Nissan Terrano SUV brochure released

Nissan India has uploaded the brochure of the Terrano onto the official website of the SUV. In terms of new information, the brochure doesn't have much to add save for a couple of images revealing the leather clad interiors of the SUV. The Terrano will be available in six colours and will be built at the Renault-Nissan joint manufacturing facility at Oragadam, off Chennai. The Terrano is likely to share the assembly line with the Renault Duster, the SUV on which the former is badge engineered on. 

Pre-bookings of the SUV have already commenced, and an official launch with the price announcement of the different variants will happen in the next few weeks. The Terrano, according to Nissan India's managing director Mr Kenichiro Yomura, will be the last badge engineered product to be sold in India. Going forward, Nissan India hopes to launch products that are highly differentiated from those sold by alliance partner Renault.

The diesel variants of the Terrano get the 1.5 liter K9K turbo diesel motor in 85 PS-200 Nm and 110 PS-248 Nm tunes while the sole petrol variant of the SUV will be powered by the 1.6 liter, 104 PS-140 Nm petrol engine. Features on the top end variants of the Terrano will include leather seats, wood finish on the dashboard and interiors, 16 inch machined alloy wheels, reverse parking sensors, rear AC unit, ABS+EBD, twin airbags and a six speed manual gearbox.

The Terrano will be front wheel driven and no plans for a four wheel drive variant exist at the moment. Looks wise, the Nissan Terrano is quite different from the Renault Duster in terms of the front and rear, both of which get major revisions. Viewed side-on, the Terrano does look strikingly similar to the Duster. The interiors of the Terrano are decidedly more premium than that of the Duster, perhaps a factor that'll allow Nissan to quote a higher price tag for the Terrano.