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I wanted to bring to your attention some incorrect technical details in the Survival Guide for the Nissan Note in the July 2019 issue.

Your advice is to stay away from the Note 1.6 automatic CVT, but my wife has owned two of these – a 2007 and a 2010 model – and they are still being run by our children as handme-downs. They are not the type of CVT auto described in CM, but what I would describe as being the conventional type, with a torque converter with lock up, four-speed with brake bands and clutches. This is a reliable and smooth-changing autobox, with good ratios for performance and economy.

I think there has been a mix-up with the Note MKII, which does have a CVT ’box, linked to a 1.2 supercharged engine. Two years ago, my wife and I looked into replacing our Note MKI for a three-year-old MKII automatic, but decided against it following advice from an autobox specialist who didn’t rate the CVT’S reliability. My wife eventually got a very lowmileage Fiesta 1.4 auto (conventional type), but this is nowhere near as smooth as the Note MKI, especially from cold. I wouldn’t want any readers to be put off buying a MKI. Gordon Day Martyn Knowles responds: Thanks, Gordon. You are quite correct – we got mixed up with the Nissan Note MKII model having a CVT ’box fitted as an option.