Nissan Sunny Facelift: Is this it?

Weeks ago, at the sidelines of the Nissan Micra Facelift and Micra Active launch event, the Japanese car maker announced that the Sunny sedan is due for a facelift in the coming months. A Chinese automotive website, Auto.Sohu in this case, is carrying spyshots of the facelifted Sunny sedan.

The Nissan Sunny is a global car model sold in many countries across the world under the Sunny, Almera and Versa badges. The Sunny is also sold in the China, and the Chinese media are speculating a September launch for the facelifted model of this car, with a reveal likely at the Chengdu Auto Show.

From the spyshots, it appears that the facelifted Nissan Sunny derives inspiration from the recently launched facelifted Micra. The Sunny facelift's headlamps feature an edgier design. The front bumper, fog lamp inserts and grille also see changes. The alloy wheels are redesigned while the rear bumper and chrome detailing also get refreshed.

On the inside too, the Nissan Sunny is expected to see changes through the usage of more premium materials. Engine and transmission options could remain unchanged given the fact that the Sunny is barely 3 years old.  The Sunny sedan is Nissan India's best selling car model.

The C-segment sedan, known for its capacious leg room, comes with two engine options: a 1.5 liter HR15DE petrol engine outputting 99 Bhp-134 Nm and a 1.5 liter K9K turbo diesel engine outputting 85 Bhp-200 Nm. With Indian car buyers's propensity to gravitate towards diesel engined cars, the diesel variant of the Sunny brings in the lion's share of sales volumes.

The Sunny is offered with a 5 speed manual gearbox as standard while the petrol powered model can be specified with a CVT automatic gearbox. In India, the Nissan Sunny has spawned a badge engineered model in the form of the Renault Scala C-segment sedan. Together, these sedans manage average monthly volumes of 2,000 units. Both the Sunny and the Scala are built at the Renault-Nissan joint manufacturing facility at Oragadam, off Chennai.