Nissan Qashqai n
NO disrespect intended, but when Nissan’s new SUV was first launched back in 2007, many wondered whether naming a car after a desert dwelling nomadic tribe from South West Iran would guarantee sales in Europe?
Nissan obviously thought and hoped so, because that’s where the name for their then-quirky looking Qashqai came from. Continue reading
IT was a bit of a break in tradition when Nissan named their all new SUV over 15 years ago.
Up till then it had been, in the main, numbers or place names that had distinguished cars from their rivals.
But Qashqai? Naming it after a desert-dwelling nomadic tribe from south west Iran was definitely different, but would it attract sales across Europe? Continue reading