"My, how you accept grown!" When you analysis drive the 2010 Nissan Altima, abstain aural like a clueless uncle greeting an developed niece at Thanksgiving dinner. If, like abundant of America, it's been a while aback you've been in the bazaar for a sedan—rather than an SUV—it'll be appetizing to echo that accustomed Turkey Day refrain. (Thanksgiving is a admirable anniversary that reminds us why we no best reside with some people.)
The four-door Altima Auto comes as the 2.5 CVT, 2.5 S and 3.5 SR CVT. Also, beneath the Altima awning is the Altima Auto and Altima Amalgam sedan. (We'll leave the auto and amalgam auto for approaching reviews.) Here's how to break Nissan's archetypal nomenclature. The "2.5" indicates the car is adapted with a actual able 175-horsepower, 2.5-liter, four-cylinder. The "3.5" agency it enjoys the alarming 270-horsepower 3.5-liter V6 engine. All Altimas are adapted with a "CVT," which stands for "continuously capricious transmission." Added on CVTs later. Prices alpha about $20,000 and go to about $30,000 for the gas-engine cars.
If you're searching for a actual roomy, affordable sedan, accede the 2.5 CVT. If you're accommodating to pay a bit added for Nissan's adventurous feel, the 2.5 S CVT is an accomplished choice. Those who like to go BMW hunting in the stoplight Grand Prix or on a ample aback alley will be actual entertained by the 270-horsepower 3.5 SR CVT.
Changes for 2010 affection a added absolute grille, awning and foreground bonanza cover. Inside, the Altima gets new fabrics. Electronic adherence control, which Nissan calls VDC, now comes on all Altimas, but that's not too advisory as it will anon be government-required on all commuter vehicles. The 3.5 SR CVT (formerly alleged the SE) now comes with high-intensity acquittal headlights.
Rather than physically alteration apparatus like a accepted automatic, a CVT uses a belt and caster system. It's advised to accumulate the engine at its most-efficient dispatch for the assignment required, behindhand of whether that's optimum ammunition breadth during artery canoeing or best dispatch for amalgamation into traffic. Few drivers will apprehension a aberration amid a CVT and a approved automatic, except for bigger ammunition abridgement and able acceleration. Gearheads: The Altima's CVT aswell employs a baby gearset to access its able arrangement range. Don't yield this too hard, gearheads, but the CVT does a far bigger job of maximizing the engine's achievement than you could with a chiral transmission.
The four-cylinder delivers 23 afar per gallon in the government's city-limits active analysis and a actual absorbing 32 mpg on the highway. The V6 is rated at 20 mpg in the city-limits and 27 on the highway. Altimas are fabricated in Tennessee and Mississippi.
The 2010 Altima accustomed "Good" blast assurance ratings by the Insurance Institute for Artery Assurance (IIHS) in both foreground account and ancillary appulse tests. In the government's blast analysis studies, the Altima Auto denticulate top marks—five stars—in both disciplinarian and commuter aboveboard impacts, as able-bodied as ancillary disciplinarian impacts, and four out of 5 stars in the rollover class and ancillary rear commuter appulse test.
If you're cerebration about ditching the SUV for a ample and adventurous sedan, anticipate about the 2010 Altima.
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