Nissan Juke News

Nissan has revealed a re-booted version of its Juke small SUV, as a purely electric vehicle.The next-generation Juke is described by Nissan as a core model for the European market and was revealed as part of Nissan’s new long-term direction strategy announcement.This announcement also saw the introduction of the next-generation X-Trail mid-size and Rogue small SUVs, both primarily as e-Power hybrid models.Aside from its size-category, the new Juke is a total departure from the previous model, debuting a new distinct design direction which separates it from the rest of the mainline Nissan range.Up front, this includes blocky light fittings and an LED light bar with an illuminated Nissan logo, as well as chunky rhomboid design motifs. Powertrain details are yet to be announced and the interior is yet to be shown.The Juke will live alongside the next-generation Leaf in Nissan’s fully electric line-up, although as they overlap significantly with the Leaf morphing into a crossover, both cars won’t be offered in every market.To that end, Nissan confirmed the new-generation Juke would not be offered in Australia, following its earlier announcement that the existing combustion car will be culled from the line-up.The outgoing Renault Captur-based Juke was one of the least popular options in the small SUV segment, moving just 90 units year-to-date, outselling only the Alfa Romeo Junior and Jeep Avenger in its category.It seems Australia may not even receive the next-generation Leaf for the time being either, with the brand also confirming it has put its plans to introduce the next-gen crossover to our market on hold as Nissan struggles for competitiveness of its electric models in the face of cut-price Chinese rivals.The new Leaf wasn’t all-out cancelled, with the car being described to CarsGuide previously as “indefinitely delayed.”According to the brand the scaling-back of its EV ambitions in Australia is to focus on hybridising its passenger car line-up, where it says 75 per cent of all registrations are, in order to “future-proof” its local line-up.However, with the nameplates being cancelled, this sees Nissan’s line-up reduced to six models for the time being, including the Qashqai small SUV, X-Trail mid-sizer, Patrol off-roader, Navara ute, Ariya mid-size electric SUV and the Z sports car.The future may have more in store for Nissan as it globally re-focuses, and brings more of a spotlight on its thriving range of Chinese joint-venture models, which are imminently earmarked for export across the world.This includes the N7 sedan, but more interestingly for Australia - the Frontier Pro plug-in hybrid ute as an electrified alternative to the Navara and NX8 large SUV, which could serve as an electric and hybrid replacement for the outgoing Pathfinder.Nissan is embattled on two fronts in Australia - facing hefty fines under the recently-introduced new vehicle efficiency standard (NVES) which burdens it with up to $10.76 million in potential fines if it doesn’t buy emissions credits or sell less polluting vehicles before the end of this year.The brand is also facing a sales down-turn as it struggles to find footing with its increasingly expensive range in a more-competitive-than-ever Australian market.Nissan is down 31 per cent year-on-year to the end of March while more value-focused rivals like GWM (up 28.5 per cent), Chery (up 93.8 per cent), and BYD (up 100.1 per cent) and other newcomers like Geely and its Zeekr premium arm, as well as Omoda Jaecoo eat into its market share.Stay tuned for more on Nissan’s plans for the remainder of 2026.

Nissan Australia has confirmed sweeping changes to its model line-up effective immediately, as formerly key models are axed in favour of a more hybrid-focused product mix.The 2026 Nissan Pathfinder large SUV and the Nissan Juke small SUV will be the last of their kind sold in Australia indefinitely, while the brand is also putting a hold on the arrival of the new Nissan Leaf electric small SUV until further notice.Along with dwindling sales, the models’ powertrain options make them incompatible with Nissan Australia’s hybrid-heavy plan, the outgoing regional boss has said.Nissan Oceania Managing Director Andrew Humberstone told CarsGuide the Pathfinder and Juke are being given the axe while the new Leaf, which in its new form is a small SUV, won’t arrive in showrooms for the foreseeable future either.That plan, he said, involves a lot more e-Power electrification to, presumably, balance out the effects of the incoming diesel-powered D27 Nissan Navara ute and the rather large Y63 Nissan Patrol in terms of Australia’s New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES), which bring fines for models that pollute more and award credits for selling low-emissions vehicles.With Juke and Pathfinder out, Nissan’s line-up is down to six badge names: Qashqai and X-Trail, the small and medium SUVs with hybrid ‘e-Power’ options, Navara and Patrol which fall under the light commercial vehicle category, plus the electric Ariya and the low-volume Nissan Z sports car.“We're going to see a natural dispersion between product and what's coming in, what's going out,” Humberstone told CarsGuide, “so we have to manage that in order to make those tough decisions now for the future.“Juke will no longer be in market, Pathfinder will no longer be in market. Leaf, we're going to, in essence, indefinitely delay at this moment.“We’ll continue to bring in, obviously Navara, which is more NVES-appropriate than the previous version, as is the new Patrol.”Behind Mazda Australia, Nissan is in second place for the largest looming fines as of the most recent February 1, 2026 figures.According to the NVES Regulator, Nissan Australia racked up $10.76m in potential fines between July 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025. Nissan must offset this by selling more low-emission vehicles, or buy credits from other manufacturers, in order to avoid the fines becoming a reality.The plan, according to Humberstone, is to create a model line-up that consists of mostly hybrid variants, thus the introduction of the e-Power-only Qashqai range last year.In addition, a more affordable version of the Nissan X-Trail is set to arrive with 2WD e-Power hybrid in the hopes of increasing hybrid sales of the model.“In addition to that, in the bridging strategy we're focused on when we see circa 75 per cent of all the registrations being, which is within the EV/hybrid space, and that's where we're putting all our energy in the short-term.“So that means the full range of Qashqai now is coming with e-Power technology, which is our hybrid. We’re seeing it with X-Trail… we now want to expand that with a 2x4 hybrid version.”Nissan’s financial situation has been the subject of much speculation, but Humberstone says one of the final things he leaves Nissan Australia with before his departure to a posting in France from April 2026 is this plan to future-proof the model line-up.He said the tumultuous state of the industry means difficult short-term decisions are needed to put the business in a better position in the medium- and long-term.“I would say even within the next six, seven months, you're going to start seeing the benefits of the work. The natural cleansing needs to be done. The sooner you do that, the better. “I believe our timing was perfect, given the volatility of what's been going on all over the place, and the number of competitors and more recent stuff that's going off at the moment around the globe.“We're here to stay in Oceania, and we're committed to the market. There's product investment being made. It's done. So there's no speculation on that.”Humberstone’s replacement is Steve Milette, who was President of Nissan Canada for more than five years, and is currently Division Vice President for Dealer Network Development, Customer Resources, Training and Customer Experience for Nissan and Infiniti’s entire North America region.He takes up the much shorter title of Managing Director of Nissan Oceania on April 1, and is expected to continue overseeing the plan to increase Nissan Australia’s hybridisation of the model range.

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Nissan is planning to introduce a hybrid version of its smallest SUV sold in Australia.But don’t rush out to your local dealer just yet, because we’re not likely to see a petrol-electric version of the Juke to go up against the Toyota Yaris Cross hybrid before next year at the earliest.There’s even a strong likelihood that Australia may have to wait until the third-generation version of Nissan’s small SUV from Europe surfaces sometime from 2027.According to Nissan Oceania Vice President and Managing Director, Andrew Humberstone, the move to a hybrid powertrain is inevitable given where the market seems to be headed.“Juke, for me, is an interesting one,” he told CarsGuide.“I think we need to look at where we can go with the new technology in the Juke. I think (hybrid) is where the space will be, where it starts to get more traction. What new technology can we bring in there, in terms of managing, you know, the gap between internal combustion engines (ICE) and electric, right?“(But the hybrid) will not come to Australia this year.”Why not, when total industry demand for hybrids in 2024 soared by 76 per cent over the year before, and that growth rate was topped only by a 100.2% leap in sales for plug-in hybrids?The very customer-focused boss of Nissan Australia and former head of Nissan Europe – who has instigated this month’s shock introduction of a dealer-service-activated 10-year/300,000km warranty with “flat” priced capped servicing, transferable and conditionally back-dated to 2021 models – insists that his team remains flexible enough to pivot with evolving buyer preferences.“I think we're seeing (that) in the next two to three years… we need to be very elastic in terms of what we're trying to do,” Humberstone said.“That’s because the market is so fluid. And so, it's really around getting the timing right and not trying to bring something in that’s not fit for purpose, just because we think it's about bringing the right product at the right time and managing customer expectations.“It's a common-sense solution. The question is, at what time (is right)?”In the meantime, Nissan is undertaking more research to fine-tune exactly what type of appetite for hybrid powertrains exist at this end of the SUV market in Australia.“For me, (hybrid) is where we need to look, and we need to understand from our dealer network and customers what kind of scale there is there,” Humberstone added.“To me, that's where the opportunity sits.”Based on the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance’s CMF-B platform and sharing many components but no body panels (unlike next year’s Mitsubishi ASX) with the second-gen Renault Captur, today’s Juke has only offered an 84kW/180Nm 1.0-litre three-cylinder turbo petrol engine since its 2020 launch in Australia.But, elsewhere, the British-made light SUV has also offered a 105kW/205Nm 1.6-litre four-pot petrol-electric hybrid option courtesy of the Captur since 2022. Not only does it use less fuel compared to the regular turbo petrol version (4.7L/100km versus 6.0L/100km), it shaves 1.7 seconds off the leisurely 11.8s 0-100km/h sprint time. Win-win for buyers.The next-gen Juke, meanwhile, will reportedly use the same ‘AmpR Small’ EV-only architecture as the coming Nissan Micra EV supermini (itself based on the acclaimed new Renault R5 E-Tech), though it is highly likely that ICE and hybrid versions of the small SUV are also under development, as demand for EVs slow in some regions.Whether the latter morphs into a variation of the lower-cost Kicks small SUV program (related to the Juke and sold in more price-sensitive parts of the world since 2015) remains to be seen. A Kicks e-Power EV-first hybrid grade has been available for some time in some markets, including in right-hand-drive Thailand, suggesting that this may be the path Nissan takes for the next-gen Juke.Whatever transpires, it seems certain that the Juke hybrid, or something related to it, has a future in Australia.Aided by freer supply and an update that brought improvements across the range, Juke sales in this country leaped up by one-third over 2023’s results.That said, its 1674 registrations are a far cry from the 18,461 buyers (up 17%) that the bestselling – if ageing – Mazda CX-3 managed, or the 8200 units (up 26%) recorded by the now-hybrid-only Yaris Cross.

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