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All set for Dualis diesel
Nissan receives offi cial
approval to add hi-tech
dCi to Dualis crossover
By MIKE COSTELLO
THE diesel-powered Nissan Dualis
is back on track for Australia, with
fi rst examples expected to arrive in
showrooms around the middle of 2013.
The diesel version is unlikely to be a
substantial volume player in Australia,
and will instead be pitched as a premium
variant with performance and economy
advantages over its petrol sibling.
The oil-burner had been scheduled
to arrive here as a premium alternative
to the existing 102kW/198Nm 2.0-litre
petrol version in 2012, but was promptly
put on the backburner due to heavy
demand in its European heartland.
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confi rm power will come from Nissan’s
fl agship direct-injection 1.6-litre
turbocharged four-cylinder engine –
sourced from alliance partner Renault
– which produces 96kW of power and
320Nm of torque while consuming a
meagre 4.5 litres of diesel per 100km.
This fi gure is almost half that
of the existing petrol, which uses
between 8.2L/100km and 8.5L/100km
depending on the variant.
Other diesel engines available
on the Dualis/Qashqai in Europe
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are 91kW/240Nm 1.5-litre and
110kW/320Nm 2.0-litre units. The
bigger engine, which is only slightly
more powerful than the newer 1.6-litre
unit, is far less effi cient at 7.0L/100km.
However, the 1.6 engine is matched
exclusively to a six-speed manual
gearbox, with no automatic option.
The lack of an automatic will prove
a disadvantage in Australia, which
is traditionally less keen on manual
transmissions than most of Europe.
The dCi engine is available overseas
in both front- and all-wheel-drive
confi gurations, as well as both fi ve-seat
Dualis and seven-seat Dualis +2 body
styles, although it is unclear at this stage
what will comprise the Australian line-up.
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Jan 30, 2013 Page 6
Qashqai dCi
director and CEO Dan Thompson told
GoAuto in 2011, before the diesel
version was postponed, that an oilburning
version of the Dualis +2 would
not be offered.
Sales of the Dualis (or Qashqai, as
it is known elsewhere) were up again
last year in Europe – bucking the trend
as the market as a whole contracted –
and made up more than one third of
Nissan’s total volume in that part of
the world.
Despite continued strong demand for
the model, Nissan Australia has secured
supply from the manufacturing plant in
Sunderland in England.
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