Hey! I'm buying a Nissan Micra K10 but I can't figure out the year, can anyone help me? I've excluded 1982-1985 but I'm wondering if it's 1986, 1987 or 1988?

Do you have access to the VIN?

Sounds like a disguised quiz

I have no information about it.

I hope you don't buy that for too much money

I'm not but I'm worried if it's... "the identity-less Micra, the micra that never was!" No papers on registry in it. only VIN left... but i don't got that info atm.

Actually this is a Nissan March, not a Micra. Notice that the reverse lights are in the bumper and not the upper taillight clusters plus the fact that what remains of the left-hand badge seems to read March instead of Micra.

Up until now, I had not idea Marches were sold in LHD, where is this from? You're right, however, that this is a 1986-88. An earlier March would've had the same taillights as a Micra, with reverse lights at the bottom, and more notably the swallowtail rear panel - as an unplanned homage to the Golf I.

Wow! Thank you so much. I NEVER thought this could be an March, the only thing that made it weird to me were the rear-lights. They were so odd, like some kind of weird, unknown Asian marketed type of the Micra.
So it never was a "Micra" it's a Japanese version?

It looks like a japanese version, but it's LHD, and those bumpers seem quite thick. And now I realise you're from Iceland, where cars from different specs (european, USA, and so on) coexist.

Does nothing outside or inside provide a clue to the origin of this March ? Some text on the dashboard, a sticker inside the fuel filler cap, something like that.

Were they sold in Canada?

Yes, but under the Micra name, with side markers and the like. Here, it's like an LHD Japan-spec car, and those didn't exist after 1978, weel before the March/Micra was born.

Before coming back for 2015, our Micra was like this no changes except a 5-door for 1987, and lights requirements ( CHMSL , DRL ) . One of my friend's mom used to have one, which my friend nicknamed " Microbe "