Nissan Murano/Rogue ????
 

Anybody have any experience with either one of these cars? My girlfriend is thinking about getting one. Thoughts? Comments?

Thanks.

MDS

I was a Nissan Salesman for Ten years. I sold alot of them over the years. I'm not loyal to Nissan I drive a F250 and my next truck will be a Ford.
Both cars are great cars I base that off of I only had one customer that I sold a Murano that the CVT transmission went bad and it was out of warranty and Nissan still picked up the bill.
The only two Nissan that gave me trouble with my Custumers was the Quest and the Titan. Other than that you will get tired of Driveing a Nissan before you ware it out.

Dan

Ive owned three Nissan/ Ininity products and my sales guys have Muranos- excellent SUV and the Nissan Vq series 6 is superb.

The Nissan engines mostly use chains vs belt driven cams- this saves you a boatload of cash down the line.

95 Maxima I gave to sister to 115K now has 235K on it still driving. The gold standard of car ownership in my 45 years.

04 titan- is a great performing truck but has been brutally expensive to keep maintained properly. Ive put over 8K into it in 7 years. completely unlike all my other nissan products.

06 G35 coupe- absolutely superb vehicle in every way just needed a bigger vehicle.

Uncle Dave

I'd look at the new Ford Edge, have a client with one and man is it a nice sporty suv for the $. The new one drives so nice, and the interior fit/finish and layout is much nicer then the Murano. MyFord Touch is some pretty cool tech too. That's funny about the Titan maintenance cost mentioned above, seems to be the one Nissan vehicle with ridiculous upkeep cost let alone for any normal car/truck, guy down the street told me he spent thousands on his CC Titan and then traded it for a new F-150 5.0 when the transmission blew on the Titan. Another friends Titan he used to own was always in for some issue.

I had a titan and never had any issues with it, my wife had the murano when it first came out very nice cross over. It rode great, quite, and good acceleration. If I wouldn't have taken such a hit in pay in 09 we would still have both. When we bought the murano we had to wait for it to get in from another dealer so the gave us a rouge to drive. It is nice but cheaper than the murano in every aspect. Go for the Murano she will be much happier. I was never worried about maintenance though, my father n law is the parts manger at the nissan dealership, so he would tell the service writers to take care of us, and they did, this was in our older ones, a frontier and altima. I would buy another nissan in a heartbeat.

I rented a Rogue in Texas and it was a good all around car. It was small but had a lot of interior room, handled well. Not sure what engine was in there, but it was adequate. If she's just looking for a good all round car, might be a good choice. With that said, way too averaged if she wants something interesting.

Ford Edge, Chevy equniox, GMC terrain before you buy either of those

The Edge & the equinox feels like a plastic factory to me.

Pay attention to NVH in these vehicles.


Uncle Dave

Not the new Edge, interior makes the new Nissans seem flat out cheap and blahhh. The new ones fit/finish is excellent. Though I agree on the Equinox as had a rental one a few months ago.

Thats good to hear because the edge my friend with the ecobost f150 has feels like an el cheapo. He made the mistake of borrowing my Lexus RX400H and commented the edge feels "hecho en Mexico".

The equiox was dissapointing.


UD

Yeh the new Edge was really nice, just the design and layout is cool alone, but it would give some luxury cars a run for their money in fit/finish. New Explorer is extremely nice as well, just wish they had the Eco-Boost 6 in it lol.

I don't know what it is with GM, their interiors for the most part look clean and laid out well, like the Equinox, just a clean simple layout. Yet everything that's tactile has an ubber cheap feel to it. Just like their pickups, clean layout but everything feels so cheap. Yeh the F-150 has plastic, but it's fit/finish and materials, even the tactile feel of the plastic you touch is on another level of better-ness (is that a word? lol). CTS-V is the only one that has a great interior, and what's funnier is they put excellent Recaro seats in, while the Vette inc their flagship ZR1 was stuck with pos unsupportive seats lol, till they just changed the seats a bit this year after so many years of complaints.

The Equinox is a rung lower then Edge/Murano as far as size/class/cost....and I have never read anything similar to the Equinox not being best in class interior.

The original Edge was plasticky, the updated one much nicer.

My wife loves her Murano. Only had one issue. Needed a new high pressure line for the power steering as it started leaking. Just turned 80K miles. Have a buddy who's girlfriend has one and she loves it too. The chicks dig em as you see lots of them driving them.
Has more drivers leg room than my Yukon Denali.