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avant garde styling
it’s the Murano’s sculptured front and rear fascia that captures family’s hearts
pleasingly butch stance when outfitted with the optional 20-inch wheels and tires
a fierce furrowing that is, actually, quite a bit more aggressive than anything else in the Nissan garage
more striking than ever, wrapped in even tauter bodywork
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avant garde styling
Edmunds
it’s the Murano’s sculptured front and rear fascia that captures family’s hearts
Vehix.com
pleasingly butch stance when outfitted with the optional 20-inch wheels and tires
Car and Driver
a fierce furrowing that is, actually, quite a bit more aggressive than anything else in the Nissan garage
Los Angeles Times
more striking than ever, wrapped in even tauter bodywork
MotorWeek
As either a clean break away from the crossover-vehicle mainstream, or as a particularly cohesively styled family device, the Murano remains a good-looking vehicle. It's a station wagon when you get down to it, but it's one that's much more voluptuous.
The current version, we've thought, carries itself more assertively as a crisply detailed, high-shouldered tall wagon and less than the single-piece designer-footwear look of the first-generation Murano. The toothy chrome grille is a bit of a distraction to the rest of the design, but moving inside to the cabin it all meshes together in a convincing way, even though inside the Murano comes close to overdoing it on the rounded and bulbous shapes.
We think there's only one issue with the otherwise sleek exterior: The toothy, chromey grille remains a distraction from the rest of the buff, smoothly integrated design. Ever since it was redesigned in 2009, that's remained the sore point of an otherwise sophisticated look. A couple of years ago Nissan has made some attempts to tone down the look with new running lamps flanking the grille, but the difference itself is subtle.Inside, the Murano has a two-tiered instrument-panel design that can look either smooth and curvaceous, or a little bulbous. As a whole, the Interior looks coordinated as a budget-level Infiniti as much as with the Maxima sedan.
A hooded gauge cluster fits the upscale impression, while the center-stack arrangement is both stylish and logically arranged, with the nav-system or trip-computer screen up top and audio and climate controls just below.
Conclusion
The Nissan Murano has a upscale-looking tall-wagon style that feels cohesive, inside and out.
