New Nissan Pulsar to launch in Europe – first non-SUV to ditch ‘kamishimo’ grille for new ‘V-motion’ face

pulsar-teaser-image

Nissan will be unveiling a C-segment hatchback for the European market next week, and it will be called the Nissan Pulsar. Yes, a Nissan Pulsar hatch exists already.

The current Nissan Pulsar that is sold in countries like Thailand and Australia (but not Europe) is basically a hatchback version of the Nissan Sylphy (recently launched in Malaysia) that was first introduced in 2011.

Nissan Pulsar DIG Turbo-20

Most buyers will be looking for a Pulsar with either a 1.6 litre or 1.8 litre normally aspirated engine, but there’s even a ‘hot hatch’ Pulsar DIG Turbo powered by a 190 horsepower, 240 Nm 1.6 litre turbocharged engine, mated to a CVT gearbox.

Although many publications are saying this is a completely new model for Europe, given Nissan’s recent trend in merging model line-ups instead of separating them by region, we think there is also the possibility that this could be the 2011 Pulsar given a significant facelift.

The teaser image above shows that the new Pulsar gets the new ‘V-motion’ grille that has already appeared on new Nissan SUVs such as the X-Trail, Qashqai and Murano.

The new V-motion grille is the new face of Nissan, replacing the outgoing ‘kamishimo’ trapezoid grille on cars like the current Pulsar, Sylphy, Teana and Almera.

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Comments

  • kzm - malaysia maju! on May 17, 2014 at 11:30 am

    Maju lah Malaysia. Thanks to the NAP, we are now getting cheap cars and our cars are now getting cheaper and cheaper.

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    • Vader on May 17, 2014 at 4:08 pm

      Sarcastic or what? Don’t get u..
      There are some dump and dumper still try to argue and claim that car price already reduced by comparing current low spec car (eg previous city s grade and current one) and also CKD car (eg previous CBU ASX and current CKD ASX).
      Pls don’t pretend so ignorant, what G promised is reduced the tax % and applied to ALL cars in bolehland!

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    • setscrew on May 17, 2014 at 8:06 pm

      Cheap car price? You sounds like a BN macai lah…..

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  • powershot on May 17, 2014 at 12:03 pm

    nissan is on a roll

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  • pulSar on May 17, 2014 at 12:50 pm

    the car looks nice!

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  • Pak cik on May 17, 2014 at 1:32 pm

    It has a Nose!

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  • not bad nissan..not bad..

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  • great! let’s get this new design in 2020!

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  • Teana just launched in Malaysia using the ‘kamishimo’ trapezoid grille. So fast considered “old” design?

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  • Dream off guys, slowpoke TCM won’t bring these car over here.

    If have please wait for another 3 years.

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  • They gonna launch it in Europe.. Hhmm tht makes malaysia will launch it in 2 years time

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  • albag on May 18, 2014 at 12:01 am

    LOL we just got Sylphy and Teana launched with ‘older’ grill… lucunya

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    • Nevermind..malaysian elite alwiz think forward! If you dont like old grille then buy a new one and use the old one as BBQ grille LOL.

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