Nissan X-Trail updated for 2017 as Nissan refines their X-Trail SUV

The Nissan X-Trail gets a bit of a titivate for 2017 with some styling tweaks, an improved interior and the addition of new technology including ProPilot.

Nissan has decided it’s time to give their X-Trail SUV a bit of a facelift, and in the belief that wrapping it up with the UEFA Champions League Final it will get more coverage it’s being revealed at an exclusive event a few hours ahead of the match.

Nissan’s largest SUV offering in the UK – and one capable of a bit more than just soft-roading – gets the usual exterior titivate, a new interior with higher quality materials and new technology. All the basic facelift fodder.

Changes at the front of the X-Trail include a front apron with gloss black bits, rectangular fogs, marginally tweaked headlights with revised design and adaptive LED units.

Round the back the tail lights are now full LED, and there’s a new chrome strip. And that seems to be it for the outside apart from new alloys designs and new paint options.

Inside, it’s the usual upgrades and tweaks, with a new steering wheel and, say Nissan, higher quality materials, splashes of gloss black plastics, heated steering wheel and seats (front and back) available, as is posh leather and BOSE, with DAB and tweaked infotainment across the range.

Nissan has even managed to squeeze a bit more room in the five-seat X-Trail, and there’s a kick-to-open tailgate too.

The headline technology upgrade is the arrival of Nissan’s ProPILOT which can steer, brake and accelerate the X-Trail when you’re on a dual carriageway, with autonomous emergency braking, pedestrian warning and rear cross traffic alert also in the mix.

Philippe Saillard, Nissan’s European sales boss, said:

Nissan is the official automotive partner of the UEFA Champions League, and football is a game loved by families all over the world. What better place to unveil the new Nissan X-Trail – the perfect car for family adventures – than at the 2017 Final in Cardiff.

Despite the titivations, Nissan hasn’t changed the engine line-up in the X-Trail for 2017, so it’s still a choice from a single 161bhp 1.6 litre petrol or a pair of diesels – the 128bhp 1.6 or 175bhp 2.0 – with auto and 4WD as options on the diesels.

The new Nissan X-Trail goes on sale in the UK in August, by which time the election will be done and dusted and Nissan can decide how much X-Trail prices are going up once the political dust has settled a bit.