The good wife wants a new car. The mates want to go camping off-road. The missus needs space, visibility and ease of drive, as well as being economical. The mates want you to keep up when they’re going off the beaten track. Its gotta be affordable, so what’s a guy to do?
Well, the Nissan X-Trail seems to fit the bill for all of the above, but is it a pretender? How does it really fare off road, especially in diesel guise?
In reading several reports on the previous X-Trail, the All-Mode all-wheel-drive system overheated if severely pushed, and reverted back to...