NEXT STAGE: Redesign in 2021

The midsize crossover is up for a redesign in the first half of 2021. The next Pathfinder will ride on the revised D platform and carry over the current 3.5-liter V-6 engine, but it will dump Nissan’s finicky continuously variable transmission in favor of a nine-speed automatic transmission. The crossover will see a major exterior and interior redesign. “Nothing is recognizable from the current version,” said a source familiar with product plans. “There’s not one bit of that car that would remind you of the current Pathfinder.”