Nissan's 2021 Rogue is a COVID beater

Nissan staff truly pulled out the stops to get the all-new 2021 Rogue into the market during the global pandemic. Rogue is the company's best-selling product in North America, by far - a testament to a well-considered overall package that designers, engineers and product planners have steadily evolved and improved since the model's launch in 2007. Now in its third generation (coded T33), the latest Rogue is underpinned by Nissan's C/D-segment architecture that shares more geometries with Sentra, itself a vastly upgraded and improved vehicle for 2021.

“Last March, I was reviewing our program schedules and it looked like everything was going to get delayed due to Covid,” said Chris Reed, executive VP of R&D at Nissan Technical Center in Farmington, Mich. “At this time, we had delays in other programs due to a ‘development overload’ situation between suppliers and prototypes. The hatches were being battened down.