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With the increasing proportion of domestic SUV market, more and more car companies are making plans for the introduction of new SUV models. A few days ago, Dongfeng Nissan passenger car company will also introduce a large and medium-sized SUV to achieve the expansion of the product array.

Dongfeng Nissan passenger car Company of Hubei Dongfeng Automobile Co., Ltd. is making a tender announcement for the "P42Q" project, according to documents on the relevant bidding website. According to the information released by insiders, "P42Q" is the product code of Nissan's medium-and large-scale SUV Pathfinder, which means that the model will be introduced and made in China.

Nissan Pathfinder is a medium-and large-sized SUV model, which is translated as Pathfinder in Chinese and is of the same class as Volkswagen Tuen and Ford Explorer. So far, it has gone through four generations of models, and it has also appeared in the domestic market as a parallel import, introducing a 3.5L V6 version with an official price of 388000 yuan respectively. However, due to the small amount of stock, so that very few people know.

With the gradual rise of the SUV market, it seems that relying only on the best-selling compact SUV can no longer meet the expansion plans of car companies, and with the introduction of the current new domestic policy, national six emissions, Nissan, which sells full-size SUV with a number of parallel imports, is subject to a lot of restrictions. therefore, by realizing the domestic production of medium and large-scale SUV, Nissan may be able to get the favor of consumers with certain choices of parallel imports.

At present, Dongfeng Nissan's domestic SUV models have included five layouts ranging from small-sized SUV to medium-sized SUV, but medium-and large-scale SUV has not yet been launched. Compared with the 5-seat design of Loulan, perhaps Pathfinder can be defined as the business practical big seven. Not only can we compete for today's mainstream seven-seat SUV models such as Henlanda and Ruijie, but also for more high-end models such as Volkswagen Tuang and explorers, as to which market target is more likely to depend on the domestic pricing of the model.

Although the current Pathfinder is nearing the end of its life cycle, a new generation of models have also been tested overseas, so the domestic market will eventually achieve the launch of the new Qijun model, and Dongfeng Nissan will also usher in the arrival of a new Pathfinder pathfinder.

According to the size of the current model, the length, width and height are 5009mm*1961mm*1783mm, and the wheelbase is 2900mm, which is longer than Ford Explorer, Henland and Ruijie, so it also gets better interior space.

It is understood that the new Pathfinder will continue to use the cash platform to build, and Loulan, Teana and other cars, using horizontal front-drive power layout form, and provide four-wheel-drive models to choose from. There is no official information on power, and overseas media speculate that the new car will be equipped with the same 2.0T VC-TURBO engine as Teana, with more power parameters than the Tuen 2.0T model.

Nissan, as one of the three swordsmen in Japan, although the Qijun model is a relatively backward product in the current domestic SUV market, the market performance is still good, which also shows that the Nissan brand still has a lot of competitiveness in the domestic market. Due to the confusion of the overall positioning of the Loulan model, so that the model is popular but not popular, how Nissan will position the Pathfinder will also affect the performance of the model in the domestic market in the future.

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