The 2026 Nissan Rogue Gets Nissan's First Canadian Plug-In Hybrid — and a Full Redesign Lands Next Year — Rated 7/10

Timing matters with this one. The Rogue on sale today is the current generation, and it is good. But Nissan Canada announced in April that an all-new 2027 Rogue with third-generation e-POWER hybrid technology debuts in late 2026. Anyone buying now is buying one model year ahead of a full redesign, and that is worth knowing before signing.

What is on the lot is a five-trim gasoline range plus a plug-in hybrid. The S opens at $34,848, or $37,697 as a selling price once $2,080 of freight and pre-delivery inspection and the associated fees are added. Above it sit the SV Moonroof at $38,698, the Dark Armor at $41,098, the Rock Creek at $42,048 and the Platinum at $46,648. None of those figures is net of incentives.

Every one of them is all-wheel drive. Nissan Canada offers exactly one configuration per grade — AWD with a continuously variable transmission — and there is no front-drive Rogue sold here.

The engine remains one of the more interesting things in the segment: a 1.5-litre variable-compression turbocharged three-cylinder producing 201 horsepower and 225 pound-feet, which Nissan describes as the world's first production variable-compression engine. It returns 7.6 litres per 100 kilometres combined on most trims and 8.0 on the all-terrain-tired Rock Creek.

The plug-in hybrid is new to Canada and deserves careful description, because it is not simply a Rogue with a battery. Nissan calls it the company's first plug-in hybrid in this country. It arrives in Platinum trim only at $58,698, makes 248 horsepower and 322 pound-feet, and is quoted at 61 kilometres of electric range and 679 kilometres in total. Two caveats: Nissan describes that range figure only as Nissan-estimated and names no test standard, so this desk will not attribute it to one; and the plug-in is mechanically a different vehicle from the gasoline car, sharing its engineering with the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, right down to a smaller screen and a nine-speaker stereo where the gasoline Platinum has twelve-point-three inches and ten.

Practicality is a strength. Cargo runs 1,033 litres behind the second row and 2,098 with it folded on cars without the moonroof, seating is for five, and towing is rated at 680 kilograms.

Equipment splits at the top. Lower trims get an eight-inch touchscreen; the Platinum adds a 12.3-inch display, a 12.3-inch digital cluster, a head-up display, Google built-in and a ten-speaker Bose system. Safety Shield 360 — automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, blind-spot warning, rear cross-traffic alert, lane departure warning, high-beam assist and rear automatic braking — is standard on every grade. ProPILOT Assist is standard from the SV upward but is not available on the base S. Nissan Canada's 2026 materials do not specify which version of ProPILOT is fitted, so we are not claiming the hands-off 2.1 system that debuted on the 2025 car.

The commercial picture is two-sided. The Rogue was Canada's eighth best-selling vehicle overall in 2025 at 36,034 units, up 10.1 per cent. But Nissan's own first-quarter 2026 report shows it down 8.49 per cent year over year, in a division down 11.56 per cent. It remains Nissan's highest-volume nameplate in Canada.

A 7/10 from the Torbrook Rating Agency reflects a well-equipped, efficient compact SUV with standard all-wheel drive and a genuinely novel engine, marked by the awkward fact that its replacement has already been shown. The specifications above are Nissan's; the score is ours.