I took a new $24,000 Nissan Sentra SV on a first drive to find out if this basic yet stylish sedan is a good deal — here's the verdict

I spent a few hours driving the new 2020 Nissan Sentra SV around Manhattan.
At $23,860, the compact sedan was an attractive, well-optioned set of wheels.
Nissan has kept it simple with the eighth generation of this stalwart sedan, with only one engine available: a 149-horsepower four-cylinder.
My first impressions of the new Sentra were solid. Nissan has done a good job of making this car easy to buy and easy to drive.
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The Nissan Sentra has been with us for nearly four decades, arriving in the US in the early 1980s and establishing itself as an appealing, entry-level four-door in the years after. But the seventh generation had been around since 2013 , and although it received a 2016 refresh, the design was getting on in years even if it continued to post respectable sales .

Enter the all-new, eighth-generation Sentra, featuring a revamp for 2020 that strives to make it an undemanding yet distinctive choice in a segment that's supposed to be losing out to crossover SUV, but that still has the attention of the major Japanese manufacturers in the US.

Nissan invited me to check out the new Sentra for a few hours in Manhattan, which is admittedly not the ideal motoring environment (I currently have a test car that I'm subjecting to a more strenuous review). Still, it didn't take long to determine that the Sentra's update was thought through in all the right ways.

Read on to see how the first drive went:

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