Inform us when you’ve heard the one in regards to the automaker that cuts the entry-level trim, elevating the price of entry to a mannequin by just a few thousand. Properly, right here it’s once more, Nissan eliminating the Murano S for the 2024 mannequin 12 months. That leaves the SV, SL, and Platinum, and a roughly $3,000 bounce from the erstwhile S to the brand new lowest rung on the Murano value ladder. The one different alteration is the SL trim getting a powered panoramic roof normal. Pricing for 2024 after the $1,335 vacation spot price, and variations from final 12 months, are:
SV: $39,255 ($760)
SL: $43,215 ($760)
Platinum: $47,625 ($1,120)
The vacation spot cost rising from $1,295 to $1,335 is chargeable for $40 of the distinction.
Each Murano continues to be powered by a 3.5-liter V6 making 260-horsepower and 240 pound-feet of torque. A constantly variable transmission belts out energy from the engine to the entrance wheels in normal kind. Including all-wheel drive to any trim places one other $1,700 on the underside line. Each Murano additionally will get Nissan Security Protect 360, which installs computerized emergency braking with pedestrian detection, computerized high-beam help, blind spot warning, lane departure warning, rear cross-traffic alert and reverse computerized braking. There’s an clever ahead collision warning system as effectively, which Nissan says is a category unique.
The primary Murano era spent 5 years in the marketplace, the second spent six. This era is getting into its tenth mannequin 12 months. That did not cease the crossover from taking high spot within the midsize SUV class of this 12 months’s J.D. Energy Preliminary High quality Survey for the fourth 12 months in a row, and the Murano once more earned Prime Security Decide+ honors from the Insurance coverage Institute for Freeway Security. Inform us when you’ve heard the one about not fixing what ain’t broke.
The solar has to set ultimately, although. Final 12 months, Automotive Information’ future product pipeline part anticipated a remade Murano in for 2024. The up to date timeline sees the midsizer revamped for 2025, Nissan’s plate supposedly full subsequent 12 months with the next-gen Kicks and Armada, the refreshed Frontier and Rogue, an addition to the Z lineup, and the tip of the Titan pickup. The earlier intel figured a brand new Murano would sit on a reworked model of the present platform and would possibly swap the present powerplant for a turbocharged four-cylinder.
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