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Tom White. The leather seats and soft-touch points are genuinely plush and comfortable, and the panoramic glass roof adds a nice premium air to the cabin on sunny days. It is a fixed roof, however, and does not open. The wing mirrors have LED indicators, and are both heated and auto-folding. The multimedia screen is showing its age. The absence of up-to-date phone connectivity is a shame.
Nissan's design language is almost too consistent across its SUV line-up. Helping set the Ti apart from the rest of the range is the gigantic inch alloy wheels with a two-tone milled finish, which really fill those raised SUV arches. The Vivid Blue colour looks good, and the Ti is identified by the massive inch wheels.
Inside, things look luxurious thanks to a solid helping of leather on the doors, seats, centre console and steering wheel. It also feels a bit more spacious than some competitors, but the modern illusion is quickly broken by the old-fashioned centre stack. And aside from some useful shortcut buttons down the sides, the gloss-plastic insert in which it lives looks a little ill-fitting considering the rest of the matte surfaces in the cabin. The cabin certainly feels airy and luxurious, thanks in part to the massive sunroof.
The instrument binnacle consists of a colour screen and two traditional dial clusters. While hardly moving design forward in this area, it has huge and legible fonts and presents all the important information well.
The updated three-spoke steering wheel looks and feels much better than the pre-facelift model. Normally, this is a boon for SUV buyers, as it helps with visibility. However, the huge sunroof in the Ti lowers the roof level, making it problematically close to my head. Headroom feels a little tight, but there's plenty of storage areas up front. That being said, I found leg and arm room in the cabin to be fantastic, and there was always a nice and soft surface to rest your elbows on - which can hardly be said for something like the Hyundai Kona.
There is also a heap of handy, rugged storage spaces around the cabin, including deep, useful cupholders in the doors and transmission tunnel. There is also a rather large two-tiered storage area with USB ports, aux input and cable-management in the centre console, and a deep trench under the air conditioning controls which hosts a volt power source, and so is very suitable for phones and wallets.
I found the backseat to have great leg and headroom despite the sunroof, and the seats back there are as plush as they are up the front.
Rear passengers benefit from two cupholders but no trenches in the doors, there's a weird little storage nook on the back of the console box, and leather-bound pockets on the back of both front seats. Like many other small-SUVs, there are no vents back here. The lack of a coupe-style roof line like many competitors means the boot, at L, is one of the biggest in the class, and it comes with a couple of tricks.
The boot has removable floor panels and starts from L.
The boot floor is variable, for example, courtesy of some removable floor panels, and can provide an impressive and almost completely level L with them in and the rear seats down. There's an excellent amount of space with the seats down. Our Qashqai Ti has a 2. All Qashqais are front-wheel-drive only. The Qashqai's engine and transmission aren't exactly exciting, but they get the job done. The 2. After abandoning the mainstream hatchback sectors and euthanasing the unloved Almera and Primera, Nissan struck on a bold path with the Qashqai a decade ago. The gamble paid off. The company has sold 2.
We're now firmly into the Mk2's lifecycle and it's time to give some mid-life facelift love. The improvements for the model year add to the gentle all-round polish given in summer - with no dramatic restyling deemed necessary. Think of marginal gains in the world of international sport: Handy when the QQ finds itself in fourth spot on the UK's bestsellers' chart in the first 11 months of with some 47, sold. But then they didn't need to be. The interior changes wrought for had more wide-reaching though still subtle changes, with a greater focus on quality materials.
Customers have been consistently asking for posher fit and finish - and Nissan has tried to do just that with the Qashqai upgrades over the years. So Nissan claims.
Browse Nissan Qashqai for sale in our classifieds section. It's one of the cars we're testing here, in admittedly toppy 1. What with sister brand Renault fitting 20s to the Scenic, the race to giant alloy wheels shows no signs of abating Just wait until tyre replacement time, is all we'll say. Eighteens can be fitted as a no-cost option and it's one we'd recommend.
It's just a shame that the Qashqai did without Apple CarPlay and Android Auto before the model year; you'll have to plug your phone in to listen to your own tunes on the go on pre-facelift models. It does feel smarter than the plastic-fest of yore. In fairness, the Mk1 had pretty shockingly cheap plastics, while the Mk2 moved up a gear in Mind you, the Nissan Qashqai is nicely finished for a mass-market product and there's a decent squidge to most plastics you'll see and prod in the front.
The NissanConnect touchscreen is a bit on the small side, but works simply and effectively, with revisions to the interface to make it feel more familiar to smartphone users see below. The new Qashqai is a practical proposition, too. Front-seat passengers will be very comfy in the new front seats better foam padding, a longer squab and reprofiled side support and there's plenty of space. Clamber into the back and room is a little bit more generous thanks to the contours of the front pews. Just watch out for a little less headroom if you order the full-length panoramic glass roof.
This bathes the cabin in a light, airy ambience - your kids will love the skyview above. The QQ has just two rows of seats here, and the rear bench is fixed. Boot space?
There is also a rather large two-tiered storage area with USB ports, aux input and cable-management in the centre console, and a deep trench under the air conditioning controls which hosts a volt power source, and so is very suitable for phones and wallets. Think of marginal gains in the world of international sport: Image 4 of The boot has removable floor panels and starts from L. The improvements for the model year add to the gentle all-round polish given in summer - with no dramatic restyling deemed necessary. Nissan Qashqai review:
But the Qashqai retains its nifty false boot floor, which can be used to separate the loadbay into different zones - handy if you're trying to stop bags of shopping rolling around or want to segregate damp sports clothes, say. So what of the fuel consumption? Our time with the car, two-up and covering a mix of heavy traffic and twisty, undulating country roads, resulted in an indicated Impressive given the conditions, and a figure which makes the official Diesel options include an updated version of the evergreen 1.
Like on the Renault Kadjar , it gains an AdBlue system to reduce emissions as does the 1. The 1. Also new for the latest round of updates is the infotainment system. It looks the same on the face of it, but the new processor is vastly more powerful than the old one, so loading times are significantly improved. The screen is much more responsive to touch, too, allowing smartphone-style pinch and swiping motions to zoom in and out of map pages and scroll through menus.
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