New Nissan Qashqai in 2014
Nissan is close to the end of the development of the new Qashqai Bestseller car. The car will be shown in the Geneva Motor Show in March 2013, and already in 2014 they will begin to sell a car, BFM reports. Andy Palmer (Vice President of Nissan Corporation) told the details about the new car.
The new generation of the car will retain standard dimensions: the length of the car will be 4.3 m, height – 1.6 m, and width – 1.8 m. Changes in the car will affect the good quality of Qashqai, including the interior of the car: in the company everyone wants to improve the quality of finishing materials. According to Palmer, Nissan has a scale with which the quality, interior and appearance of cars are analyzed. The company wants to ensure that Nissan by the number of points in this scale will become a favorite and this is quite real.
Nissan Qashqai is a car model that was first made in Europe. The first performance of this model took place in one of the France car dealerships in 2006. Already in 2008. The Qashqai lineup was expanded by the new version of +2, which was very good: the appearance of the front and back parts of the car changed, and noise insulation was improved.
Qashqai has become a real hit in Europe, especially in Russia. The car began to beat the salesability records in our country and became one of the most popular crossovers. About 35 thousand Nissan Qashqai were sold in the first year.
Regarding the technical filling, very little is very known about it. The new generation should become more environmentally friendly and more economical. In particular, developers want to use less voluminous engines with turbocharges. It is expected that the engine with a volume of 1.6 liters at the moment will be replaced by a 1.2-liter engine. Also, the design of the car will be very similar to the Hi-Cross model, which was represented in the Geneva Motor Show of this year.
Earlier it was assumed that the car will become a new prototype of the latest generation of stylish Nissan X-Trail crossovers, in particular, due to large dimensions. At the same time, of course, no one forbids the Japanese in the new stylistics to create the following generation of Qashqai as well as more gabit X-Trail.