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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
4 May 2010

UK PRICES CONFIRMED FOR BEST-EVER NISSAN PATHFINDER AND NAVARA

• Prices start from just £19,807 on the road
• Comprehensive upgrades for Nissan’s tough 4×4 duo
• New 2.5 dCi 190 diesel for more power as standard
• Focus on quality and premium-class features
• ESP now standard
• New V6 diesel engine available from September

Now available to order, the new Pathfinder and Navara offer far more 4×4 for the money with key enhancements of real customer benefit.

Highly competitive pricing starts at £19,807* (on the road) for the Navara Acenta King Cab. Navara Tekna, available only in Double Cab form, costs from £24,389.50 (on the road) for the manual or £25,682 (on the road) for the automatic. Extra standard features on the Navara Acenta include side and curtain airbags, ESP stability control, front fog lights, new seat cloth, additional cabin storage. On the Navara Tekna, pop-up headlight washers, speed limiter, power fold mirrors, MP3 AUX input all come as standard.

The Pathfinder Acenta 2.5 dCi 190 is priced at £28,495 (on the road). The fully equipped Pathfinder Tekna is available with either a 6-speed manual transmission

(£31,595) or a 5-speed automatic (£33,095). Extra standard features on the Pathfinder Acenta include Fine Vision combimeter for a crisp view of the instrument dials, new centre console and lidded storage box and MP3 AUX input. On the Pathfinder Tekna, Nissan Connect Premium HDD, a sat nav infotainment system with 7-inch colour touch screen, comes as standard as well as new 18-inch wheels, headlight washers, speed limiter and new centre console with wood finish.

More performance, more economy, lower emissions
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In its latest guise in both Pathfinder and Navara, the 4-cylinder diesel provides peak power of 190 PS (188 bhp) with peak torque of 450 Nm (332 lb ft), figures which represent an 11% improvement over the previous model. For Navara, this represents class leading power and torque without compromising on fuel consumption or emissions. Either vehicle is now capable of doing 0-62mph in just 10.7 seconds.

Both models have significantly improved performance and fuel economy – fuel consumption improves and CO₂ emissions come down, by an average of 15%. For both Pathfinder and Navara, official combined fuel economy is boosted from the outgoing models’ 28.8mpg to 33.2mpg, while CO₂ is cut from 264g/km to 224g/km. A drop in CO₂ emissions means that Pathfinder drops two tax bands in line with rivals with less power and Navara can include efficiency amongst its long list of attributes.

New look and feel inside and out

A subtle reshaping has resulted in a new bonnet and grille, along with redesigned headlights – now complete with their own pop up washer system (Tekna models only).

Two new body colours are available: Slate and, for the Navara only, Electric Blue.

Inside, enhanced styling embraces new designs, trim and fabrics for the door panels, centre console and seats. There’s a clearer new dashboard display, extra concealed storage tray and reworked switchgear. A simple-to-operate speed limiter has also been incorporated into the cruise control of the Tekna models.

Nissan Connect Premium, a whole new “infotainment” system, replaces both the previous DVD satnav and CD autochanger. The Hard Disk Drive-based system brings state-of-the-art navigation, music storage and playback. The 40 GB satnav offers 3D street-level mapping and extensive POI (points of interest) data. The 9 GB music centre will automatically download and store music from the equivalent of 250 CDs, while also offering full iPod connectivity and a facility for wireless audio streaming using the built-in Bluetooth. The system even includes a reversing camera. And if you get tired of looking backwards you can always pop in a DVD to watch (but only while the vehicle is stationary). 

Nissan Connect Premium is standard on Pathfinder Tekna and optional on Navara Tekna at a cost of just £1,300+VAT, the same price as the considerably simpler DVD satnav of the outgoing model.

New V6 diesel engine

A new direct injection V6 turbodiesel has been developed to deliver even higher levels of performance and capability with strong economy, competitive emissions and class-leading refinement.

Power output is 231 PS while the torque output of 550 Nm leads the class. Better still, peak torque is achieved from as low as 1,750 rpm and is available all the way to 2,500 rpm, while as much as 500 Nm is available from a mere 1,500 rpm. Idle speed is an exceptionally low 650 rpm with none of the vibrations and noise usually associated with a diesel.

Prices for the V6 diesel engine will be announced at a later date with deliveries starting in September.

* Navara basic on the road prices, excluding VAT

• Acenta 2.5dCi 190 King Cab £16,895
• Acenta 2.5dCi 190 Double Cab £18,095
• Tekna 2.5dCi manual Double Cab £20,795
• Tekna 2.5dCi auto Double Cab £21, 895

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Nissan in the UK

• 1 in 3 cars built in the UK is a Nissan
• Nissan Sunderland Plant has a workforce of 4,100
• Micra, Note, Qashqai and Qashqai+2 are all produced at Sunderland Plant
• The new small crossover, Juke, will be produced at Sunderland Plant -  on sale September 2010
• Leaf electric vehicle will be produced in Sunderland Plant from 2013
• UK is Nissan’s biggest market in Europe
• Over 80 per cent of production is exported to 45 markets worldwide
• Nissan’s Sunderland Plant has been named as the biggest UK car plant for the past 12 years
• Sunderland Plant won a Queen’s Award for Export in 2009, fourth received since plant opened in 1986
• The plant built its 5 millionth car in June 2008
• Sunderland Plant’s 2009 calendar year volume totalled 338,150 units
• Over 80 per cent of all cars sold in the UK in 2009 were built in Sunderland Plant
• Nissan’s European design centre is located in Paddington, London and employs around 50 people
• Nissan’s European Technical Centre is based in Cranfield, Bedfordshire and employs around 750 people
• Nissan’s UK Sales & Marketing operation is based in Rickmansworth and employs around 170 people