Nissan’s biggest SUV overhauled as firm revamps line-up with focus on key global markets
Nissan has revealed the new X-Trail SUV as part of a wide-reaching overview of the company’s future strategy, design language and model line-up.
Revealed alongside the new electric Nissan Juke in an event at the company’s Yokohama HQ in Japan, the new X-Trail E-Power is due next year as a rival to the Skoda Kodak, Kia Sorento and Peugeot 5008.
Nissan has only shown the exterior of the car so far, and offered no technical details, but the E-power badging confirms it will feature a version of the company’s full-hybrid powertrain.
This system differs from conventional parallel hybrid technology in that the petrol engine is used purely as a generator to charge a small battery, which then powers the electric motor driving the wheels.
The current-generation X-Trail is already offered with E-Power but is expected to receive the significantly upgraded system that recently made its debut in the smaller Qashqai, for increased power, refinement and efficiency.
The new model is expected to be closely related under the skin to the current X-Trail, which itself has recently been restyled and tweaked as part of a mid-life facelift.
With a targeted launch date of 2027 for the new X-Trail revealed today, and the current model having only launched in the UK in 2022, it is unclear when the new generation will come here. It is possible that the new model could go on sale in the US as the Rogue first, before coming to Europe later – as was the case previously.
While the new car is expected to be closely related underneath, retaining the modular CMF-CD platform used by the current car, it has been extensively redesigned in line with Nissan’s new design hallmarks.
It has a bold new front end, dominated by a distinctive trapezoid-shaped grille and angular LED lighting signatures, while the sides are more heavily creased, and the back end has been made more angular and chunky, too.
More details to come.
