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“Nissan Sunderland Plant is marking the start of production of the third generation Qashqai with a renewed pledge to inspire future generations of manufacturing talent. Every North East child offered a place on a Nissan Skills Foundation event, as Nissan celebrates 35 years of production in the UK. Following a £400m investment, the latest version of the segment-defining crossover is now rolling off the plant's production Line One, as the plant celebrates 35 years of manufacturing in the UK.” - Dave

Nissan starts production of new Qashqai in Sunderland and offers skills experience to every schoolchild in North East England : https://uk.nissannews.com/en-GB/release ... st-england

Local TV announcement that they start production today on the new model

We could have this as a caption competition.

"Look mummy what we made at school today!"

"Children used to get sent down the mines - now they're sent to the car factory!"

"Illegal numberplates spotted in Sunderland"


Or to be PC:

"A commentary on the lack of ethnic diversity in the North East!"

Really promising!
Would mean there is no delay, not even because of chip shortage!
I wonder whether Nissan will produce the premiere edition cars before a.o. Tekna plus.
Would like to know how many pre-orders have to be fulfilled!

At times I think the sat nav in mine was built by a mob of primary school children.

New write up attached.

Gel wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 6:38 am New write up attached.

Qashqai review DT.pdf

Thanks - some interesting opinions there:

"There’s pride of ownership; the Qashqai, which starts at £23,535, costs too much not to feel that."

?????

"...even a family SUV crossover like this partially symbolises and embodies our fragile freedoms of travel and association so restricted in the last 15 months"

?????

"Although it’s roughly the same size as the outgoing model, the new Qashqai has 20mm more in the wheelbase, an additional 35mm in length, 25mm in the height and 32mm in the width."

... so it's bigger then!

"[the CVT] has a new “stepped” ratio adjustment to reduce the irritating “rubber-band effect” of the engine revs bearing little relation to road speed under hard acceleration"

Hardly new...

"... Tekna + adds 20in alloys, swaps the other models’ twist-beam rear suspension for a multi-link independent set-up ..."

We haven't heard that elsewhere have we?

"... moving the heated seat controls from the back of the centre console to the heater control panel where they are more easily found"

I never found the existing position "difficult" !!!

"... thicker windows in the rear doors ..."

We haven't heard that elsewhere have we?

"... the largest diameter tyres are loquacious, booming and rumbling on rough road surfaces and crashing through sharp-edged bumps and holes ..."

No change there then.

EDIT

"The rear seats fold 60/40 per cent on to their bases to give a completely flat load bed with 1,447 litres of space. This is exactly what buyers expect, yet so few car makers are able to achieve it."

Now I've found a picture - no it isn't "completely flat"

What a good read Gel, thank you for sharing !

@gloucester. My personal (!) impression about this article is that the author wanted to be very positive at all costs, as most of the previewers/testers seems to try to do (maybe to avoid being blacklisted?).
I think we will have to wait until this new QQ is actually driven (for quite some time) and reviewed/tested by QQ J12 owners before we get a better picture of it.
I fully agree some things in these reviews are arguably questionable.

Another glowing write up this morning:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/money/cars/ ... -week.html

QaiFan wrote: ↑Thu Jun 17, 2021 7:22 am What a good read Gel, thank you for sharing !

@gloucester. My personal (!) impression about this article is that the author wanted to be very positive at all costs, as most of the previewers/testers seems to try to do (maybe to avoid being blacklisted?).
I think we will have to wait until this new QQ is actually driven (for quite some time) and reviewed/tested by QQ J12 owners before we get a better picture of it.
I fully agree some things in these reviews are arguably questionable.

Well this part wasn't particularly good?

The ride quality isn’t a disaster, though. It doesn’t toss your head from side to side, but
there is certainly a slight shimmy over regular bumps. Yet the suspension is quite soft.
You can feel the dampers dialling out the undulations and absorbing the shocks, and it
leans slightly into a turn and then moves quite gracefully over the long bumps on the
country roads of my test drive.
The steering is over-assisted in the standard mode and unconvincingly firmed up in
Sport, but it’s accurate enough. The brakes are strong, but I would have preferred a bit
more bite at the top of the pedal’s travel, though to be fair the test car had only covered
447 miles when I was handed the keys so it’s early days for these brakes.