Re:GM's Super Cruise: Driving a 2018 Cadillac CT6 with a Ful...
by namdnay on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:25AM
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The Rogue is the US "x-trail", not the US Qashqai! It's one size up
(but indeed they seem to have followed the godawful Murano styling on the US Rogue/XTrail)
Re:GM's Super Cruise: Driving a 2018 Cadillac CT6 with a Ful...
by gambiting on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:29AM
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It is nowadays - 2017 Nissan Rogue is the European X-Trail. It wasn't the case in 2013 - it was just a qashqai. I don't think the previous gen X-Trail was even available in the US at all.
This is particularly visible on the inside:
2013 Rogue:
http://st.motortrend.com/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/2013-Nissa...
2013 Qashqai:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HF9QSCoWifs/UcL9LU3c7FI/AAAAAAAAQE...
I happen to own a 2013 Nissan X-Trail and it's a completely different vehicle, it's a blocky offroader, not an inflated Qashqai like it is nowadays.
Re:GM's Super Cruise: Driving a 2018 Cadillac CT6 with a Ful...
by namdnay on Thursday September 28, 2017 @09:35AM
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Ah I think it's the "2017 Rogue Sport" which is a Qashqai. The Rogue remains an X-Trail (which has indeed been watered down since the 08MY offroad style)
funny that they would follow the same pattern as JLR, releasing a "sport" version which is actually based on a lower category - See 1st gen Range Sport
Case in point:
2013 Nissan Qashqai, as seen in EU:
https://www.ledperf.co.uk/images/models/W500/qashqai_nissan_...
2013 Nissan Rogue(so Qashqai adjusted for the American market):
https://cars.usnews.com/static/images/Auto/izmo/353341/2013_...
It's the exact same car. Yet the American version gets this attrocious front, the overgrown grille and these lights that don't really go anywhere and that don't look like anything.
Again, this is my European taste speaking - if any Americans read this and they find the Rogue attractive but the Qashqai horrible - please, please tell me why it is so.