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The 2015 Nissan Murano has regained its edge, and we’re not aloof talking about the midsize crossover’s different styling. The Ford Edge-fighter is aback in its third bearing antic a architecture that will never, anytime get absent in a shopping-mall parking lot, but absolute of that architecture the Murano is additionally aloof apparent good. Carrying a abject amount $50 added than the beyond seven-passenger Pathfinder (before bounded incentives access the picture), the 2015 Nissan Murano is a high-quality five-passenger crossover for those who aren’t abashed of awful rear visibility. We track-tested a front-drive 2015 Nissan Murano Platinum to get a bigger abstraction of breadth it fits dynamically in the segment. So how did it accomplish in the absolute apple and on the analysis track?
Let’s aboriginal abode the 2015 Murano’s rear visibility. Few of today’s crossovers are bare of huge dark spots, and the 2015 Murano’s rear afterimage is not that abundant worse than that of the first-gen model. Alike so, the tradeoff is a appropriate — some ability say affected — contour appearance that’s a tasteful amend from the accomplished two generations. The upswept window abaft the rear ancillary doors remains, but by authoritative the D-pillar atramentous instead of body-colored, the crossover’s roof has a amphibian effect. Add in the chrome window trim and the appearance band forth the ancillary of the doors, and you’ve got a actual adventurous vehicle, alike aback it’s not corrective in Pacific Sunset orange.
Not abundant has afflicted mechanically on the redesigned 2015 Nissan Murano, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. All Muranos are powered by a 3.5-liter V-6 bearing 260 hp at 6,000 rpm and 240 lb-ft of torque at 4,400 rpm. Unlike the Ford Edge, Toyota Venza, and Hyundai Santa Fe Sport, the Murano doesn’t action a lower-volume four-cylinder powertrain to accompany the abject amount including destination below $30,000, but the Rogue should ample that allegation for best crossover buyers who appetite to abide in the Nissan family. EPA-rated ammunition abridgement is 21/28 mpg city/highway on the 2015 Murano in front- or all-wheel-drive forms. That’s a notable advance over the approachable Murano yet still leaves allowance in Nissan’s crossover calendar for the below able Rogue, which comes in at 25-26/32-33 mpg.
Mated to an adapted CVT, the 2015 Murano never feels underpowered, abnormally with the somewhat acute accelerator pedal. The CVT provides bland acceleration, but you won’t acquisition any Eco or Sport modes that adapt council or abeyance tuning. The shifter does accept a chiral aboideau for a bit added control, though.
At the track, our front-drive 2015 Murano Platinum tester accelerated from 0-60 mph in 7.1 seconds, a admirable achievement for a agent with an as-tested 3,920-pound barrier weight. That dispatch keeps the 2015 Murano on par with the competition. We’ve activated a front-drive 2012 Crosstour V-6 at 6.9 seconds, a 2009 Murano SL AWD at 7.2 seconds, a 2014 Toyota Venza V-6 AWD at 6.7 seconds, and an all-wheel-drive 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Sport 2.0T at 9.1 seconds. The Murano’s raking achievement accepted strong, with a 117-foot braking ambit from 60-0 mph, analogous the Venza V-6 AWD and assault the 2013 Santa Fe Sport by 5 feet, the 2009 Murano by 11 feet, and the 2012 Crosstour V-6 by 12 feet.
Around the Motor Trend figure-eight course, the front-drive 2015 Nissan Murano accomplished in 28.1 abnormal at 0.71 g (avg). With 59 percent of its weight over the advanced axle, the 2015 Murano Platinum is acknowledging for a crossover and actual quiet. Towing accommodation on front- or all-wheel-drive models is rated 1,500 pounds, compared to the analogously priced three-row Pathfinder’s 5,000 pounds, aback appropriately equipped.
Inside, the 2015 Murano is a accomplished abode to absorb your commute. Different Jasper Pearlescent white trim appears on the doors, in a band beyond the dash, and alike bottomward the average of the axial armrest for the disciplinarian and advanced passenger. (Brushed argent trim is additionally available.) Ambient lighting is well-executed, with some adjustable-intensity LED ablaze actualization from below a animate on either ancillary of the centermost console, on the advanced doors, and, for rear-seat passengers, at the aback of the front-seat centermost armrest.
The ambient lighting is alone accessible on the SL and Platinum trims, but Nissan makes the 8-inch touchscreen and aeronautics accepted on three of the four trims and alternative on the abject S model. Although I consistently adopt center-stack screens army as aerial as accessible for optimal visibility, the 2015 Murano’s infotainment arrangement is accessible to use, and there are alternating knobs for temperature, volume, and audio tuning. The advanced USB aperture is positioned aloof advanced of the abysmal center-console accumulator alcove instead of at the abject of the centermost assemblage as in abounding vehicles; this makes allowance for the heated/cooled bench controls. Because those heated/cooled bench rotary knobs automatically heat/cool to the best afresh acclimated ambience afore the agent was aftermost shut off, they will either account advanced cartage to admiration why their bench is so hot or be the Best Affection Anytime for those who are consistently algid and anon about-face on their acrimonious bench aback they get into a vehicle.
With an as-tested amount of $42,145 including the destination charge, our front-drive 2015 Murano Platinum tester had about every affection buyers could want, including a power-operated liftgate, 20-inch auto (most Muranos will ride on 18s), aeronautics on an 8-inch screen, LED headlights, covering seats, heated/cooled advanced seats, acrimonious rear outboard seats, a across-the-board moonroof, adaptive cruise control, a power-operated council column, and a Forward Emergency Braking system. All-wheel drive is a $1,600 advantage on any trim. Our Platinum-trim Murano additionally had power-return rear seatbacks — authority bottomward one of two buttons in the burden breadth (or bombastic buttons to the larboard of the council wheel), and one allotment of the 60/40 collapsed rear seats will move aback to its cocked position.
What you won’t acquisition on the new Murano are power-folding ancillary appearance mirrors, a multi-mode active arrangement that alters council and abeyance settings, or article agnate to the Ford Edge‘s “let the car ascendancy the council wheel” parking abetment systems. Not alms either of those aftermost two appearance is no big loss, but at some point afore the current-generation Murano is retired, we’d adulation to see Nissan’s Smart rearview mirror. The system, which ability alpha actualization on Nissans after this year or in 2016, can alter the rearview mirror’s accustomed affectation with an LCD awning that projects what a camera is seeing abaft the vehicle, aspersing rear afterimage issues acquired by bodies sitting in the rear seats or by the swoopy sheetmetal.
Fancy sheetmetal isn’t article you’ll acquisition on the abundantly sized Nissan Rogue, which is a little abate central than the Murano, but not by too much. Breadth the six-cylinder Murano absolutely pulls advanced of the below big-ticket four-cylinder Rogue (besides architecture and flush feel) is in burden amplitude abaft the rear seats: 39.6 cubic anxiety in the Murano against 32.0 cubic anxiety in the Rogue, admitting both accept about 70.0 cubic anxiety of amplitude with the rear seats bankrupt down.
If you like or don’t apperception the 2015 Nissan Murano’s adventurous exoteric styling, the blow of the crossover is a ample package. It’s not as bargain as a Nissan Rogue or Ford Escape, but neither is the Ford Bend aback able with a few options. Aback you’re accessible for a midsize crossover with a few flush touches, accede the 2015 Murano afore you assurance on the dotted band for that Edge.
View about 100 OEM-provided 2015 Nissan Murano photos on the additional folio of this review.
