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There have been three generations of Nissan Qashqai. All are five-seat SUVs – there’s no seven-seater Qashqai any more, but the Nissan X-Trail does offer a third row of seats if you’re one of the designated drivers for your child’s sports team.

Whether you want petrol or diesel, two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, or a manual or automatic gearbox, the Qashqai is a stylish but unpretentious choice that’ll slot as easily into your lifestyle as it does into parking spaces. An extensive facelift in 2017 introduced some welcome improvements too.

Then, in 2021, a new Qashqai was launched. Marked out by its boomerang-shaped headlights, the latest iteration doesn’t do anything drastically different but does come with a thoroughly updated interior and hybrid options.

The Nissan Qashqai might look like a rufty-tufty SUV but, in reality, it’s barely any bigger than a family hatchback like a Ford Focus – although, of course, it is taller. It’s a little over 4.4m long and 1.8m wide. Its size means it’s reasonably easy to park, and that task is made easier on top-spec cars with lots of cameras and parking assistance. The raised ride height means it’s easy to get children in and out, and you’ll find its height handy if you have limited mobility. Yet, it’s not so high that the family labrador will have to put on mountain-climbing gear to get in the boot.

The Qashqai manages to be a lot more practical than a conventional hatchback, offering plenty of headroom and enough legroom. However, it’s not quite the most spacious SUV so, if you’ve got a particularly bulky child seat or a particularly tall teenager, the Qashqai might start to feel a little cramped.

The pre-2021 Qashqai has a 430-litre boot (seats up), while its newer replacement offers up to 504 litres. Both are a good size, even if they’re a little short of what’s available in the Skoda Karoq or Hyundai Tucson.

Whether you want petrol or diesel, two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, or a manual or automatic gearbox, the Qashqai offers something to suit. There are no hybrids on the previous-generation Qashqai, but the latest iteration does replace the old diesel engines with clean hybrid units.

Four-wheel drive is available on range-topping versions of the Qashqai – both the latest and previous generation – but the vast majority are front-wheel drive. Many of the Qashqai’s SUV rivals are similar in this respect.

The Nissan Qashqai hasn’t always had a reliability record – to be expected given just how many are sold each year – but it seems reliability has improved with the very latest Qashqai. It was named the UK’s most reliable car by Which? in January 2023.