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