Nissan decided to add yet another sporty vehicle in its lineup – a special version of its 150PS 2.0-liter dCi engine X-Trail. The Japanese automaker calls this the Arctix Sports Adventure and this model provides more specifications and has an automatic transmission. But what’s really good about it is that its price is close to the cost of the standard manual version Nissan X-Trail.

The Nissan Arctix Sports Adventure is your perfect partner during this winter season because of the Nissan parts equipped in it designed solely for the winter season. Why, you ask? It is because this Japanese SUV beauty is equipped with a fuel efficient 2.0 dCi engine producing 150PS of power. Also, this engine is mated to a six-speed automatic transmission. Thus, the new Nissan Arctix Sports Adventure X-Trail is your ideal partner to long distance journeys.

Aside from its notable engine and automatic transmission combination, it is equipped with an all-Mode-I 4×4 drive system as well. This system is designed to keep the vehicle leveled at all times despite changing weather conditions. Also, to combat poor visibility in the event of pouring rain or fog, one can switch the vehicle’s front fog lights and eXtreme roof rail lights. With these lighting components at full blast, one will be able to see a much clearer road ahead. A cruise control is installed and there are cool silver snowstorm side steps to guide one as he steps out of the vehicle.

The capacity of the storage space located just behind the rear seats is 603 liters. Besides that, just beneath the rear seats is a double floor trunk section that ahs a pull out drawer where one can store smaller items.

It proves itself as a great winter season vehicle as it has a ski hatch located between the armrest on the rear seat where one can store his skis. One can also opt to clip his ski into an accessory ski roof rack fitted between the standards eXtreme roof rails.

Other equipment in the Arctix Sports Adventure include panoramic sunroof, privacy glass, 17-inch alloy wheels, CD autochanger with six speakers, climate control air conditioning, rain sensing wipers, and Bluetooth phone integration. The paint finish options include Pearl White, Thundercloud, Twilight Grey, Ebisu Black, Atlas Blue and Chilli Pepper Red.

Nissan fans should brace themselves for the arrival of the new and improved X-trail.

The Japanese automaker has come up with ways to entice new followers to the midsize sports utility vehicle (SUV), as well as to keep the old ones.

The Nissan X-Trail is a top-selling SUV, with 70,000 units sold since its introduction six years ago.

Improved would be an understatement to the new version of the X-Trail. The general appearance of the new version underwent only little changes. Although Nissan retained its muscular look, the X-Trail now has become more spacious, easier on the pocket, more powerful, and better equipped.

Carsguide.com notes the excellent visibility of the refined SUV, thanks to the Nissan parts such as its sloping bonnet and headlight markers. It also has a lower boot floor due to the modified suspension.

The X-Trail offers better Nissan parts and features inside, adding to passenger comfort. The armrests are padded up. There are six cup holders, four of which can be heated or cooled by the vehicle’s air conditioning system.

The upgraded version is powered by a 2.5-liter engine.

As for its all-wheel drive system, Nissan has provided an option between two-wheel, automatic all-wheel mode, or four-wheel drive lock. The driver has to select one of them by making a dial on the center console.

The Nissan X-Trail, which will be available on sale starting November 1, costs $31,990 for the base ST trim and $35,990 for the ST-L.

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More and more people, specifically in Korea, are becoming more practical with regards to buying vehicles. Instead of going for the luxury cars, Koreans eye vehicle models that carry tag prices along the middle range. With such trend, Japanese automaker Nissan shifts gears, which is away from its expensive Infiniti models, and markets more its not so pricey vehicles like Nissan Murano and Nissan Altima in Korea.

Last Tuesday, Nissan Motors stated that the sport utility vehicle Murano and the medium-built sedan Altima will pioneer the company’s campaign in introducing more affordable models in Korea. Collin Dodge, who is the senior vice president for overseas market operations of Nissan headed Tuesday’s announcement held in South Korea’s capital Seoul. Geared with well-designed and well-engineered Nissan Parts are going to push the Murano and Altima to become Koreans’ top automobile picks. Included in the Nissan pool of money-saving models are the X-trial, Rogue, and Quashqui, which are all equipped with quality Nissan Parts.

Aside from the inexpensive offerings of Nissan, the Japanese automaker also continuous to innovate and develop green cars like the electric car Pivo 2, which was unveiled in its homeland auto show. The most unique Nissan Parts of the Pivo 2 are the revolving cabin and wheels.

Along with Nissan, Toyota and Deawoo Motors are also going to launch the affordable models in the East Asian country.

In preparation for the launch of the all new X-Trail on the 1^st of September this year, the Japanese automaker Nissan has informed of a tempting £700 consumer offer rising the value of the Aventura eXplorer and the Sport eXpedition models together wih a low rate finance offer of 5.9 percent APR. This will be available across the entire range.

Normally, it would cost an additional of around £1700 to add kits like the DVD satellite navigation system with voice recognition, color rear parking camera, chrome door handles and intelligent key to the Sport or a DVD satellite navigation system with voice recognition, color rear parking camera, and xenon headlights to the Aventura, but with the offer of Nissan, the cost is reduced to £1000. This indicates that the cost of the Sport eXpedition 2.5 now starts at £21,695 and the Aventura eXplorer from £23,695 for the 2.5 petrol engine. If owners want a diesel engine for their vehicle, then they just have to add £800 for the 150PS 2.0dCi.

Investing in the purchase of the all new X-Trail has been made easier and more appealing with the offer of a low interest rate of 5.9 percent APR if it was bought through Nissan’s ‘Preferences.’ This just means that the payments for the TREK 2.0dCi can begin as low as £259 a month will be paid for 36 months based on the low deposit rat of 23 percent.

For an additional £20 a month, the highly equipped Sport can be driven. This model has a lot of features to offer over the Trek like the all-mode 4×4-i which is the intelligent version of the 4×4 system.[This system does not only transfers 2wd to 4wd when the conditions sense that it is necessary but now also has Electronic Stability Control (ESP), Uphill Start Support (USS) and Downhill Drive Support (DDS). The Sport also has 17” alloys, front fog lamps, panoramic sunroof, cruise control, privacy glass, speed sensing auto lock, rain sensing wipers, auto headlamps and a 6 x CD auto-changer with 6 speakers.

The all new X-Trail could be ordered now, together with bothe these offer, from any delaers of Nissan.

Nissan seems to be proving to the world that it is indeed committed on safeguarding the environment as the Japanese automaker made two announcements on Monday regarding their diesel technology commitment. Nissan announced that they will be introducing a new clean diesel technology to be incorporated in their X-Trail SUV in Japan. This will be launched in Japan on the fall season of 2008. They also said that their new clean diesel technology has a great potential in meeting California’s emission standard for super-ultralow-emission vehicles, which is one of the hardest green rating to reach in the world.

Nissan has not yet fully released the details on their X-Trail Diesel model but they said that they’ll be disclosing its performance and specifications when its already close to the time of its introduction. However, it has not yet on Nissan’s plans to offer this to the American market. But they did say that the X-Trails diesel will be based on the “M9R engine co-developed with Alliance-partner Renault.” They also said that it will be using high-performance catalysts and engine management technologies. Nissan said, “This clean diesel engine is being developed to lower exhaust gas emissions to levels comparable to those of new emissions standards in Japan.”

The second announcement that Nissan made is that their new clean diesel technology will “be able to achieve cleaner diesel emissions in future vehicles that will meet the stringent SULEV standards set by the state of California,” as the automaker also considers their US consumers to be of great importance. Nissan released a statement saying, “Nissan plans to do further research and development of the clean diesel technology for commercial applications in its future products.”

Nissan said that they plan to use three devices which are the high-performance catalysts, advanced engine control systems and a “modulated-kinetic combustion” in order to decrease the diesel emissions.

They said that their initial plan is not to sell this soon-to-be new model in the United States but considering that they put great importance to their US consumers, the US auto market could still hope to drive this X-Trail diesel model.

Reports have it that Dongfeng Nissan is planning on launching two new models which are the Nissan SUV Qashgai and the X-Trail. These two will be produced in the joint venture of the Japanese automaker in 2008.

NISSAN QASHGAI

NISSAN X-TRAIL

These two models which are newly-developed have already been released in the auto market of European countries and already experienced great sales. These two new models are actually different SUV segment models which have different market prices. The company will rename these models once they are produced in China.

Nissan’s plan for the Qashgai to be introduced by the beginning of next year. They also plan to launch its debut at the Guangzhou Auto Show with its price costing 150,000 yuan.

By the second half of the year, Nissan plans on launching their X-Trail. Exporting these two models from overseas market will now be ceased because the production is now localized.

China lacks 2.5-liter China-made engines and so these two models will be powered by original engines that were produced by overseas market.

The Qashgai was launched in February and since then it has already sold 45,000 of its units in the overseas market. But its production capacity wasn’t able to meet the demands of the market and so Nissan transferred some of its production to their other plants in Japan.

Another plan of Dongfeng Nissan is to introduce other models as well such as the Maxima and Murano.

The sales of Nissan’s hot products still haven’t reached their expected sales for the first half of this year but although that is the case, Dongfeng Nissan plans on boosting up its annual sales target to 400,000 units.