The sedan lives (elsewhere)
In the Netherlands, Nissan hasn’t sold a sedan for years. Far beyond our borders, the brand has several, including this brand-new Nissan N6 and Teana.
The automotive world is bigger than the Netherlands, so we gladly look across the border to see what’s happening there. This time, we come to Nissan. In one smooth move, it unveils not one, but two brand-new sedans. That seems strange to us Europeans. Aren’t sedans not that popular? Not here, but elsewhere they certainly are!
We start with the most technically interesting and also most complex of the two: the Nissan N6. The Nissan N6 is a 4.83-meter-long sedan that is slightly shorter than the – now discontinued – Maxima. The N6 connects name- and design-wise to the N-line of Nissan Dongfeng, a model line where that Chinese joint venture runs a series of electrified models with Chinese technology. The N6 shows strong similarities to the so far only other N-model: the N7. Unlike that 4.93-meter-long N7, the N6 is not an EV, but a plug-in.
The Nissan N6 has a 1.5-liter four-cylinder gasoline engine with about 100 hp that is supported by an electric motor with over 200 hp. A 21.2 kWh LFP battery is responsible for the energy supply of that electric motor, although the electric range is not yet known. Like the Nissan N7, the N6 sits on the so-called Tianyan Architecture, which is also under the Dongfeng eπ 007. Good luck pronouncing that model name (e pi 007).
The second new sedan from Nissan has a more familiar name: Teana. The model name Teana has been used since 2003 and has been applied to models that elsewhere were known as the Maxima and later as the Altima. The Teana is not entirely new, by the way; we are dealing here with yet another facelift version of the Altima, intended for the Chinese market, which was presented in 2018. The Nissan Teana is 4.92 meters long and is therefore certainly not a small car. Detailed technical data will follow later, although those – like those of the Nissan N6 – are of course completely irrelevant for the Netherlands. After all, neither of them is coming our way.