seems to be a manufacturer with the zeitgeist at any one time and it seems to be Nissan's turn after 40+ years in the country.

I do not intend on breaking the Juke love in, but the curent Note is more spacious inside.

Alot more spacious inside.

You can all it what you want. We like it!

Its not perfect, and it does set its stall out as more style over substance, but it seems to be getting the punters in.

My gripes so far are: -

Light steering

Small fuel tank

Not so easy access to the back seats.

But the issue of rear visibility is taken car of by a camera, we mostly drive one or two up and people in the rear tend to be children and as we don't go so far, a small tank is a major problem. So far with 230 miles in the clock and all urban driving we have acheived 27.5mpg. I will see what happens over the next 5,000 miles. I hope it improves to 30+!