Nissan Qashqai

This is the catalogue record of the Nissan Qashqai, one of 318 models Nissan has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 2006. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Nissan Qashqai properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Audi AG Audi R8, the Kia Kia Sportage, the Bugatti Bugatti Veyron — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Nissan Qashqai reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 1.6 L Nissan HR engine#HR16DE / HR16DE Straight-four engine / I4 / 2.0 L Nissan MR engine#MR20DE / MR20DE I4 / Diesel engine / Diesel: / 1.5 L Renault K-T; drive goes through 5/6-speed Manual transmission / manual / 6-speed Automatic transmission / automatic / Continuously variable transmission / CVT; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Nissan story

Within Nissan's own catalogue the Nissan Qashqai sits alongside the Nissan N6, the Nissan N7, the Nissan NX8, the DeltaWing. The record names the alt = White Nissan Qashqai (J12) as its predecessor and the Nissan Juke (Dualis, Japan) / Nissan X-Trail (Qashqai+2) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Darryl Scriven, Masaki Aikawa and Patrick Reimer (pre-facelift). Assembly is recorded at United Kingdom: Sunderland (Nissan Motor Manufacturing UK / NMUK, Europe and Turkey domestic market models only) / Japan: Kanda, Fukuoka (Japanese domestic market / JDM (Nissan Dua.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Nissan Qashqai was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.