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Nissan Qashqai
What Car? UK
|Ocotber 2024
A nose job and upgraded tech keep this hugely popular family SUV up to date On sale Now Price from £30,135
CHANCES ARE, IF you try to think back to when family SUVs started to really take off in popularity, the car that springs to mind is the Nissan Qashqai. It's the car widely credited with starting the family SUV trend more than a decade ago, inspiring countless rivals on the way, not least the Kia Sportage, Seat Ateca, Skoda Karoq and Volvo XC40.
In an effort to keep these rivals at bay, the Qashqai has been facelifted, gaining a much larger front grille, sleeker headlights and clear lenses for the rear lights, along with a few new paint colours and wheel designs. Entry-level Visia trim has been dropped, but a new midspec N-Design version has been added, and that's what we're testing here.
This story is from the Ocotber 2024 edition of What Car? UK.
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