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Nissan Australia has announced that from August onwards the X-Trail soft-roader will be available with a fuel-sipping 2-litre turbodiesel engine mated to either a six-speed manual or a six-speed automatic.Fuel consumption is an admirable 7.4 litres per 100km with the oil-burner fitted, while there’s oodles more torque than the petrol model.

The automatic-equipped X-Trail dCi gets 110kW and 320Nm from its diesel four-pot, while the slightly more powerful manual gets 127kW and a respectable 360Nm of twist. While it’ll never win anything down at your local tractor-pull, those numbers still compare very favourably with the petrol model’s 125kW and 226Nm and is enough to give the manual-equipped diesel a towing capacity of some 2000kg.

The Renault-source M1D turbodiesel motor is sure to prove a big hit with consumers in this time of volatile fuel prices. Not only that, but the diesel’s prodigious amount of torque (90 per cent of which is available from as low as 1750rpm) also makes the X-Trail an excellent urban load-lugger.

Front, side and curtain airbags are included as standard on both the TS and TL model grades, as are ABS, stability control, and hill start and hill descent control. Standard mod cons include air conditioning, power windows and mirrors, cruise control, 17-inch alloys and a six-stacker CD player.

The Nissan X-TRAIL dCi TS starts at $36,990 for the manual and $38,990 for the automatic. The leather and sunroof-equipped TL models start from $39,990 for the self-shifter and $41,990 for the auto.