Nissan confirmed a clean-diesel version of the Nissan Maxima for 2010 back in April 2007. Now that the new redesigned 2009 Nissan Maxima is here, the long-awaited first clean diesel for the U.S. from Nissan may debut with a manual-only transmission.

Why only manual? Well the new M9R diesel that Nissan announced last week gets its extra power from a turbocharger. According to Yo Usuba, senior vice president in charge of powertrains, Nissan feels that the lag between stepping on the accelerator and feeling the turbo kick-in for on a diesel may turn away buyers.

The solution would be to pair the turbodiesel with a manual transmissions since manuals offer a more fluid acceleration than automatics.

The Nissan clean-diesel X-Trail SUV, which arrives on the Japanese market in September, will also be offered in manual only.

According to Nissan, the new M9R 2.0L 4-cylinder engine is expected to offer 20 percent better gas mileage than its 2.0L gasoline engine counterpart.

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  • justmatt
    I like manuals, but Nissan needs to worry about those headlights turning off customers and not automatic transmissions.
  • lonesome_coder
    From the article:

    Why only manual? Well the new M9R diesel that Nissan announced last week gets its extra power from a turbocharger. According to Yo Usuba, senior vice president in charge of powertrains, Nissan feels that the lag between stepping on the accelerator and feeling the turbo kick-in for on a diesel may turn away buyers.



    They also thought the same thing about the xtronic CVT, so they only slapped it on the new (at the time) Murano.

    Sometimes you guess wrong...
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