Faults:

The second day I owned the car, it failed to start. removing the distributor showed the breaker-points to be faulty, so new ones were put on.

From there on, nothing really broke on the car, it serviced us well for a year until a few days ago when the cam-belt snapped/broke. A costly and big repair, even if you can do it yourself.

General Comments:

Good points:

A very economic car, gas consumption, road-tax e.t.c.

Being so small, it is very flexible and quick in city traffic.

Spare-parts are easy to find, both new and used. And cheap.

Being small and low, it almost feels like a Go-kart sometimes!

Not so good:

Safety in a crash is (almost) none.

Slightly cramped seating positions for all if you are more than 2 in the car.

Noisy at highway-speeds.

Faults:

Clutch is difficult to control on the brand new Micra. This is different from the earlier models. In worst case you can smell smoke.