The quirkiness and sense of enjoyable of the unique Juke’s inside design was toned down just a little this time round, and it was augmented by a fairly clear effort so as to add some richer materials and technological attract. There’s nonetheless loads of visible character and just a little little bit of enjoyable consider proof, although, and each may be dialled up past the extent of our check automobile in case you go for range-topping Tekna+ trim.

While the design aptitude hasn’t been allowed to take over, or to stop the Juke from delivering passenger area or ambient perceived high quality to make it aggressive with its rivals, there are nonetheless loads of curved, bulbous surfaces distributed all through the cabin. That’s fairly a distinction towards the flat-faced Kamiq and the drab Vauxhall Crossland. The gear lever’s encircling inside a hoop of ambient lighting is a pleasant contact, too. 

You sit excessive and barely bent-legged on the controls, with higher visibility of the world exterior than you get in a conventional hatchback just like the Clio. The devices are analogue dials, with a good-sized digital drive pc display screen positioned between them that may show the same old alternative of journey pc or in-car leisure info. The ritziest small crossovers now provide absolutely digital clocks, after all – however the Juke’s instrument binnacle is much from antiquated and it’s clear, easy and simple to configure to your liking.

Nissan’s use of leather-based and chromed plastic smacks of an try and elevate the Juke’s atmosphere upmarket, which is reasonably profitable, though perceived high quality is just a little inconsistent. More spectacular is how a lot additional area has been discovered contained in the automobile relative to what was a fairly impractical displaying beforehand.

Although the Juke isn’t the best-packaged or most accommodating automobile in its class, it now not will get the picket spoon for second-row occupant room or for boot area. Taller adults can sit line astern now fairly comfortably, whereas they wouldn’t have had a hope of doing so earlier than. The automobile’s 422-litre boot is respectable for capability, too – up 20% for quantity on the final automobile, higher than the Puma (401 litres, discounting its underfloor Megabox) and equal to the Captur (422 litres) and made accessible by an adjustable-level flooring.

The hybrid loses 68 litres of area, owing to the location of its 1.2kWh drive battery, nevertheless it’s nonetheless bigger than that of the Captur E-Tech (326 litres). Rear seat area is extra beneficiant than in that automobile, too.

Nissan Juke multimedia

Only the very least expensive, Visia-grade Jukes go and not using a 8.0in touchscreen infotainment system. You needn’t enterprise past one-up Acenta trim to get that, and it contains smartphone mirroring for each Apple and Android telephones, in addition to NissanJoin dwell info providers and a rear-view digicam.

N-Connecta spec contains TomTom sat-nav with dwell site visitors info, and it’s a fairly good system that’s easy to programme and arrange and simple to comply with – a lot as most are seemingly to make use of it.

It’s a disgrace that the addition of the hybrid to the Juke line-up didn’t convey with it the combination of the extra fashionable display screen used within the newest Nissan Qashqai and Nissan Ariya. As it stands, the 8.0in system feels outdated graphically, though it’s unlikely to offend both.

You solely get the Bose Personal Plus encompass audio set-up in case you climb all the way in which to Tekna grade. It’s not one of the best purpose to spend the additional cash, though it does create a convincing sense of width to its encompass sound music copy.