• Easy to use
• Good infotainment system
• Wireless charging available

How’s the quality and layout?

The Juke’s interior has clear influence from the old Micra, with a strip of faux-leather or fabric across the dash, doors and centre console. Sadly, the extreme levels of interior customisation you once enjoyed on the car are gone. Nissan has now bundled the Juke’s different cabin designs into its trim levels.

There is some good news, though. Nissan has retained the Juke’s physical climate controls, volume knob and skip buttons for the stereo, which is quite refreshing now that more rivals are pushing their controls onto the infotainment system to save costs. The updated Ford Puma is one such casualty.

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Nearly everything you touch has a solid feeling to it and we suspect it’ll hold up well for years to come. Go searching and you’ll find cheaper and nastier feeling materials though. A Skoda Kamiq or GT-spec Peugeot 2008 scores higher for quality.

Infotainment and tech

All post 2024 facelift cars get a 12.3-inch touchscreen that’s much better than the old system. It’s canted slightly towards the driver which is welcome when you’re behind the wheel, and has much crisper, sharper graphics than before. It’s also more responsive and isn’t too taxing to navigate.

All models have sat nav courtesy of Google Maps, and there’s over 70 apps you can download to expand the infotainment system’s capabilities. Smartphone connectivity in the form of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are standard on all models.

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Plus there’s an app for your phone, which allows you to lock and unlock the car as well as pre-load destinations and settings into the sat-nav, while also remotely monitoring consumables such as tyre pressures and fuel level. For the real technophiles, this can also be accessed through a Google Home smart speaker, allowing you to ‘talk’ to your car through your home. All-in-all, it’s a huge improvement on what went before.

Comfort

• Seats are impressively supportive 
• Hybrid powertrain is a little clunky
• Some wind noise from door mirrors

The seats on higher-spec cars are quite comfortable, and they do offer plenty of adjustment, so everybody should be able to find a position that suits them. They’re supportive enough, if not quite as figure-hugging as those in some versions of the Skoda Kamiq and SEAT Arona.

We found the standard petrol to be refined enough, but the hybrid system is a little clunky when switching from electric to hybrid running. The car’s large door mirrors also generate quite a lot of wind noise, which can be loud enough to be distracting at motorway speeds.

Also, if you opt for a hybrid model, you’ll be subjected to a bit of engine whine when accelerating harshly. There’s not much you can do about this, but at least it’s quieter than the Renault Captur, which uses a similar style of hybrid.