Tune deaf

Nissan Micra £18,010/£18,560

Nissan wants the new Micra to appeal to young folk like me (23). For that to happen it needed to nail the infotainment – and it hasn’t. Ours is a top-spec Tekna, but it doesn’t have Apple CarPlay. For now that’s reserved for the mid-spec Acenta. Theory is you don’t need it when you’ve got built-in nav, which ours has. Nonsense. I (and 50m others) use Spotify for music, and so far as I can tell, there’s no support for it whatsoever. It’ll play alright (providing you hit play on your phone before you set of), and you can skip ahead to the next track, but if you want to listen to a diferent album or artist, you’d have to use your phone. I thought Nissan’s own app interface would have a solution, but no – that gives Facebook and Twitter access, isn’t as easy as it should be to set up and is largely pointless. Screen and graphics are low-rent too. Shame.