2010 Nissan Juke at Geneva.Nissan today appear for the aboriginal time its all-new baby Crossover, Juke.
JUKE
Designed to action a auspicious another for barter who are arcade in the baby car articulation of the market, but bromidic by the acceptable offerings, Juke is a characteristic aggregate of SUV courage and antic style. Juke will inject some abundant bare adulthood and action into the baby car market.
The accommodation to acquaint the industry's fisrst baby crossover into the baby car bazaar reflects Nissan's aesthetics of arduous conventions in Europe.
| Engine | Power | Fuel | Drive | Transmission |
|---|
| 1.5 dCi | 81kW | Diesel | 2wd | 6-speed manual |
| 1.6i | 86kW | Petrol | 2wd | 5-speed manual |
| 1.6i | 86kW | Petrol | 2wd | Updated XTRONIC CVT |
| 1.6i Turbo | 140kW | Petrol | 2wd | 6-speed manual |
| 1.6i Turbo | 140kW | Petrol | 4wd | XTRONIC CVT M6 |
"In the aftermost bristles years we accept enjoyed cogent advance in a awash European market. This has been accomplished by arduous acceptable patterns and affective abroad from the C and D segments. Instead, we accept pioneered the addition of crossovers. We started with Murano and then, in college volumes, with Qashqai - a car which has far exceeded our expectations. Sales accept exceeded half-a-million in Europe in beneath than 3 years," said Colin Dodge, Executive Vice President.
Juke will be bogus in Europe at Nissan's branch in Sunderland, England, and in Oppama, Japan. In Europe, its assembly alongside the Note bunched ancestors car and Qashqai crossover is the aftereffect of an advance in balance of 60m Euros, which safeguards over 1000 Nissan jobs, and added than 2000 in the accumulation chain.
Sales of Juke will activate in Japan in the summer, with the European and North American barrage alpha in the autumn.
Design
From a architecture standpoint, the lower allocation of Juke is authentic SUV. It combines beefy wheels, advanced tyres, continued arena approval and a able-bodied attitude with a top allocation that is complete sports car, with a aerial waistline, abbreviate visor-like ancillary bottle cartoon and a coupé-style falling roofline. The coupé aftereffect is added accent by the rear doors which accept their handles hidden in the anatomy of the door.
Inside, the sports car affair continues with a driver-focused berth bedeviled by a centre animate architecture aggressive by a motorcycle ammunition tank. Finished in a characteristic aerial appearance colour, the 'bike' animate adds a faculty of fun to the car. Practicality is assured by the rear-opening bear and able baggage breadth with hidden accumulator opportunities.
Speaking at the launch, Nissan's Senior Vice President for Architecture and Chief Creative Officer, Shiro Nakamura, said: "It was our ambition to claiming the conventions. I absolutely anticipate Juke will accompany article altered for barter - article added emotional, energetic, added masculine".
Juke is based on the Renault Nissan Alliance B belvedere and has a 2530mm wheelbase, is 4135mm long, 1765mm advanced and 1570mm tall. On front-wheel drive versions, abeyance is by MacPherson struts at the advanced with a bewilderment arbor at the rear while four-wheel drive models accept a multi-link rear abeyance modelled on the arrangement begin on Qashqai.
The ALL-MODE 4x4-i, is a new development of Nissan's admired cyberbanking all-wheel drive arrangement and now appearance torque-vectoring technology to enhance activity and abate understeer back cornering. As able-bodied agreeable torque advanced to rear - up to a best of 50:50 - it can now be breach from side-to-side beyond the rear axle, too.
Cornering adeptness is added by sending added torque to the alfresco rear wheel, abbreviation understeer. In total, up to 50% of the absolute accessible agent torque can be beatific to either rear wheel. The admittance of this addition is a aboriginal in the baby car articulation - a technology that has, until now, alone been begin on top-of-the-range, exceptional vehicles.
Engines & transmissions
In Europe, three altered engines will be accessible back sales alpha after in the year: one agent and two 1.6-litre petrol units, all absolutely Euro 5 compliant. At the top of the ambit is a new turbocharged petrol agent (MR16DDT) with absolute injection. The agent is one of the best able in its class, developing 140kW (190PS) and 240 Nm. The aggregate of absolute bang with a turbocharger provides the ability and responses accepted from a 2.5-litre agent with the abridgement of a abate engine.
The additional petrol agent is a anew developed adaptation from Nissan's trusted HR-family. Designated HR16DE, the lightweight, low-friction 16-valve assemblage now has a different dual-injection arrangement acceptance bigger metering of the ammunition sprays for bigger agitation and develops 86kW (117 PS).
Finally, the K9K 81kW (110PS) 1.5-litre dCI accepted abuse agent offers accomplished driveability - acknowledgment to its exciting 240 Nm of torque - with acceptable abridgement and emissions.
In agreement of transmissions, the two-wheel drive turbocharged 1.6-litre petrol agent is accessible with a six-speed chiral transmission.
Nissan's XTRONIC CVT transmission, with a six-speed chiral mode, will be accessible on the range-topping all-wheel-drive adaptation of the turbocharged petrol engine.
The artlessly aspirated 1.6-litre petrol is accessible either with a 5-speed chiral or the adapted XTRONIC CVT, while the 1.5-litre agent agent is accessible with a 6-speed manual.
Equipment
Lists of accepted and alternative accessories will be appear nearer the on auction date, but accepted items such as altitude control, covering upholstery, rear appearance camera and Intelligent Key will all be accessible to Juke barter forth with some added abnormal features.
One such is the Nissan Activating Ascendancy System, a axial command and affectation bore which allows the disciplinarian to adapt activating drive settings as able-bodied as accomplish changes to added accessible functions such as altitude control. The display, meanwhile, shows agent and drive accompanying dials and information.
"At Nissan, we are alive adamantine to accompany added amount to the cast through abundant design, quality, and active pleasure. For me, Juke represents so abundant of what Nissan is and will reinforce Nissan's position as a all-around baton of architecture innovation, but additionally as the all-around avant-garde in crossovers," said Shiro Nakamura
NISSAN JUKE: BRINGING THE SMALL CAR MARKET TO LIFE
Kuala Lumpur, 4 November 2009 – Honda Malaysia Sdn Bhd today unveiled its face-lifted Stream RSZ, a sporty multi-purpose vehicle (MPV) with some practical exterior refinements, as well as some aesthetic finishing in the interior. 
Since its official launch in November 2007, Honda Malaysia has sold more than 2,000 units of the 2nd Generation Stream, of which 352 units were Stream RSZ. 
“Stylised with a string of bold and dynamic designs on the body, the refined 7-seater now presents a fresh façade that is sporty, bold, and energetic,” he added. 
The taillight design with black garnish is added to improve visibility for motorists following behind. The side mirrors come with turn lights and new fog lamps have been added to improve the car’s illumination, especially during night driving. 
