Nissan Qashqai+2

29/08/2008 10:04. “san has put its Qashqai on the rack to create space for a third row of seats. The seven-seat Qashqai+2 gets an extra 135mm in its wheelbase,” // Farmers Guardian

28/08/2008 23:07. Nissan has struck gold with its alternative to a 'normal' hatchback. In the 18 months the weirdly named Qashqai has been on the market the Japanese company has racked up an incredible 250,000 sales.

Now demand is beginning to tail off so the brand has decided to broaden even further the appeal of its SUV-cum-hatchback by providing an extra couple of seats.

If it were Ford or Vauxhall you might have expected an estate version, but Nissan has once again been thinking outside of the box and decided the best way forward was to extend the standard Qashqai... a bit.

Quite simply it has created an MPV without actually comforming to an MPV 'standard'. Only a dyed-in-the-wool car geek could tell it apart from the regular car.

Instead of... // Channel 4 News