The car that every family loves and comes back for
Credit: David Shepherd
It’s a tool, of course; for the family. Like a Dyson, a Kenwood or a Ninja Foodi, Nissan’s Qashqai SUV is a machine that has the purpose of moving people and stuff. Less Sport Utility and more Swiss army charabanc bound for the supermarket, school, summer holiday, scouts, or saxophone and swimming lessons… Nissan sells it as such and it has done very well thank you over the last 14 years and two generations.
Yet there’s more to buying a machine than just a financial transaction, despite what you might have been told by a strange alliance of car makers, greens and politicians. There’s pride of ownership; the Qashqai, which starts at £23,535, costs too much not to feel that. And even a family SUV crossover like this partially symbolises and embodies our fragile freedoms of travel and association so restricted in the last 15 months.
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