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Top Gear Best SUV - Nissan QASHQAI

turbox submitted on 01/10/2008 Official AutoSpies Timestamp: 12:11 PM
from: ucarmagazine.com

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Top Gear Best SUV - Nissan QASHQAI

Nissan’s QASHQAI has picked up another gong, rounding off a great debut year for the compact crossover whose all round qualities have captured customers’ imaginations. The BBC Top Gear magazine team have named it best SUV in their 2007 Awards issue, on sale now.

They liked its sensible pricing and the great visibility made possible by its raised driving position. On the road they were impressed by the frugal and perky 1.5 dCi engine, the car’s agility and composure, light but accurate steering, supple ride and a body free from excessive roll.

But what shone through above everything else was the QASHQAI’s reassurance, as the team explain:
“The QASHQAI is your mum’s big hug outside the nursery school gates, it’s your dad palming you a tenner on your way out to the pub, it’s your girlfriend rubbing your head when you’ve been flattened by the flu. This is a car you can rely upon, that’ll take care of you, that makes you feel like the world is just that bit more manageable.”

The magazine was particularly taken by the solid and classy interior: “A car like this, duty bound to be aggressively bothered by children and wet dogs all its life, needs to be hard-wearing, but a modicum of luxury remains crucial. The QASHQAI really does seem to have it all covered.”

The Top Gear magazine viewpoint endorses Nissan’s own customer feedback which shows that buyers like the QASHQAI for bringing something new to the market, and for its strong, distinctive design which sits between a traditional hatchback style and a more robust elevated SUV shape. This is a fusion of the best of both worlds. Fusion is the idea and QASHQAI is the result.

And buyers have consistently cited its premium quality interior as a key factor in changing brands to Nissan.

Top Gear magazine speculates that QASHQAI’s appeal may lie in the unique cultural symbiosis that gave rise to it – Japanese know-how, the London based design studio, engineering development in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, and produced at the “holier than thou” Sunderland factory. “It’s small wonder the QASHQAI seems to slot so well into the British psyche.”

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r15mohd - 1/10/2008 1:01:49 PM

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ticket to bankrupthood with the RS4??? you're kidding right?

if you wanted to be serious...maybe vehicles like the corolla, jetta, mb c-class, 3-series, tundra, odyssey, sienna,etc...you know vehicles that sell more than 3000 untis a yr

and with the intro of the cts/malibu...america is gaining back some grounds

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1995e34 - 1/10/2008 2:36:49 PM

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looks good for a small suv.

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adamsaf723 - 1/10/2008 12:51:47 PM

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I'm not familiar with the British market... is that the European Murano or the Rogue?

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DaHarder - 1/10/2008 4:59:28 PM

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It's sized very similar to the ROUGE, but looks worlds better IMO...

The Rouge looks rather awkward from every angle, but the killer is the 'upsweep' of the side windows that starts way up at the bottom of the B-pillar, making the entire vehicle look a bit 'off'.

The Qashqai has a much more 'traditional' side window design, and is all the better looking for it.

Additionally: Qashiqai are a Turkic-speaking tribal confederation of clans in Iran. Qashqais mainly live in the provinces of Fars, Khuzestan and southern Isfahan, but especially around the city of Shiraz in Fars.

Rupert - 1/10/2008 6:54:18 PMView My AgentSpace

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It's the size of a Corolla, and the size down from say a CR-V.

STJ88 - 1/10/2008 12:53:26 PM

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Its the european Rogue, the EU murano is the same as the US.

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Porschinator - 1/10/2008 1:28:31 PM

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Another dumb comment by Guff. To be expected. Ummm yeah in your world the RS4 is the issue with US Auto makes. It has nothing to do with having to pay billions to retired works. OK makes sense 8-) US auto comps will turn out fine.

GM is already on the right path after negotiating with UAW and restructuring no matter what silly fan boys say. Ford to follow. Chrysler...well sales are up. My wish is that people with American out look like Guff never make it to US soil.

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w209w114 - 1/10/2008 3:04:45 PMView My AgentSpace

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Nice car, Ugly name!

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StickShiftCamry - 1/10/2008 6:04:55 PM

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OMG 1.5 lol. What can u do with that? When u get a rental in EU u get some small diesel and its so expensive. Over here u get a nice 5.7 V8 300C. Any car feels like a dream compared to those small EU diesel rental cars. I asked if they had V6 Impala atleast, (I know they don' have those).

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Rupert - 1/10/2008 6:53:19 PMView My AgentSpace

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The 15 may be slow, but it's good and torquey, plus gets great MPG. It gets 52 combined in imperial MPG, in US mpg about 44-46.
My car is a 1.4 petrol, but it never feels underpowered.

AMGC55 - 1/11/2008 2:25:01 AM

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not the ML63!!! haha jk

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