Nissan Juke Nismo review (14/08/2013)

RECENT Nissan successes have been built largely on the unbelievable popularity of the Qashqai and, to be honest, I am quite convinced that when the company originally conceived and built that car it was hopeful rather than expectant about its sales potential.

Nissan were working in the dark with the Qashqai concept, particularly as the car was essentially a completely new endeavour — saloon-car-as-SUV, if you will — and in producing it, they unwittingly invented a whole new market segment, the crossover market.

The Qashqai turned out to be a massive worldwide phenomenon and outsold the car it replaced — the conventional Primera — by such a ridiculous degree that the company realised the car buying public was not the ultra conservative behemoth the motor industry believed it to be.