It seems that Nissan India is upto something as much recently the company has registered the Magnite name for its upcoming compact SUV with the controller general of patents design and trademarks which comes under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
The patent was submitted last month and is likely to be of its upcoming compact SUV as the company has no other prototypes or launched planned for the domestic market. Additionally, it should also be noted that Nissan had the right to the ‘Datsun Magnite’ earlier as well and with the company planning to dissolve the Datsun brand it could be possible that Nissan could lunch the Magnite under the Nissan’s name.
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The much talked about Nissan compact SUV is likely to share its underpinnings with the Renault Triber which makes use of the CMF-A+ platform. The exact same architecture is also rumoured to be used in Renault’s upcoming SUV codenamed HBC.
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Coming to the mechanical front, the new Nissan Magnite compact SUV will get its power from a 1.0-litre TCe turbo-petrol unit capable of generating 99hp with 160Nm of peak torque and will be offered with either a 6-speed manual or a 6-speed CVT option.
However, the timeline for the launch has not been specified but we can expect the new compact SUV to break its cover in India by the second half of 2020.
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