Scoop: Is This The 2014 Nissan Patrol Facelift?

As the sixth generation of the Nissan Patrol (related to the recently renamed Infiniti QX80 which was previously known as the QX) approaches its fourth year in the market, it's only to reasonable to expect that the Japanese company prepares some updates to keep consumer interest high in its flagship SUV.

A member of the Nissan Arabia forums scooped these photos of what appears to be next year's updated version of the Patrol loaded on a transport truck in Dubai.

We only see the parts of the profile and rear end of the large SUV, in which we detected newly designed tail lamps, alloy wheels and possibly side trims.

If this is indeed the lightly revised Patrol, we wouldn't be surprised if Nissan unveils the car at next week's Dubai Motor Show (November 5 to 9).

We tip our hats to Saif for the heads up!

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Nissan Shares Photos and Video of Camouflaged 2014 Qashqai

The Qashqai crossover is Nissan’s best-selling vehicle in Europe and the Japanese carmaker wants to make sure the all-new model will follow in the footsteps of its successful predecessor. After the teaser photo showing the car under a veil, Nissan has now released photos and a video from the new Qashqai’s development phase that shows the crossover during testing in various conditions and places around the world.

Unfortunately, the car is heavily camouflaged so we don’t get to decrypt its styling. However, Nissan says that in the process of developing the second-generation Qashqai, it has left “no stone unturned”.

According to Nissan, the new model will set "new benchmarks for active safety technologies, driver comfort and refinement, and will rewrite the crossover rulebook"..

It won’t be long before we see what exactly Nissan is talking about, as the all-new Qashqai will be revealed on November 7.

By Dan Mihalascu

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Spied: Nissan Shuts Down the 'Ring to Test 2014 GT-R NISMO

We've known for a while now that Nissan is preparing the most track-focused, but still completely street-legal, edition of the GT-R under its growing portfolio of NISMO-branded special models.

It was also made known via UK magazine Autocar that former Formula 1 driver Sébastien Buemi would be the chief development test driver for the 2014 GT-R Nismo and that he would attempt to break the GT-R's previous official record time of 7:18.6 set at the Nürburgring in 2012, which placed it in ninth place in the list.

And it just so happened that last week, Nissan rented the Nordschleife for itself and had a prototype of the 2014 NISMO GT-R running around the track. We learned about it from the crew over at BridgeofGantry, who took a video of the GT-R tester driven hard on the circuit.

We still don't know if these were preliminary test runs or if Nissan actually aimed to break the record, but we gather that it won't be long before we find out.

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