We are planning to change my wife’s Toyota Rav4 for a Nissan Qashqai, but the only automatic version has a 1.6 diesel engine. I think I recall that when Nissan introduced the 1.6 diesel on the old Qashqai you said it was unlikely to have DPF problems because it was designed to heat up quickly. I also understood that the automatic gearbox then used could not cope with the torque.

I can’t get much information from the Nissan salesmen and wonder whether this is the same engine and whether it is relatively free from DPF problems?