Can you guess what it is yet?

IT’S time to begin 2010 with something car manufacturers love - one of those awful teaser shots which tell you absolutely nothing!

This is the new Nissan Juke, apparently, but the really rather rubbish picture they’ve just sent me says almost nothing about it. You can see it’s got a rakish roofline and a quirky set of lights up front, but what about the bottom half? Does it have wheels or skis? Until it’s officially unveiled, nobody knows for sure.

Teaser shots are hugely annoying because they do exactly what they say on the tin; they tease. Among my favourites was a series of badly drawn lines which TVR once pretended gave a glimpse of the T350C, and a slightly Dali-esque image which Bentley released shortly before it launched the Continental GT.

But Nissan seems particularly good at it; several years ago a teaser of the 350Z showing a mysterious metallic stripe had the motoring mags stumped. Only when the car came to light a year later did they work out the strange shape was…a door handle.

Cars, no matter how secretive they are, should get shown in their full glory. Unless it’s a Porsche Cayenne.