The facelifted Nissan Teana has just been introduced in Thailand, five years after the third-generation D-segment sedan was originally launched in the Land of Smiles. It may have arrived to the ASEAN region a good three years after the nip and tuck was applied to the car’s twin, the Altima, in the United States – but hey, you know what they say, better late than never.
With the update, the Teana gets the new front end shared with the Altima, incorporating the company’s now-standard V-motion grille and boomerang-shaped LED headlights and daytime running lights. However, the rear end remains identical to outgoing model, doing away with the Altima’s wider tail lights and redesigned bumper. The high-spec alloy wheels now measure 18 inches in diameter and come in a new two-tone design.
The interior remains untouched, but Nissan has seen fit to equip the Teana with driver’s seat memory on all but the base 2.0XE model. Also untouched are the engines – a 2.0 litre MR20DE naturally-aspirated four-cylinder petrol making 136 PS at 5,600 rpm and 190 Nm at 4,400 rpm, as well as a 2.5 litre QR25DE four-pot producing 173 PS at 6,000 rpm and 234 Nm at 4,000 rpm. Both are paired to an Xtronic CVT, as before.
Safety-wise, the Teana gets lane departure warning, blind spot monitoring and a 360-degree Around View Monitor with Moving Object Detection on the 2.0XL, 2.0XL Navi and 2.5XV Navi, joining the standard six airbags, ABS with EBD and brake assist and stability control.
Pricing starts at 1,336,000 baht (RM169,200) for the 2.0XE, rising up to 1,426,000 baht (RM180,600) for the 2.0XL, 1,476,000 baht (RM186,900) for the 2.0XL Navi with a seven-inch touchscreen navigation system. The 2.5XV Navi tops out at 1,674,000 baht (RM212,000).
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Nissan what a crap!! They just launch all new altima in US & nissan has a cheek to milk ASEAN market with older outgoing model??? What kind of double standard mentality is this??
Reviving from the dead
190 nm at 4400rpm is so yesterday
Wow why suddenly D segment cars are getting more and more expensive in Asian countries while its getting cheaper and cheaper in ang moh countries
When they bring it to a Malaysian shore, ETCM will even rip off.
UMW & ETCM seems to take Malaysians for a ride for years.
Kindly compare with the specs which is offered elsewhere and the price they are paying is even lesser.
Atleast give us proper specs for the price which Malaysians gonna pay.
But Malaysians should be wise enough to gauge whether to support the New Teana and ETCM as a whole.
VW and Peugeot screwing us in the name of continental cars and the cost of service is so high with poor reliability. And we Malaysians who wants to own Continental cars at Japanese price are conned by this players.
Where else Nissan & Toyota has been take Malaysians for ride by offering below par specs for a high price.
What can we say? Who is taking advantage here? Whether it is the car manufacturers or distributors or the government police/governance?
Whether it is the previous government or the current government but eventually the people are victimised.
The price that we are paying is way high for the value we receive for certain brands.
Not to compare vehicle prices with other countries but by comparing the price offered to a Malaysians vs the specs offered in our shore.
As Malaysians we’re united and shown the previous government the way out, so we Malaysians can also show the car manufacturers/ distributors and the current government that we Malaysians has realised and kindly please treat us well.
Malaysians have to give a clear message to this kind of car manufacturers/distributors not to take Malaysians for granted and provide us the value for money paid for the products being offered to us.
I wrote this not to offend anyone. Kindly please consider my thoughts.
Thanks.
meh
The ‘pretiest’ steering wheel…
Start from now onward we should not complain Malaysia car is expensive anymore. Seriously don’t understand why Thailand car getting more and more expensive. Thai people earning is still behind Malaysian and yet they are paying higher car price and petrol, about RM3.80 per litre for ron95. Yes it is because of MYR depreciate but even if it were 1:10, base model Teana RM136k is still expensive consider that Thai earning is lower than us.
Gud gov lucky Msians , cheaper car tax here.
Dear Tan Chong,
Please skip this model. Please bring us the 2019 Teana/Altima!
Wow! This is impressively LAME!
Looks good and adventurous.
Can be a strong competitor with the other bog boys…..
What !!!!!! The new teana already launched, they only start selling this facelift??? Hopefully our Bolehland will not follow this step. Too sad
We will get the next gen Teana in 2023
Nissan just released a new completely redesigned Altima and they release a facelift? What???
This car is so long in the tooth
The new Altima in the US has a variable compression engine and a new design…we probably get that in 2021….
And yet the US just got the all-new model? No wonder Nissan’s global sales are tanking – they treat some markets like they’re idiots! What an arrogant company. Next time you’re looking for a new car: choose something that isn’t a Nissan, Renault, Infiniti or Mitsubishi.
Haha Tan Chong is so behind, they will never bring this in.. always selling old models and using cheap tricks to make their dinosaur models sellable.. not to mention their salesmen damn LC too.
Someone tell me, what happened to Nissan? Do they know what year/decade it is? Do they know what “compete” means? Do they not know old people will disappear and more young people make up the population now? Why are their products so bad now?
This is truly a Facelift with the only change on the new front end. Nissan is worse than Toyota, at least the Camry rides on the new platform.
Hope we will get full altima look n interior……. If not TCM.. Don’t ever sell old teana here…. Am I dreaming?
oh boy.. still the same ol engine and chasis perhaps.
must have been fear of uncertainty in automotive industry force the management to take a wait and see stance. maybe it’s the way to keep price low and see out weak market anticipation
In overseas the Teana uses the new 2.0 VC Turbo. It gives 248bhp.
Tan Chong has applied to bring this down but rejected by MITI because then, nobody will buy Camry or Accord at all
And guess who owns Honda and Toyota? Both GLC DRB and UMW
Government cannot remain neutral and must protek protek protek their own cash cow brands
Same like previous 60 years of corruption. Nothing has changed.
You got proof?
Model ini bolek balik Tongsan
design is horrendous. the engine performance at only a mere 136hp is a joke. cars with the same cc and NA is developing 20 to 25 horsepower more.
Meanwhile back at ETCM HQ, the typewriters are claterring, the fax machine is ringing while the big boss is busy reading his copy of NST & The Star.
And their product planners are busy watching Bruce Lee on their black and white TVs.
TanChong don’t always blame ur SA cannot sell Nissan car , the problem is ur marketing management got problem , never bring new model to Malaysia .
Given the chance, ETCM William want to continue selling the 130Y Sunny.
tan chong brought in the new serena, and a lot of exciting niche models from renault and subaru. the problem is gov dont want tan chong to compete directly withe drb and umw.
banyak mahal le
Oh No! please go away… I need Nissan Qashqai over here… come on Tan Chong! Nice steering wheel still…haaahaaa!