Nissan Elgrand, any thoughts ?

[TheTigerUK]

I have followed a few of these while out and about and looked a couple over in car parks and to me they look pretty decent ?

I fancy something along these lines for a few months of the year, May to September or for the whole summer, both weeks :) to do day trips, pick nicks etc for my wife and me plus our two small (spoiled) dogs.

Any thoughts/recommendations good or bad ?

[magpie215]

My Brother in law had one a 3.5L about as thirsty on juice as you would expect.

The VQ engine is a peach and usually considered bombproof.

Check out the many many posts about the secondary cats in the exhaust.

Lovely well specced JDM cars.

I've just recently rejoined the grey import club with this Honds Stepwagon

[ellsy_79]

i would love an elgrand for exploring the country and even europe, interesting to see if you follow through as it’s always been a fantasy of mine but never really followed through

[TaketheCannoli]

I think they look great fun. This one looks pretty decent value:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...02109067067438

[Shrek]

We have had one for a couple of years and think it is absolutely fantastic! It is not our only vehicle but the amount of stuff it can carry (either 8 people or basically a medium size van with seats up) is fantastic. My builder friend sometimes asks me to moves stuff that wont fit in his crew cab transit. Ours is the E51 (2nd generation) 3.5l and although it is thirsty it can shift for such a large vehicle. I love driving it, quite quick but rather wallowy but I still find it fun. One thing to watch is the tyres it comes on, they are all Japanese imports and ours came on winter tyres which were very 'entertaining' in normal UK conditions. One oddity that I love is that the internal clock is linked to the GPS and always show the time in Tokyo with no way to change the time zone that I've been able to find.

[mindforge]

I think they look great fun. This one looks pretty decent value:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-det...02109067067438

A friend of mine has one and loves it. Looks like a bus compared ot my Volvo Xc90! That one looks like amazing value.

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[TheFlyingBanana]

Whenever we’ve been to Florida we have rented Dodge day vans - very similar and loved them. I think at the price these ElGrands are, for a useful fun multipurpose vehicle you couldn’t go wrong.

This thread has made me quite tempted!

[BillyCasper]

I’ve seen them with pop up roofs. Is that a factory built day-van option (like the Mazda Bongo) or an after market conversion?

When I’ve seen them, they look quite tidy, seem to hold up with the passing of time.


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[hilly10]

My mate has had four of them over the years and swears by them, but he always complained how thirsty they are. I think it’s the same engine as the 350Z, no wonder

[ralphy]

No experience of Elgrands, but I first started with this type of vehicle by getting a Mitsubishi Spacewagon and then changed over to Honda Stepwagons, of which we had three over the years and finally ended up with a Toyota Alphard. All of them were excellent for reliability and proved ideal for our lifestyle. The Alphard was the most luxurious of them all, I'd imported it myself from Japan and when it was sold it went for more than I'd paid for it.

My advice would be to choose the supplier carefully, there are many UK importers around and frankly some of them seemed rather suspect to me. If buying privately look for one that has all the relevent import paperwork and evidence of specialist servicing since it'd arrived.

R