Plus points over the BMW.
Quieter.
Higher ride, obviously.
Better equipped, I love the pano roof and the thermaclear.
More boot space.
Not as many rattles.
More relaxing to drive as I drive it slower for no apparent reason.
Minus points over the BMW.
Definitely down on power. Not surprising you may think but I've been caught out squirting past an artic which would have been an effortless task in the BMW but in the QQ I was pretty close to oncoming traffic, not dangerously so but enough to make me think twice when I go to overtake something now.
Doesn't handle as well, again no surprise there.
It took me probably a month to get a comfortable seating position. It's fine now but I had aches all over until I got it spot on.
It's uses more fuel than the BMW. Not a great deal but I'm averaging a true 45 mpg with the QQ and it was about 50 mpg in the BMW.
The parking sensor/camera sometimes comes on for no apparent reason. It's only happened twice but still, it shouldn't happen at all.
The one thing I do miss every day is the fact that you can program the radio buttons on the BMW to do whatever you want. I spend a fair bit of time on the phone with work related stuff. So I had the last three programmed with phone numbers that I use a lot. Just one press and you were through instead of flogging through menus on the QQ, I think that Nissan missed a trick there as I do find it annoying and potentially dangerous to start scrolling through menus.
The Sat Nav takes you some weird and wonderful ways, certainly not the quickest or most economical. When I bought the car I used it on journeys that I do every week and know like the back of my hand just to try it out. I couldn't figure out what it was doing half the time, it took me sometimes miles out of the way. I only use it now when in with a chance of getting lost in a town center for example as I don't really trust it.
Having said all of that it's a great car to drive. Very comfortable (now...!), quiet and relaxing. Moving back to a manual was no grief at all, I don't even notice changing gear. It's been back to the dealership once to cure The Rattle (air filter box), other than that it's been totally reliable apart from the twice I had the camera come on for no reason.
I just wish it had more oomph...
