Faults:

At 15,000 both front struts had broken.

At 50,100 the transmission went out.

At 65,000 the right rear brake mechanism literally fell apart.

General Comments:

The quality on the Nissan Sentra has gone by the wayside. The car has zero oomph. Sure, I can press the "sport" button to add torque, but after pressing the button for the first time, I realized that all it actually did was cause a light to come. There was almost no change in performance.

The seats are very uncomfortable. I travel up to 7 hours in one day for work and my back is screaming at me by hour two.

The wipers are pretty worthless. I can put on top of the line blades, but it's pointless because the wiper spring tension is so weak, it doesn't provide enough pressure to clear the windshield.

The trunk does seem roomy, except there's a bar that comes down when you shut the trunk, so there goes 8+ inches of trunk space.

Bluetooth works fairly well for phone calls, but doesn't stream music audio from my phone.

This was my first Nissan purchase and also my last. If I wasn't immediately underwater on my loan the second I signed that last dotted line, I would have traded it in by 2017.

Faults:

Nothing significant.

General Comments:

An undistinguished compact sedan, at best. The most compelling reason to choose this over its competition is (1) trunk space, and (2) the discounts you can get from a dealer eager to get it out the door. Ours was a leftover 2014 purchased in February 2015 for those reasons.

The cabin and trunk are incredibly spacious, however the front seats are very poorly-designed, providing little support. Additionally, it can be difficult to achieve comfortable adjustment of the driver's seat and steering wheel. Even in the top trim level, both front seats are manual (in its competitors you get power driver's seat).

It gets good fuel economy, but at the price of being very slow by modern standards and providing a very high level of CVT "drone". The car seems very underpowered (it is rated at 130hp; almost all its competitors have about 15+ more).

Handling and braking display no dangerous tendencies, it's very predictable to handle.

Settled at a constant speed on the highway it is reasonably quiet and has an acceptable ride for a small car.

The infotainment system and smartphone integration works pretty well.

We have been very dissatisfied with our dealer's service department; they seem to be very greedy in terms of trying to sell us huge amounts of overpriced maintenance. Won't be dealing with them again.

Faults:

Flawless at 10,000 miles.

General Comments:

The Nissan Sentra is the best bang for your buck. I decided it was time to get rid of my Subaru at 300,000 miles. To replace a 1998 Outback with a new model would be over $30,000. As a budget buyer, I looked at every model in this class. Corolla, Cruze, Civic, Focus and Elantra. I found these all to be good cars, but for the money I pulled the trigger on the 2014 Nissan Sentra. For about $20,000 I got a car loaded with options including navigation. The Sentra also gets 40 MPG.

My only complaints are small ones. The seats are a bit on the hard side and the CVT transmission takes some getting used to. Do not plan on taking home any trophies from the local drag strip. This is the down side involved in getting 40 MPG.

The car rides like its on rails and not a rattle anywhere to be found.