The Micra ST’s basic trim also gives away its budget status, coming with 14-inch steel wheels (Ti gets alloy 15s), ugly black exterior door handles, and thin cloth upholstery, while also lacking the Ti’s foglights and roof spoiler and some of its soft-touch interior panels.
Despite its micro exterior (the Micra measure just 3.8 metres from nose to tail), the cabin is surprisingly spacious, and unlike one of the best of the breed, the Celerio, it gets five seats rather than four.
Read our recent head-to-head comparison between the Micra ST and Celerio, in manual guises, here.
Most adult passengers will have enough headroom in the second row, though the base of the front seatbacks is intrusive at about shin-level, cutting into legroom. The rear seat base is flat and firm, though it’s unlikely to cause too much discomfort if only used for short trips â€" or probably more regularly for shopping bags…
The front seats are comfortable and set quite high, giving drivers a surprisingly good vantage point from such a tiny car.
We found the seating position works best for smaller drivers, however. At 180cm tall, I felt as though I was sitting up too high, even with the seat set at its lowest point, and oddly felt that the rear-view mirror obscured my view out the left side of the windscreen. The C-pillar is also quite broad, though tall side windows mean rear visibility is decent.
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