This 2004 Nissan Sentra Se-r Spec V Was Built To Dominate Autocross

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From nan Honda Civic Type R to nan Hyundai Elantra N, Toyota GR Corolla and moreover nan Subaru WRX, we unrecorded successful a clip wherever mainstream compacts connection genuinely unthinkable capacity for your dollar. Nissan, however, isn't moreover successful nan speech and hasn't been for years. I mean, it benignant of tried back in 2017 pinch nan Sentra Nismo, instantly sewage beat astatine its ain crippled by nan Elantra Sport and past gave up. But backmost successful nan day, nan Sentra was a morganatic athletics compact, and nan champion of nan bunch was nan Sentra SE-R Spec V. And now there's 1 for waste connected Cars & Bids.

With a 2.5-liter inline-four nether nan hood making 175 horsepower and 180 pound-feet of torque, you won't beryllium winning immoderate resistance races successful this car, unless nan personification racing you drives, I don't know, a Toyota Echo. But there's besides much to sporty cars than straight-line speed, and this point has autocross champ written each complete it. That's partially because nan Spec Vs sewage sportier suspension setups than nan regular Sentra SE-R, but Nissan besides stuck a helical limited-slip differential successful there, which was still a large woody backmost successful nan early 2000s. Not bad for a car that costs astir $18,000 erstwhile it was new.

So yeah, it whitethorn still beryllium a front-wheel-drive Nissan Sentra that's down connected powerfulness compared to a caller Prius and still has a Sentra interior, but it's still nan Cool Sentra, comparatively uncommon and group up to beryllium an absolute hoot connected an autocross course. Oh, and you can't hide nan six-speed manual transmission. As MotorTrend said astatine nan time:

The Spec V's modular Torsen-type limited-slip differential makes nan beforehand extremity consciousness arsenic if it's really digging for traction, nary matter really overmuch throttle pedal you propulsion astatine it. Whip nan steering instrumentality backmost and forth, and nan powerfulness assistance keeps up pinch your enthusiasm (a uncommon point successful this class). The brakes are effective, and nan optional ABS doesn't intervene excessively soon.

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Still, we're talking astir a two-decade-old Nissan Sentra here, truthful it's understandable if you're concerned astir really it held up. The bully news is, while location could ever beryllium a fewer gremlins successful location that you'd person to woody with, it looks perfectly unthinkable for its age. There are a fewer scratches and chips successful nan paint, immoderate interior deterioration and a small rust present and there, but nan erstwhile owners took unthinkable attraction of this car (considering it's still a Sentra astatine nan extremity of nan day). 

Part of that has to do pinch nan truth that it only has 31,100 miles connected it, which useful retired to a small little than 1,500 miles a year. They besides kept nan interior astir arsenic adjacent to showroom information arsenic you're going to find connected a 22-year-old Sentra. That said, it isn't wholly stock. According to nan listing, it now comes pinch an aftermarket aerial intake, a cat-back exhaust, an motor lipid drawback tin and LED bulbs successful nan headlights and foglights. Thankfully, astatine slightest based connected what you tin perceive successful nan video nan seller included, nan caller exhaust didn't wholly ruin nan car. Still, you'd astir apt astatine slightest want to person nan headlights looked astatine truthful you don't unsighted oncoming drivers pinch nan LED bulb swap. 

As for nan interior, it whitethorn person felt inexpensive backmost successful 2004, but a small nostalgia goes a agelong measurement successful 2025, particularly if you're tired of screens and touch controls. There's a mini show that shows nan clip and nan power station, arsenic good arsenic a integer odometer, but that's astir it for screens. Even better, there's an actual, beingness power for each azygous function. Want to move up nan power volume? Turn nan knob. Want colder aerial blowing retired of nan vents? Just move nan knob. Want directions to that caller restaurant? Print 'em disconnected your machine aliases bring your phone, because this puppy judge arsenic hellhole doesn't person a navigation system.

Is this car going to beryllium for everybody? Not astatine all. But if you've been looking for a mostly affordable autocross car, you tin decidedly do a full batch worse than this 2004 Nissan Sentra SE-R Spec V. After all, likelihood are, this point won't moreover deed $10,000 by nan clip nan auction ends.