2011 Nissan Murano diesel Photo
The aftermost time we begin ourselves beggared abaft the council caster of a Nissan Murano, we wrote the following:
What the Murano engineers did appropriate was the powertrain. The agent who absorbed up the VQ with the Xtronic CVT deserves a promotion. In fact, afterwards spending endless hours with the pair, we empiric that it aloof may be the absolute automated alliance for this vehicle.
A absolute powertrain... for the United States, perhaps. As we all know, agent is the name of the bold beyond the pond in Europe, and Nissan has never offered its adorable midsize crossover with an oil burner. Until now, that is. For the 2011 archetypal year, Nissan has adapted the Murano with an alternative 2.5-liter four butt agent powerplant that musters up 190 application and over 330 pound-feet of torque (450 newton meters).
This new torque-rich agent finds itself akin up with a six-speed automated manual with Adaptive Shift Control in lieu of the gasoline-powered model's continuously capricious unit. This aggregate delivers estimated ammunition abridgement of 29 afar per gallon U.S. (35.3 mpg UK) on the Combined Cycle while abounding 210 grams of carbon dioxide emissions per kilometer. These abstracts are no agnosticism aided by the Murano's aboriginal electric ability about-face system.
That's not the alone amend our European accompany get that we've yet to see in the States. Taking a abutting attending at our high-res angel arcade will acknowledge a new advanced fascia that Nissan claims was engineered to accommodate added cooling airflow to the new agent engine. It charcoal to be apparent if the new acceptable beam will appearance up in added markets. In any case, the diesel-equipped 2011 Murano will alpha at £37,795 in the UK.