Current Nissans are awful
I had a first-gen Versa, 2009. That was a great car. Rode smooth, super comfortable, huge on the inside, could park it anywhere. Backseat was so big I could put the kid's carseat in on the driver's side and could still have my seat all the way back. Had it 7-8 years and the only thing that ever went wrong was the battery which died prematurely. It was a manual though, no CVT. The CVT equipped ones were time bombs.
I think they started to go downhill not long after that. I loved that Versa so much that I was pretty much deadset on buying a Nissan for my next car. Test drives changed my mind, they were horrible. The Sentra was brand new and had a rattle and everything was plasticky. The Altima was worse and more expensive. The second-gen Versa sedan was hideous. The hatchback was less hideous, but was smaller and less powerful than the model preceding it which was a horrible marketing decision.
I probably would've been OK with the Juke though, but I couldn't find one to try out. But from everything I've read they're cool.