Nissan hopes Japan will embrace diesel powered X-Trail SUV

The preferred fuel choice across Europe has been diesel for many years, it has been slow in the US but they are starting to embrace diesel as they have faced fuel price increases over the past few months. However drivers in Japan have never embraced diesel, but Nissan hopes to change that with the introduction of the X-Trail SUV which is diesel powered.

The Nissan X-Trail SUV Diesel is expected to hit the market sometime halfway through 2008, this will be the first diesel powered Japanese passenger car sold locally since the 1990s. The Mercedes-Benz E320 CDI is the only diesel passenger vehicle in Japan at the moment, but with the introduction of the Nissan X-Trail SUV, and Honda promising diesel vehicles sometime in 2009, the Japanese could be set for a diesel renaissance.

Diesel did not hit it off well in Japan as the exhaust levels of toxic nitrogen oxides and other pollutants were very high. Now we have clean diesel which should help the comeback of diesel in Japan.

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