The 2016 Nissan Sentra’s 130-hp engine is pleasantly muted while accelerating moderately and cruising at freeway speeds. The CVT is one of the better offerings on the market, as there’s little of the stomach-churning “rubber-band” effect during acceleration that’s common to many transmissions of this type. Partly, that’s down to Nissan’s simulated stepped-shifting, which approximates the feel of a traditional automatic transmission with discrete gears. Just don’t be in a hurry, because with so little power under the hood, the Sentra never is.