Nissan today announced a brand new compact SUV for India and also shared a teaser image, hinting at its design. It will launched around September 2020.
Nissan India announced today that they are going to bring a brand new compact SUV to the Indian market. They also shared the first teaser image of this upcoming SUV at an event in New Delhi, today. It’s going to be a sub-four meter SUV and it will be launched in India around September 2020. It will rival the likes of the updated Tata Nexon, the Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza petrol, Mahindra’s XUV300, the Hyundai Venue and the Ford EcoSport.
As can be seen in the teaser image, the new Nissan compact SUV will get a crossover-ish design, much like the Kicks, rather than a more upright design as seen on the Brezza and the Venue. The SUV will also get a floating roof design and dual-tone paint options. You can also expect some design cues from Nissan’s newest crossover in the international market, the Juke, to feature on this new SUV for India.
Interestingly, this SUV will be sharing its underpinnings with the upcoming Renault HBC SUV. The Renault HBC will be based on the CMF-A platform (which also underpins the Renault Triber) and that too is scheduled to be launched in late 2020. We expect this SUV to be powered by a new 1.0-litre three-cylinder turbo-petrol engine which will come mated to either a 5-speed manual gearbox or an AMT. Nissan will not offer a diesel engine with this SUV. ‘
Nissan hasn’t shared much details about this upcoming SUV but we expect it will share a few features and creature comforts from other Nissan cars and we also expect it to come with connected car technology.
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Previously, we had also reported that Nissan is considering to phase out the Datsun brand in India considering that the Datsun is not doing great business in India. However, Nissan has confirmed at the event today that Datsun will continue to operate in India. Nissan India also announced today that the Nissan brand will be one of the two “umbrella brands” that will operate in India, with Nissan being the primary brand and the Datsun brand being held a “little behind”.
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Rakesh Srivastava, managing director, Nissan Motor India, said, “We would like to increase our commitment to the Indian market and we look forward to making Nissan the primary brand in the Indian market with multiple new premium products to going to come under the Nissan brand.” He added that, “Datsun, however, will continue to be part of the entire product portfolio and we will strengthen the value proposition of the Datsun products and will bring features for instance, the CVT automatic transmission as one of the technologies for which we find good opportunity in India.”
