Start with what the Nissan Kait is: a 5-door SUV with Petrol engine, built from 2025 to 2026, in the decade the industry is turning electric. What it meant takes a little longer.
The background
The Nissan Kait is a subcompact crossover SUV manufactured by the Japanese carmaker Nissan. It is based on the P15 Kicks, with updated styling but keeps the underpinnings of the Kicks. Production has started in Brazil in December 2025, with exports planned to 20 countries.
The engineering
The engine is Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to NNNN –. Drive goes through a CVT. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2620 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Nissan line-up the Nissan Kait has a clear place: it replaced the Nissan Kicks Play (Brazil); the factory was Resende, Rio de Janeiro. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Tesla Cybertruck, the BYD Sealion 06, the Kia PV5. Its Nissan stablemates include the Nissan N6 and the Nissan N7.