When everybody will get into wool peacoats, the man within the Irish fisherman’s sweater appears new and intriguing. In recent times, blocky, rugged, outdoorsy-looking model is the wool peacoat of SUVs. The 2025 Nissan Murano has opted for a chunky knit.
Nissan’s 2-row midsize SUV will get an entire redesign from the wheels up for 2025, and it pushes again towards that development with a curvy new form. It replaces the usual V6 of the final era with a extra fuel-efficient turbocharged 4-cylinder and goes again to an automated transmission with gears fairly than a constantly variable automated transmission (CVT).
Nissan hasn’t introduced pricing for the 2025 Murano. The 2024 version begins at $40,130 (together with a compulsory $1,390 supply payment). Nonetheless, it was final resigned in 2014 and shares not a single bolt with this model. We count on a worth enhance to account for almost a decade of know-how advances.
Borrows a Theme From its Little Brother
The 2025 Murano bears little resemblance to most of its competitors, which has opted for laborious angles and chunky shapes in recent times. If something, it appears like a bigger model of Nissan’s lately redesigned Kicks subcompact SUV.
A curving greenhouse – nearly sufficient to qualify as a Euro-style SUV coupe just like the Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe or Audi Q5 Sportback mannequin – arcs over a excessive beltline. Horizontal strakes dominate a delicate grille – one other zig in a yr filled with oversize-grille-zags.
Strains of LEDs function daytime operating lights and appear to increase the strains of the grille to wrap round into massive air curtains.
Within the rear, a large mild bar consists of many small vertical stripes. The tailpipes are hidden, nearly implying that it’s electrical.
Ethereal Cabin With Three-Tone Choices
Its dashboard has three huge horizontal surfaces that mix into one another like striations in a canyon wall. That permits designers to make use of three colours on the dashboard, giving it visible motion. Nissan says three shade schemes will probably be provided, all “impressed by the inimitable mild high quality of golden hour — simply earlier than sundown — skilled alongside the Californian coast.”
The bottom stage incorporates piezoelectric contact controls — one thing that hasn’t all the time labored effectively in automotive design. However they resemble these discovered within the Nissan Ariya electrical SUV, which work fairly effectively in our expertise. They deal with local weather management.
Most different capabilities appear to run by touchscreens.
A pair of screens mounted collectively — an nearly ubiquitous design development in new automobiles — appears like one. Every has a 12.3-inch floor (measured diagonally). They run Android Auto and Apple CarPlay wirelessly.
Nissan says Murano consumers can have the choice of massaging seats for the primary time. Photographs present semi-aniline leather-based seats, discovered on the Platinum trim, wrapped in a two-tone scheme.
“Rear occupants are handled to accessible rear door sunshades and heated rear seats,” the corporate says. Maybe extra considerably, rear seats undertake Nissan’s Zero Gravity seating design. This ergonomic design, primarily based on NASA analysis, has constantly produced entrance seats our editors love.
The cabin takes numerous inspiration from the Ariya’s however with one vital distinction. As an electrical automobile (EV), the Ariya lacks a transmission hump down the middle of the cabin. That lends the house a pure, ethereal really feel. We’re not clear that the identical strategy will work as effectively within the Murano, the place an actual transmission divides driver from passenger. We’ll discover out once we get the possibility to check the automotive.
Turbocharged 4-cylinder Engine, 9-speed Computerized Transmission
The 2024 Murano on vendor tons as we speak is likely one of the final mainstream midsize SUVs to hold an ordinary V6. The automotive business has largely switched to turbocharged 4-cylinder engines for midsize autos within the decade because the mannequin’s final redesign.
Nissan will observe go well with. For 2025, the Murano will get a turbo 4-cylinder making 241 horsepower and 260 lb-ft of torque. That’s 19 fewer horsepower however 20 extra models of torque in comparison with the outgoing mannequin, exhibiting why the turbocharged 4-cylinder has develop into the business’s engine of alternative. Engineers can get extra low-end energy from a smaller and presumably extra fuel-efficient engine as we speak. Nissan hasn’t launched gasoline financial system estimates but.
Energy goes by a 9-speed automated transmission to both the entrance wheels or all 4 when geared up with all-wheel drive.
“To assist enhance trip and dealing with, the brand new Murano adopts frequency delicate dampers in its suspension and switches to electrical energy steering,” Nissan says.
It ought to present loads of energy and clean operation for household and commuter use. However Nissan notes a tow score of simply 1,500 kilos — mild for a midsize SUV.
Superior Driver Aids
Nissan’s ProPilot Help, which might speed up, brake, and steer the automobile in site visitors if you happen to maintain your fingers on the wheel and your eyes on the street, is commonplace. Increased trim ranges embrace a extra superior system that makes use of the navigation system “to proactively alter velocity forward of curves, primarily based on information concerning the automobile’s deliberate route.”
A brand new digital camera system ought to make parking easier. Nissan explains, “accessible 3D Clever Round View Monitor expands on the earlier mannequin’s hen’s-eye view by permitting the consumer to pick from considered one of eight digital vantage factors ‘round’ the automobile.”
The 2025 Nissan Murano is about to go on sale early subsequent yr.