Nissan Terrano PHEV Off-Road Concept
Americans knew it as the Pathfinder: a boxy, body-on-frame truck built for Baja runs and rocky two-tracks before Nissan followed the rest of the industry toward comfort-focused, car-based crossovers in the 2000s. The Terrano nameplate went out of production shortly after and stayed that way for two decades. Now Nissan has revived it at Auto China as a plug-in hybrid off-roader with production confirmed within the year. The expected powertrain pairs a turbocharged 1.5-liter four-cylinder with an electric motor for a combined 402 horsepower and 590 lb-ft of torque, fed by a 33-kWh battery with a real-world electric range of around 55 to 60 miles. The body is upright and unapologetically boxy, riding on Mickey Thompson Baja Legend MTZ tires with thick black wheel arch cladding, a tailgate-mounted spare, a side ladder, a full-width roof light bar, and auxiliary yellow pods on the A-pillars that read straight off a Dakar support truck. A five-link rear suspension and electromechanical rear diff lock round out the hardware. It heads to Latin America, the Middle East, and ASEAN markets. North America gets the Xterra instead.
