Nissan Tekton Lands at Rs 10.5m — Worth It Over a Used X-Trail?

AMW has just brought Nissan's new Tekton SUV into Sri Lanka, with prices starting around Rs 10.49 million for the base manual T160 and running up to about Rs 18.6 million for the fully loaded automatic T280. There's even an experience centre at Majestic City running through December, with AMW pushing the 10.1" touchscreen, 360° camera and a long list of ADAS features as the reason to pick this over the usual suspects. Some buyers will say a brand-new SUV with a strong safety rating and a proper warranty beats rolling the dice on a reconditioned Qashqai or X-Trail with a mystery accident history, especially with leasing this expensive right now. Others will say you're paying new-car money for a model with zero track record here — no idea how the turbo-DCT combo copes with our traffic, our fuel, or our garages, and resale value is a total guess until someone actually tries to sell one in three years. If you had Rs 13-18 million to spend on an SUV today, would you take the gamble on something untested, or buy proven secondhand and pocket the difference? Tell us what you'd actually do with that budget. අලුත් මොඩලයක් ගන්න සල්ලි තියෙනකොට, පරීක්ෂා කරලා නැති කාරයක් ගන්නද, නැත්නම් පරණ, ඔප්පු වුන එකක් ගන්නද?