FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ARIYA
@stevefowler
IN A year full of electrification for Nissan, the Ariya is probably the most important of its five electrified cars going on sale in 2022. We’re not due to see the Ariya in the UK until the summer, but Auto Express was invited to a private test track to drive a pre-production model. Not that you’d notice that these cars were early models; fit and finish were one of the many things to impress us about the Ariya.
You’ll only have four flavours of Ariya to pick from. Our car is where the range starts, the Advance model that has a 66kWh battery (of which 63kWh is usable), a 214bhp motor and two-wheel drive. Nissan folk were excited to tell us that the official homologation figures had just come through, revealing a WLTP-certified range of 250 miles.
If you need to go further on a single charge, you’ll have to step up to the Evolve model with its 91kWh battery (87kWh usable) and 239bhp electric motor, also with two-wheel drive, that Nissan reckons should cover more than 300 miles.
