Over in America, the Nissan Versa Note is one of those cars you buy only because you can't afford anything better. It's cheap, and we don't mean that in a good way, plus it's powered by a 1.6-liter 109 horsepower engine. Not so in Japan, where buyers tend to have a more conservative approach to motoring.
Between congested streets, speed limits and high taxes, the little Note is actually your average commuter, ideal for young families. And unlike the old Note, this hatch is actually well designed, so they can also sell it to the younger crowd.
We've seen all sorts of crazy commercials from Japanese car companies, but nothing could prepare us for this one. It's about three hipsters dressed like pimps who ride their magic cloud through the city. We could be wrong about this, but the guy in red appears to be themed after the classic monkey king fable, which also involves magic clouds.
As the three are distracted by a beautiful young hitchhiker girl dressed in white, the magic cloud reveals its true identity as a Nissan Note. It also uses its automatic braking system to avoid crashing into another car because the guys were too buy looking at the girl.
And as if pimps on a cloud wasn't bad enough, the hitchhiker takes off her hat to reveal that she has no hair on her very shiny head. Where to now? India, of course. We can literally not explain a single thing from this whole clip.
Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida. Full profile
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