SUNDERLAND ’TILIQAI
CLASS: LARGE CROSSOVER // CAR: NISSAN QASHQAI // TASK: RUNNING ERRANDS
As the UK awakes from a COVID-induced slumber, ‘Sunderland to south of Inverness’ is hardly the dream roadtrip you’ve been craving for irresistible travel inspiration. But as the UK car industry also awakes from a COVID-induced slumber, it’s a crucial one. Beaten and bruised by Brexit and a pandemic, it’s been craving good news. And right on cue, Nissan has served it up.
A billion-pound investment is bringing a battery gigafactory to the company’s Wearside plant, creating over 6,000 new jobs and turning Sunderland into a self-proclaimed “world-first EV manufacturing ecosystem”. The car you’re looking at here won’t yet be part of that, but it’s a vital stepping stone – gen three of the crossover OG, the Nissan Qashqai. A car designed, developed and then built in Britain, it was the first high riding hatchback to truly infiltrate the
