Used Car Of the Day: 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R

by Tim Healey

Published: November 4th, 2022

used car of the day 1991 nissan sentra se r

Today's used car of the day is a Chris Tonn special. It's a 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R. And it's affordable.

That's the good news. The price is a low $3,500. The bad news is the body appears to need some paint work, and there is one rust spot.

On the hand, the seller says there are no mods or major mechanical issues and the car runs well. On yet the other hand, it doesn't have ABS or a sunroof.

If you're a Nissan stan looking for a fun project car on a budget, this could be for you. If you're looking for something, um, more aesthetically pleasing you might want to keep browsing.

Nissan fans, hurry up before our own Chris Tonn adds this to his fleet.

[Image: Seller]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Z9 on Nov 05, 2022

I owned a '91 NX2000 which was the "more attractive" version of the SE-R and remember it fondly. The thing that sold me on this platform was, first, being given a regular Sentra for a month when my VW was trying hard to be a Lemon Law case. Then I decided to test drive an SE-R and met a car salesman in San Francisco who, before letting me drive the car, took me on a highly irresponsible and thrilling drive on nearby city streets. The guy was a physics postdoc and said he was selling cars for fun.

One thing I remember from driving the Sentra was the incredible visibility. Visibility is an underrated fun factor.

Is the SE-R a future classic? Don't ask me, I have terrible judgment on that account.

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- FreedMike on Nov 06, 2022
  
  Nice examples of this car are going for decent money, but not modern classic money.
  
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Wjtinfwb on Dec 07, 2022

One of Nissan's best, from their last days as a scrappy, Mazda type builder of fun cars. Too bad those days are gone.

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Wjtinfwb Looks in decent nick for a Junkyard car. Other than the interior being partially gutted for some trim pieces, you could probably drive it out of the junkyard. Maybe a transmission issue and the cars value precluded a $2k or more fix? J cars were pathetic when introduced in '82 and never really got any better. But GM did sort out most of the reliability issues and with a modicum of maintenance these would run a long time if you could stand the boredom. Guess this owner couldn't.
GS340Pete I see a lot of these on the road. I can't remember the last time I saw one on my local Chevy dealership's lot. They've never in my memory had a few lined up with balloons. Short sighted to kill it off? Perhaps. But I certainly think the rows of $65k and up trucks is short sighted. That's going to bite soon. Looks like they're piling up already.And what about the Trax? Malibu or Trax? Gotta be honest, I'd pick the Trax.Although it should have 50 more HP IMHO. And why are so many preaching doom about the 'wet belt' engine?RIP, Malibu. Ride the highway in the sky with the Impala (talk about short sighted.)
ToolGuy GM didn't care about these and you shouldn't either. 😉
FreedMike Yet another GM Deadly Sin: trot out something in what was a very competitive and important market segment that hadn't been restyled in 11 model years, and was based on a platform that was over 20 years old, and expect people would be dumb enough to buy it over a Corolla or Civic (or a Focus, for that matter).
TheMrFreeze Makes you wonder if he's seeing something with Stellantis he doesn't like and wanted out as a result. As somebody with three FCA vehicles in their driveway, Stellantis is sounding more and more like DaimlerChrysler 2024 🤬