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Beetling down a dual carriageway at a good rate of knots behind the wheel of the new third generation Nissan Qashqai helped me put the new SUV neatly into perspective.
And here's the rub. If, over a couple of decades, you've effectively transformed the car market by creating a whole new popular class of car – the compact family SUV – how do you improve on the ingredients you already have?
Evolution not revolution is clearly the Nissan strategy with the newest incarnation, which arrives at a critical time for the Japanese car company making the motor in post-Brexit Britain.
Should you consider Qashing in? Ray Massey was among the first in the country to get behind the wheel of the new third-generation Qashqai. Here are his first impressions