2020 Nissan Versa

Beaver Direct Certified One-Owner 2020 Nissan Versa S Front AND Rear Automatic Braking Standard $1,395 Platinum Warranty Included One Owner 52,525 Miles Fresh Powder over Charcoal Stock #T887195 One owner from new - which is exactly what you want to hear when you are buying a car for somebody you love. One name on the title, one continuous history, no auction chain and no gaps nobody can account for. When the person driving this car is a new driver, the question is not really ''is this a good deal.'' The question is ''do I actually know what this car has been through.'' On a one-owner vehicle, you do. That is the whole reason a clean single-owner history is worth paying a little more for, and it is the first thing worth knowing about this Versa. The second thing is the safety equipment, and it is genuinely unusual for the price. This is the base trim of Nissan's least expensive model, and it comes standard with Automatic Emergency Braking with Pedestrian Detection - which watches the road ahead, identifies pedestrians, and stops the car if the driver does not - plus Rear Automatic Braking, which does the same job in reverse and will stop the car before it backs into something. Front and rear, on a base model. In 2020 that was equipment you normally had to climb well up a price list to find, and it is precisely the equipment that matters most for a driver who has not built the reflexes yet. It also has Lane Departure Warning, High Beam Assist, brake assist, and a backup camera - all standard. Brake assist is the one most people underestimate: it reads how quickly the pedal is pressed, recognizes a panic stop, and applies full available braking power even when the driver did not push hard enough. New drivers very often do not push hard enough. This car makes up the difference for them. 2020 is also the year the Versa stopped being an appliance. Nissan redesigned it from scratch for the third generation - 1.6 inches longer, 1.8 inches wider, and 2.3 inches lower than the car it replaced, with a proper sedan stance instead of the tall, narrow shape of the old one. The interior was rebuilt around the ''Gliding Wing'' instrument panel from Nissan's more expensive sedans, with a 7-inch color touchscreen standard along with Bluetooth hands-free calling and audio streaming. The previous Versa was a car people bought because it was cheap. This one is a car people buy and then find they genuinely like. 122 horsepower, and fuel economy that changes a monthly budget. The 1.6-liter four makes 122 horsepower and 114 lb-ft of torque, and with the Xtronic CVT it is rated at 32 city / 40 highway / 35 combined. Forty on the highway means a tank goes a long way and filling up stops being a real line item. For a student, a commuter, or a household second car, that number does more work than anything else on the spec sheet. Fresh Powder over Charcoal, and the white is quietly the practical choice. White is the most visible color on the road at dusk, in the rain, and on an unlit county road at night. It is also the coolest car to climb into after an afternoon in a Georgia parking lot, and it hides pollen and road dust far better than dark paint. For a vehicle bought with a new driver in mind, visibility is not a styling preference. The Charcoal cloth interior is the sensible companion - cool in summer, warm in winter, and it does not crack. The original owner added the sensible things, which tracks. Splash guards to keep grime off the paint behind the wheels, carpeted floor mats to protect the carpet underneath, and a center armrest with storage, which is a small item that makes a real difference on any drive past twenty minutes. None of it is exciting. All of it is what somebody adds when they intend to keep a car nice - which, with one owner and this mileage, is evidently what happened. 52,525 one-owne