All New Nissan Qashqai Revealed
Try saying that ten times fast
By Imthishan Giado
No, I haven’t gone senile and posted the X-Trail story again. Yes, the Nissan crossover with the unpronounceable name is back with an all-new look that so closely apes its bigger X-Trail cousin, you might well confuse one for the other at first glance.
The Qashqai never really caught on here but elsewhere it’s wildly, massively successful selling more than a million units worldwide. The refreshed Qashqai (o how I hate typing this repeatedly, I’m not doing the review) sports the corporate look and will come in both front-wheel and all-wheel drive variants, alongside a host of new safety technology including Front Collision Avoidance, Blind Spot Assist, Intelligent Parking Assist, Driver Attention Support and Traffic Sign Recognition (which reads signs and tells you the speed, in case your eyes have stopped functioning, in which case you really shouldn’t be driving).
Engines for Europe are all-turbo: a 115bhp 1.2-litre four, 150bhp 1.6 and a couple of diesels that I won’t even bother writing about because they’ll never be sold here. Expect the fours to make the trip hooked as usual to the now-traditional CVT transmission.
