Very interesting. Subscribed to this thread!

Some people are scared of the CVT's because of failures particularly in older Nissans, which happened before the CVT-7 model which is what the Mirage uses. Nissan ended up extending warranties on their CVT models to ease consumer fears.

We haven't heard of any Mirages with CVT failures. Although some people describe abrupt shifting in/out of neutral from the idle-neutral feature.