Used Nissan Qashqai 2021-present reliability

The Nissan Qashqai scored five stars (out of five) when it was appraised for safety by Euro NCAP. Diving deeper into the results shows that the Qashqai did well at protecting adults and children, scoring a 'marginal' in only one area.

There’s plenty of safety kit, with even entry-level Visia models coming with automatic emergency braking (AEB) as standard from new, along with blind-spot monitoring, driver attention alert, traffic-sign recognition, lane-keeping assistance and e-Call emergency response.

If you go for the Tekna or Tekna+ trims, you get Nissan’s ProPilot driver assistance system. That adds a self-steering function that allows the Qashqai to keep itself in the centre of a lane on motorways and dual carriageways (although you must keep your hands on the steering wheel at all times). When paired with an automatic gearbox, it uses software from the sat-nav to anticipate the speed you should be going and adjust it for you.

There are no major recalls to report as of yet.

While this latest Qashqai was absent from our latest What Car? Reliability Survey due to being fairly new on the market, its predecessor (in petrol form) came 28th out of 39 cars in the family SUV class. As a brand, Nissan ranked 25th out of 32 manufacturers. Neither of these results is particularly confidence inspiring.