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The new Qashqai will be unveiled before the end of the year as Nissan gears up to replace its most successful model of recent years.
The car effectively invented the crossover segment now populated by a large number of models such as the Peugeot 3008, Hyundai ix35 and Skoda Yeti, as well as smaller versions including Nissan's own Leaf and the Vauxhall Mokka.
A new second-generation Qashqai will be on sale in the UK next February, although in only one bodystyle this time as the firm is dispensing with the seven-seat Qashqai+2 that is part of the current line-up.
Nissan is expecting to migrate buyers looking for seven-seat practicality over to the new X-trail model that's coming in the second half of next year.
The success of the current Qashqai can be illustrated by the fact that 2013 looks like being the model's biggest sales year in fleet.
"The life-cycle sales curve is a straight line. In the final year of sales we will sell more than any other in fleet, which defies logic," Nissan's corporate sales boss Barry Beeston told BusinessCar.
"We found that when we introduced the 119g/km 1.6 dCi it made quite a difference and enabled us to maintain our trajectory as the cycle aged."
That, and the smaller Juke recently being cut to 109g/km are, Beeston said, examples of Nissan's increased attention on the UK corporate sector from an international perspective.
"As an organisation we were, going back 10 years, very retail-focused, but we're now globally very tuned into the marketplace and any opportunity to improve technology with a focus on CO2 and whole-life cost," he explained.
"What we've done as a global organisation is seen corporate sales as a developing area and we're understanding now that to interact you need to meet this criteria."
Another example of this is, he said, the new Note supermini that goes on sale on 1 October, which Beeston claims will have a 13% whole-life cost improvement over its predecessor, thanks to a combination of getting emissions down to 99g/km, as well as RV, insurance and SMR improvements.
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