On a grocery run, I noticed this candy apple red Nissan Micra. Don’t get me wrong, supermarket parking lots are usually stocked full of librarian-spec Nissan Micras, but this was worth photographing. The 2007-model car is one of the rare enough C+C coupe cabriolet, and it’s about as ungainly looking as any millennial coupe cabriolet with the exception of the Mercedes-Benz SLK and the NC-body Mazda Miata.
I did actually stick around for a while, taking in the shapes and shades. The C+C is just baffling.


The front end of the C+C is fairly indistinguishable from the rest of the range. This one has the HR16DE 1.6-litre engine with 110hp, that you don’t see in Micras too often.

The folding roof stows in the trunk, and requires quite a bit of real estate to do that.

And it’s actually a 2+2, even if I wouldn’t use the back seats for anything else than storing grab bags.

 
Also, to add convenience to insult and injury, this one is an automatic.
 
 

This is what the roadside theatrics look like with the C+C.


It is just a little bit frivolous, but then again: maybe one shouldn’t take the London-designed foldriolet too seriously. Maybe Nissan was fully aware just how dumpy the car looks like, and even if it probably drives quite poorly and the trunklid weighs at least 500 kg, it’s hardly worse than a comparable Peugeot 206 CC. Maybe the roof on these actually works without duct tape, too.
[Images: Copyright 2015 Hooniverse/Antti Kautonen and Nissan Newsroom]