Nissan is ready to kill off the Rogue Sport as a part of a transfer to revamp its lineup.

The automotive producer introduced the transfer in a memo just lately issued to dealerships, noting that manufacturing of the Rogue Sport will finish in December.

“With the all-new Rogue and just lately redesigned Kicks, we’ll proceed to cowl this a part of [the] market successfully,” Nissan vice chairman Scott Shirley stated within the memo. “We’re additionally capable of make investments extra assets in our present automobile lifecycles and next-generation merchandise.”

Shirley famous that the transfer may even enable Nissan to shift manufacturing to higher-demand automobiles such because the Rogue, Kicks, and Pathfinder.

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Whereas manufacturing of the Rogue Sport will finish in December, gross sales will proceed into early 2023 and Nissan will present components assist via 2033, Auto Information experiences.

The Nissan Rogue Sport has by no means caught on fairly like the corporate had hoped because it was launched in 2017. It sits between the Kicks and the Rogue and had been anticipated to ship 70 per cent conquest gross sales. Nonetheless, it emerged as early as September 2019 that the way forward for the Rogue Sport was on shaky floor.

AutoForecast Options vice chairman Sam Fiorani says that the hole between the Rogue and the Rogue Sport has widened because the latter has moved barely upscale.

“In the meantime, the recognition of the Kicks and its cheaper price has put stress on Rogue Sport gross sales, squeezing it out of the lineup,” he added.

The way forward for the smaller Nissan Kicks seems rather more sure. It’s set for a redesign in early 2024 that’s anticipated to see it turn out to be longer and wider. The launch of the new-generation Rogue final 12 months additionally implies that it looks like a way more trendy automobile than the Rogue Sport.