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The Nissan Murano may start at a reasonable $28,500, but stepping up to the recently-announced CrossCabriolet version will set you back a healthy $46,390 (before $800 destination charge) according to Nissan ‘s website. That makes it the second most-expensive Nissan after the GTR, and it comes in only one trim level (with navigation, heated everything, a Bose system, HID headlights and more). So, why wasn’t the CrossCabrio released as an Infiniti again?
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In keeping with its namesake, we must banish it to an island in the lagoon, lest it burn all of our eyes with its misguided hideousness! Say, is the Juke still hiding in that church tower in France?
I felt this MIGHT have been able to wear the Nissan badge up to maybe $40k, but this is pretty ridiculous. Needs to be Infiniti (with commensurate warranty and dealers) in order to justify that kind of pricing.
So a Murano roof is worth -$20k?
Cool! I should go around tearing them off of cars in parking lots, and charging their owners for the service.
I would be slightly interested if it were a hardtop coupe, (traditional 2 door)….and a lot less money…lots less….
My sentiments exactly. If a car company can make rear windows roll down on a convertible, why not a pillarless hardtop re-introduction? GM should be the company to do this, however, as they invented the concept.
It does look like a 2 door hard-top in the picture that I’m looking at. What did I miss?
@Srogers…convertible with no panel seams = softtop
Yup; I guess that that a hard-top would require a “hard top”. Sorry for my brain cramp.
Looks like a WWII “Kommandeurswagen”.
I predict sales of 138 units in 2011.
I second this estimate!
Could Nissan really force 138 of its execs to drive one?
I thought convertibles were supposed to look better with the top down…
Yikes! I thought the drop top PT Cruiser was hideous, but it’s rather tame next to this…
When I clicked the top down photo, that’s what instantly came to mind — PT Loser Droptop. Same high-sided, ungainly proportions.
I have to ask, are all of Nissan’s designers huffing glue or spraypaint or something?
Their design language of late is a steaming, hot anime mess.
Dear God!! I saw pictures of this awhile back on one of these autoblogs, but I assumed that it was one of those concepts or a photochopped photo of something that no one would have the nerve to build.
They actually built it??!!! The end is near. Didn’t Nissan learn anything from the PT Cruiser ragtop?? *Sigh*
My eyes hurt.
A convertible Suburban Utility Vehicle or Cockroachesque Utility Vehicle depending on the class it’s fighting in. Um… Okay… So will this have to be even heavier and thirstier?
The convertible minivan featured in a CC a long time ago looked better, and that’s not saying much.
Fail.
It isn’t terribly bad looking (in pictures), because they managed to proportion it pretty well. In fact it looks pretty much like those compact cabriolets that we have a lot of here in Europe. In person it is likely going to be awkward, due to its size, though I’m willing to give it a chance. Not that I’d ever want to buy one, but what ever happened to tipping one’s hat to a company that is willing to build something other than horribly boring and ugly cars (Hyundai Sonata, I’m looking at you…). The 6-year-old deep inside of me appreciates the sheer outrageousness of things like this (and the X6, which I adore a little bit and would buy, if I couldn’t have a better handling sedan instead).
I’m thinking “what the hell where Nissan thinking” and at the same time I can only give them props for that.
Let’s see:
It isn’t good looking
It doesn’t go fast or handle well
It can’t go off road
It will not haul much stuff
It’s no longer suitable for 4 or 5 adults on longer trips
It’s not particularly economical
I really see no reason for this vehicle to exist.
^THIS
Sooooo…. A pudgy Mitsubishi Eclipse blacked out at a party and was given “a ride home” by an overly-aggressive HHR.
9 months later, this is the result.
I was going to comment, but just about everybody expressed my own sentiments in different, often imaginative ways, and carguy gave a very nice summary. Why would I want this thing when a Z is more fun and a lot cheaper?
I’ve always hated the look of the Murano.
It looks like a logical successor to the Bentley Continental GT. I suppose that makes it a bit of a bargain for people who have absolutely no taste.
Well I thought the Juke was going to be an ugly and pointless waste of metal which no one would buy and I was proved utterly wrong.
After that I don’t doubt that Nissan have actually done their research, and that there really are swarms of people out there with too much money and not enough taste who desperately want to be seen in this hunk of pointlessness on wheels. God help us all.
Juke has the hottest drivetrain going in the sub-$20k segment. This Murano has…….help me out here? But yes, part of me fears there’s an untapped market for overpriced convertible CUVs. God help us.
This is what I call one of those “Jeopardy” vehicles… where you are provided the answer, then you have to figure out the question.
I can’t believe this atrocity made it to production. If they sell more than 100 of these I will be shocked.
What line of thinking even went into this thing?
“I would like a convertible, but really wish it was like 5 feet higher off the ground, went half as fast, took up way more space, got terrible gas mileage, oh and please make sure it can’t carry any more stuff than an average convertible.”
I just noticed something really scary about this thing. No rollover protection! Vehicles this high often rollover in crashes. That would leave everyone here headless.
They already are if they bought this.
Am I seeing things or are there two rear windows on this convertible’s top? A weird car gets even weirder.
Way too expensive, I was look at like 30 before add ons. I still think its a cool lookin ride, tho. And I really miss pillerless hardtops. Really miss them.
I LIKE it.
It is one of THE top cars from the LA uto show.
Not sure I like the price…needs to be under 40.
Other favs from the show”
Cruze./Volt.
Focus.
Juke.
BMW X3
KIA Optima with turbo. Why no future hatch displayed!!!!
New Jag!!!
Very favorite if I was to buy today…
Volvo XC60.
So wrong, this whole idea is so f-ed up, a convertible CUV?!? Its stupid on a whole new level. Then again maybe not… the logic (aka marketing meeting) goes like this: soccer moms love SUV and women in general love convertibles, so we’ll combine the two and charge big bucks for it? Brilliant!
The good news, the Juke looks really good when parked next to it, so maybe that’s the point. If a customer turns their nose up at the Puke show them this mess.
What is the over/under on sales? and who is taking the over?
I don’t see a problem. Just look at CUVs as tall cars. Like regular cars were until the 1950s.
Just because a vehicle doesn’t fit into a person’s pigeon-hole vehicle description doesn’t mean that it has no value. But $40k? That’s a stretch.
Mock it all you want, but I’ll bet that this thing will sell well to “women of a certain age”.
“Mock it all you want, but I’ll bet that this thing will sell to “women of a certain age”.”
I’m married to a “woman of that certain age” and I can tell you unequivocably that she will want one, until she sees the price.
At slightly under $40K, Nissan would have a sale to my wife. I’m sure that with the difference in the Canadian dollar, and the egregious markups added to Canadian vehicles this will top out at close to $55K in the Great Frozen North.
And to all those that hate the styling, I guess you’re all ecstactic with the styling of the Corolla and Cruze, hmmm?
I give Nissan kudos for their edgy and very different styling. It’s extremely easy to identify Versas, Jukes, Cubes, Rogues and Muranos in the sea of greige Cruzollas.
Why did they release it at all? Why did they make the equally ugly Leaf? And the even uglier Juke? Why do they put those awful CVT’s in everything they make?
It wasn’t that long ago I considered myself a Nissan fan, now I’m literally beginning to develop a Pavlovian response. Cringing every time I hear the word Nissan.
As a previous posted noted, what’s with the extra window in the top. It looks like it is nearly horizontal, so I can’t see how it helps with rear visibility. On one hand, at least is a real rag top, and not one of those hideous hard top convertibles (what’s the point, they take up all luggage space, and think we can safely assume they are a major expense waiting to happen when they break). At 47K, they can have it. That’s the same money as a 128IC, and it does come with the warranty and service. I agree with the earlier poster that this needed to be badged as an FX convertible and sold as an Infinity.
“So, why wasn’t the CrossCabrio released as an Infiniti again?”
Because Infiniti is rapidly becoming insignificant in the North American market. Why else?
This might just be snark but it’s not far off the mark. Infiniti seems to be all about the G in the same way Cadillac is all about the CTS.
I vote Crack Price.
The comparisons to PT Cruiser convertible are obvious. Except that the PT was around $20k, and during it’s run it was often the cheapest 4-seat convertible on the market. This thing is not cheap AND not pretty.