Production of the 2017 Nissan Qashqai facelift, revealed at the Geneva show in March has begun in Sunderland, UK.
Europe’s best-selling crossover will be available with ProPILOT autonomous driving capability – which controls the steering, acceleration and braking in a single lane on highways during heavy traffic congestion and high-speed cruising – from spring next year.
Nissan believes that the new tech – plus improvements in design, interior quality and driving performance – will strengthen the Qashqai’s position as Europe’s best-selling crossover.
Made round the clock in Sunderland, the Qashqai is currently also the best-selling vehicle built in Britain, and is exported to around 100 European and global markets. It represents almost one in five of all British-made cars, and is Nissan’s most successful model ever in Europe.
Part of a £53 million investment in Nissan’s UK facilities, extra production capacity introduced last year has enable the Qashqai to be built on both lines in Sunderland. In the decade since the compact crossover was launched in 2007, 2.8 million units have rolled out of the plant, which also produces the Leaf, Juke and Infiniti Q30 and QX30 models. It’s the UK’s biggest car plant ever, with an output of 507,436 units last year.
GALLERY: 2017 Nissan Qashqai facelift
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Nissan rather build it in expensive Britain to be exported to 100 markets. I wonder why Nissan does not build it in Malaysia where supposedly we are the so called Detroit of Asia and labour is cheaper.
Becoz MY dun wan deadend low paying monkey wrench jobs anymore. Were gearing towards hi income jobs nows. Oh but caveman need not apply.
Will never be available here in malaysia by tan chong stupid.
Nice car but does it have what it takes to compete with the more powerful Germans?
Nissan imo is losing shares… Irrelevant in future…Waiting for another take over by the Chinese…
Very nice and unique design. Pls Tan Chong, bring it here
many people asking why Tan Chong not bringing here. Well Tan Chong always sells cheaper….then HRV sales will be hit. Then DRB will susah. See who owns DRB
MITI strictly does not allow TC to bring this car in
Shall make this car cheaper thab HRV. It is bored to see so many HRV on the road these days
Instead ask TC you divert people to ask MITI. TC sell cheaper? Funny.. they did not bring this in just becoz they ara busy “Nismo-ing” all their current model. So stupid pipu will buy it thinking that are new model with more expensive price. Get it? Old model refurbish and get untung lebey? If bring new model where can get untung lebey maa..
For some reason, Tan Chong seems to be spending more resources on Subaru rather than Nissan recently. I wonder if there’s anything amiss – like Renault/Nissan starting their own distribution for example.
Deswaii Nissan Qashqai is 1st world offering.
Only available in SG, UK, Oz..
At times praise, at times bash, split personality Kunta fella
Not split personality, but someones else slipped into his crack
He is commenting from Happy House in Tg Rambutan
Don’t you belong there as well john?
Proton Bayu. Terbaekk
Hitler cars will sui kwan and kwai tai.
Sushis will go for half a million kms trouble free. Dig That
pls don’t impersonate me and create dupes to bash me
Wow! Like a pretty woman in blue bikini. Extremely temptation.
Please bring it to malaysia
What happen to Tan Chong? Why stop bringing new model in?
Tan chong? Still wondering why nobody is buying the almera. With bodykits and massive discounts etc.
Tidur..
Tan chong please bring this to malaysia
OMG. Beautiful, iconiq, sexy and simple. But in malaysia, crap with nissan old model. Rip Nissan Malaysia
Hello Tan Chong….
TanChong is not exploiting NV200 popularity by redistricting it to cargo van only. Should have more variants .
A very good and constructive comment :D They have NV200 people carrier like Freed / Sienta in overseas market but over here NV200 is under commercial only.
Only 5 seats? I’ll pass this
tan chong only prefers to bring in the ugly nissan’s, so this model will not be in….
Why TC not bringing in even though it is very popular in uk and usa
Any TC staff here? Can tell us why TC is always bring rubbish models instead of proper models? And why TC always sloowwwwww to bring in new models? You orang got do work or just sitting around earn gaji buta?
Mana itu someone that says minum teh tarik and all that other bulls? Why TC is not applied this rule, becoz not M isit?
Limited AP. Dare not gamble too much on which model can sell. Play safe, sell pasang local like XTrail. Even Juke pasang in Indon also cannot make it here… scared waste the import. If facing an uncertain market… stay safe philosophy in their mind. Even halo sports car like 370z and GTR is taken off from their web site… perhaps priority given to Infitini?
When is TC going to replace the bread and butter Almera 4 speed conventional auto with new model. To compete you need Jatco Xtronic torque converter with paddle shifters and other safety features.
Don’t forget the temperature gauge. Current dumb trend of B segment and below mostly use the the blue and red idiot lights. Low cost specification. Designer of instrumentation should design what consumer want, not what you think is good enough to cut cost. They have some kind of herd mentality or from the same parts vendors.