Next Nissan JUKE teased
First official image of — and debut date for — Nissan’s next-generation small SUV releasedEver since it appeared in 2010 and was launched in Australia in 2013, the Nissan JUKE has divided opinion because of its unique styling.
Now the second-generation, British-designed Nissan JUKE looks set to follow a similar formula.
Last month we were given a glimpse of what the new JUKE will look like courtesy of the first spy shots, and now an official teaser image from Nissan Europe has confirmed it will make its world debut on September 3.
From what we can see of the tightly cropped front-end image, the next Nissan JUKE’s familiar double headlight design will be sleeker than before, with thin-slit LED daytime running lights up top and high/low beam in a round headlight below, plus a re-shaped ‘V-motion’ grille.
Based on the same newly-developed Renault-Nissan CMF-B platform that underpins the new Renault Clio hatch and Captur small SUV, the MkII Nissan JUKE is again expected to be powered by small turbo-petrol engines, with all-wheel drive reserved for more expensive automatic variants.
Replacing the current JUKE’s 1.2- and 1.6-litre turbo-petrol engines will be 1.0-litre three-cylinder and 1.3-litre four-cylinder turbo-petrol engines from Europe’s QASHQAI.
Once again a NISMO RS halo model should eventually be offered, alongside the first plug-in hybrid version.
Australian specifications are a long way off, since the new Nissan JUKE is not expected on sale globally until early 2020.
Unlike in Europe, where it found more than 100,000 customers in a number of years over the past decade, JUKE sales have always been slow in Australia, where registrations are down more than quarter in 2019.
With just 266 in the first half of this year, the Nissan JUKE is a niche seller Down Under compared to the Mitsubishi ASX (10,435 sales), Mazda CX-3 (7756), Honda HR-V (6670), Hyundai Kona (6344), Nissan QASHQAI (5694), Subaru XV (5238), Toyota C-HR (4718), Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross (3828), Suzuki Vitara (2582), Holden Trax (2527), MG ZS (1752), Suzuki Jimny (764), Suzuki Ignis (705), Jeep Compass (521) and even the Haval H2 (323).
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