2015 Nissan Murano: Real World Review - Yahoo Autos (blog)
Not as smooth as a Pathfinder or nimble as a Mazda CX-5, the handling strikes a lukewarm middle ground that’s as memorable as picking up the keys to a midsize-something from Avis. Sure, I have more fun flogging my dad’s 2008 Honda Odyssey, but it’s a compliant cruiser, thanks to the comfy “Zero Gravity seats. Its 21 city / 28 highway mpg is in the same ballpark as other midsize SUVs, but even in all highway driving the most I could wring out was 26 mpg, and I averaged 25 mpg overall logging nearly 900 miles. With the car-like ground clearance that has you scraping on steep driveways, and an AWD system that lacks torque vectoring, the Murano’s idea of adventuring is picking up mulch from the local hardware store. But there’s more space for all your suburban hauling, with cargo volume growing to 39. 6 cubic feet, which puts it between the Jeep Grand Cherokee’s 36. 3 and the Honda Pilot’s 46. 8. At this size you’d start expecting a third row of seats though,... On the SL trim and up you get the Around View Monitor pulled from the Infiniti, giving a 360-degree view when pulling in and out of spots, making it the best parking assist available. The overzealously beeping Blind Spot Warning compensates for the sizable blockage created by the “floating roof”. Source: www.yahoo.com
