Nissan On the Trail To SEMA With Nismo-Tuned Rugged Rogue Concept

SEMA is true across the nook, however with Nissan’s new SEMA idea at your disposal, you may neglect the nook and simply lower straight throughout the desert to the Las Vegas Conference Heart.

Known as Challenge Rugged Rogue, the toughened-up SUV is considered one of a number of ideas Nissan has whipped up for this 12 months’s SEMA present, and we’re hoping that at the least a few of its angle transfers to the competent, snug and freshly facelifted, however pretty unexciting, 2024 Rogue out there in Nissan dealerships throughout North America.

Challenge Rugged Rogue

Rugged Rogue encompasses a stack of prototype Nismo components, a lot of which we think about will likely be out there quickly. Highlights embody a 3-inch (76 mm) suspension elevate, Nismo 18 x 8.5-inch wheels sporting Yokohama off-road tires and lined by carbon fender flares, a Nismo dual-exit middle exhaust, roof rack and bumper guards with driving lights, and a roof-mounted kayak and mountain bike.

Inside, the Nismo connection continues with Nismo neoprene entrance and rear seat covers, a Nismo off-road spare tire provider, and numerous bits of inside trim, once more attributed to Nismo.

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Sentra DET

Nissan’s second idea gained’t get you very far on an overland route, nevertheless it should be helpful on an asphalt one. The Sentra DET idea is impressed by the competitors automobiles used within the Sentra Cup, a race sequence that’s well-liked in Canada and which will likely be extending its attain to the U.S. in 2024. It will get its DET identify from the engine’s DOHC, Digital gas injection, and Turbocharger parts, and as Nissan followers will know, references the engine code suffix used on some Nissan efficiency heroes from the previous.

The Sentra idea’s personal MR20DD 2.0-liter, turbocharged four-cylinder engine comes with no quoted energy determine, nevertheless it’s certain to be punchier than the dreary 149 hp (151 PS) naturally-aspirated 2.0 that’s obligatory in each manufacturing Sentra. Plus, it will get a six-speed handbook ’field rather than the street automotive’s obligatory CVT.

Different mods embody a prototype Nismo chrome steel exhaust, whereas the 18-inch Nismo LM-RS6 wheels put on Yokohama Advan AD09 tires and are suspended by a prototype Nismo coilover setup. Even the garish graphics can’t stop it from trying like a hopped-up rental automotive on the skin, however issues enhance on the opposite facet of the driving force’s door the place you’ll discover Recaro Sportster CS seats and a Nismo shift knob. The final Nismo Sentra bowed out in 2019 so might Nissan be hinting at a return to the inexpensive sports activities sedan market?