2024 Nissan Rogue Up Close: Sleeker Looks, Upsized Touchscreen
The Nissan Rogue is one of Cars.com’s favorite compact SUVs, nabbing back-to-back first-place finishes in our Compact SUV Challenge comparison tests. As Nissan’s bestselling vehicle, it’s also very important to the company’s bottom line. For 2024, the Rogue gets a refresh that nets it a flashier-looking front end and an overhauled infotainment system, and I checked them out in person at the 2023 Los Angeles Auto Show.
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A Sleeker-Looking Face
The Rogue gets a mild styling refresh with new wheel designs, gloss-black exterior trim on the top-of-the-line Platinum trim and face-lifted front-end styling that brings a slightly sleeker look. The new grille is an updated version of Nissan’s V-Motion design; it does away with the previous thick, U-shaped chrome trim at the grille’s base in favor of slim, horizontal bars with a dark-chrome finish at their ends. In person, the front-end styling looks more swept back than before, and it also bears more of a family resemblance to the brand’s Ariya all-electric compact SUV.
Upsized Infotainment Touchscreen
In our 2023 Compact SUV Challenge, one of the Rogue’s few shortcomings was that its 9-inch infotainment screen (which comes standard on the top-line Platinum trim) was one of the smallest screens in the test. Nissan is rectifying that with the 2024 Rogue, but only on the top two trim levels: The SL and Platinum get a 12.3-inch touchscreen that also switches to a Google Built-In interface while the other trim levels stick with Nissan’s infotainment software and the 8-inch touchscreen offered before.
A bigger touchscreen is almost always a good thing. The new Rogue’s screen is indeed notably wider than before, but not so tall that it intrudes on the view out the windshield. However, we’re not entirely sold on the virtues of the Google Built-In interface at this point; we’ve experienced glitchy behavior — including spotty Bluetooth phone connectivity, unreliable voice controls and the occasional system freeze — in Chevrolet and Volvo vehicles we’ve tested with the system. And since the Rogue Platinum I examined on the show floor wasn’t able to be turned on, I couldn’t sample even the basic layout of Nissan’s version of the system. We look forward to testing the new interface on our first test drives of the 2024 Rogue.
On the plus side, Nissan has resisted the urge to add touch-sensitive virtual buttons — the climate controls are still physical controls. The interior trim is also subtly updated with some new colors and textures, and it looks and feels as nice as ever, at least in the Platinum trim. A few of the Platinum’s desirable features trickle down to the SL; in addition to the new 12.3-inch touchscreen, the SL also gains a wireless device charging pad and 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster as standard equipment. The Rogue’s other virtues and vices should be largely the same as the 2023 model’s; you can check out our full 2023 Rogue Platinum road test for more information.
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Pricing and Release Date
The 2024 Nissan Rogue is slated to go on sale in early 2024, and pricing will be released closer to its on-sale date. Our jury is still out on Nissan’s shift in infotainment-system strategy, but the upsized touchscreen is at least a plus. The Rogue’s other updates should keep it fresh in the minds of compact SUV shoppers.
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