Nissan Qashqai: 20 years of the car that changed British motoring

The Volkswagen Golf has been around for 52 years, the Vauxhall Astra for 47 and the Renault Clio for 36. So what’s the big deal about the Nissan Qashqai celebrating its 20th anniversary this year?

Ask the production line workers at the factory in Sunderland who build it and they’ll say it has brought prosperity to what might otherwise have been a very depressed region, while the engineers at Nissan’s technical centre in Cranfield, Bedfordshire, who developed it are likely to cite immense job satisfaction.