Nissan Prices 2025 Kicks

Matthew Guy
by Matthew Guy

With the new-for-2025 Kicks, Nissan isn’t just pushing the model up the ladder. Like most companies, it’s asking if you wouldn’t mind going ahead and doing the job of two people now that one has stepped out the door.


Since the Qashqai Rogue Sport has shuffled off this mortal coil, the Kicks has been called upon to step into the now slightly-more-vast white space between it and the Rogue. This explains why the Kicks is larger and more powerful than last year, plus now being offered with the option of all-wheel drive.

Of course, numerous front-wheel drive variants are still on tap, giving an option to customers who are content with two driven wheels – not to mention an attractive price point with which to emblazon on marketing materials. In fact, the base front-drive Kicks S bears an MSRP of just $21,830 plus fees and taxes, making it affordable to wide swaths of new car shoppers. Adding all-wheel drive to this trim is a $1,500 proposition.


Meanwhile, the SV trim, generally the volume leader in Nissan showrooms thanks to niceties like a 12.3-inch touchscreen instead of the base 7.0-inch display, starts at $23,680 for a front-driver but Nissan dings customers $1,650 for all-wheel drive in this variant. Some pencil-necked accountant surely did the math on take rate and figured out they could squeeze an extra $150 per sale here; given the SV is usually the most popularly stocked trim, they’re probably right. Finally, the Kicks SR will be $26,180 and, wouldn’t ya know it, the surcharge for all-wheel drive drops once again to $1,500.

As a reminder, the old Kicks started at $21,340 for an S, $23,200 for an SV, and $23,900 for an SR. In addition to being smaller, it was only powered by a 1.6L four-banger making 122 horsepower. The new effort has a 2.0L four with 141 ponies. Both the S and SV bear a price hike of around 500 bucks each, remarkable given the myriad improvements especially on the SV since it ditches the poverty-spec 7.0-inch screen. We’ll let you decide if an extra $2,280 is worth it for this year’s SR.


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Matthew Guy
Matthew Guy

Matthew buys, sells, fixes, & races cars. As a human index of auto & auction knowledge, he is fond of making money and offering loud opinions.

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  • JLGOLDEN JLGOLDEN on Aug 14, 2024
    This car looks to be a fresh and perky entry level option. I predict they will sell very well and bring new customers to Nissan. Kicks, Trax, and Envista are re-writing what entry-level can be.
    • Dave M. Dave M. on Aug 14, 2024
      Agree. All 3 offer a lot of style for reasonable money.
  • 1995 SC 1995 SC on Aug 14, 2024
    Continuing off the "affordable vehicle" thread last week this is yet another vehicle that adjusted for inflation sees MSRP overlap with a Geo (or Chevy by then) Metro.
    • Spookiness Spookiness on Aug 15, 2024
      Yeah I did a CPI adjustment for the Mazda3 hatchback I bought in 2006. Forgot the numbers, but it would be mid-30's now. As with electronics and TV's, cars have actually gotten cheaper.
  • Guy 90's name, does Cavalier count it was around before,during and after the 90's. A Corsica SUV with a Beretta SUV "coupe" counterpart? On the aside if they keep the Durango name they have to keep it in Detroit per the UAW. Change the name and its not a next gen Durango anymore.
  • DM335 Ford could produce a "coupe" version of the Explorer called the Thunderbird. To do it properly, it would take new sheet metal and would need to combine some historical Thunderbird styling cues (large taillamps, metal bird emblems, etc.--no landau bars please). Of course, the market for these sporty SUVS such as the BMW X6 and MB GLE coupe is not large, so this would likely not be a financially-feasible plan.
  • Kevin I traded in my 2022 Civic Si after a year and this is one factor. It is Sep. 24 and still no recall, just a TSB so Honda can sweep it under the rug.This plus a terrible engine/tuning, bad safety tech, missing features, and the most rattling interior I've ever heard ensured I won't be buying another Honda ever again and I've loved Honda since the 2000's. They are not the same brand, or they are the same but cars are more complicated so the cracks really show now. Either way people were also having steering issues with the 10th gen civics also and Honda ignored them. Don't buy a Honda please. Everything about my Si besides the handling felt like a beta car, not a complete product.
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  • Jalop1991 you know, I can't help but remember the Dilbert cartoon where Dilbert commented to the janitor about how Dilbert has two cans under his desk, one for trash and one for recycling, but he's noticed that the janitor who comes around at night has only one large can. This is all smoke and mirrors. Mark my words, we will see stories down the road about place like this taking the recycling fees and dumping the batteries in a pit in some third world country.
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