Nissan Terra

Among the 318 Nissan entries in the MotorJury library, the Nissan Terra holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2018. 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 Terra properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. 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 Tesla Tesla Model 3, the Porsche Porsche Taycan, the Tesla Tesla Model Y — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Nissan Terra reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / Petrol: / 2.5 L Nissan QR engine#QR25DE / QR25DE Straight-four engine / I4 / Diesel engine / Diesel: / 2.3 L Nissan YS engine / YS23DDTT twin-turbo I4 / 2; quoted output is 134 kW (2.5L petrol) / 123 kW (2.5L petrol, Middle East) / 140 kW (2.3L, 2.5L diesel); kerb weight is recorded at predecessor = Nissan Pathfinder#R51 / Nissan Pathfinder (R51) / Nissan Xterra / Nissan Xterra/Paladin; drive goes through 6-speed Manual transmission / manual / Jatco 7-speed Automatic transmission / automatic; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive layout / Front-engine, rear-wheel-drive / Front-engine, four-wheel-drive layout / 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 Terra sits alongside the Nissan N6, the Nissan N7, the Nissan NX8, the DeltaWing. The record names the Nissan Pathfinder#R51 / Nissan Pathfinder (R51) / Nissan Xterra / Nissan Xterra/Paladin as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Design is credited to Masato Takahashi / Masanobu Ino. Assembly is recorded at Thailand: Samut Prakan (Nissan Motor Thailand) / China: Zhengzhou (Dongfeng Motor Co., Ltd. / Dongfeng Nissan) / Iran: Jolfa (Ista Motor Aras Co., Ltd. / Leo MX-8) / Iran: Abyek (M.

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

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Nissan Terra was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.