2023 Nissan X-TRAIL e-POWER - Modern and Muscular SUV!

Nissan X-Trail review What is it? It’s the only seven-seat electrified SUV in its segment. Quite what segment that is exactly seems open to debate, though: as rivals, Nissan cites Toyota’s RAV4 - which it used as a benchmark for this fourth-generation X-Trail - as well as the likes of the Skoda Kodiaq, Mazda CX-5 and VW Tiguan Allspace. We’d chuck the Hyundai Santa Fe, Toyota Highlander and Kia Sorento into that mix too, although Nissan reckons they’re too large to count as direct contenders. The X-Trail has always suffered something of an identity crisis: it arrived in the UK in 2001 as a tall, gently-rufty-tufty estate car with extra ground clearance, all-wheel drive and salt-of-the-earth aspirations. Trouble is, Subaru’s courageous Forester Turbo had already had its towel on that sun-lounger since 1998 and was, frankly, more fun. Understandably Nissan decided the X-Trail might be better off positioned as something of a Qashqai with knobs on, and by its third generation it had the