[GMVanGuy]

One thing I miss about the 2014s that my brother and I both had. Our Sentras were both 6spd manuals. 30-35 mpg in town with bursts to 6,500+ rpm getting on the congested roads and highways of Dallas/Fort Worth. Long road trips often approached 50 mph running 75-80 mph. Little 1.8L liked to be up in the RPM a little to make enough power to make it up next hill without having to downshift. I thought the MPG display on the dash was lying the first trip to and from San Antonio to visit my sister, cruising 80+ and it showing 48 mpg. Hand calculated right about the same. At 65 it never did better than 40-42.

The way the manual version was tuned from Nissan, it did not like being lugged down at all. Zero power and terrible fuel mileage unless you ran it up to the 2,500-4,000 rpm during normal acceleration at part-throttle. They cruised at 3,000 rpm @ 70 mph in 6th gear. If you needed real power to get keep from getting run over, it had a second power band from the VVT and Intake Swirl aka Power Valves opening that came on around 5,000 rpm and the car would pull effortlessly to the 6,800 rpm limiter. Little car had surprisingly good get up and go if you had the pedal down and managed real nice mpg at cruising speeds.