If you want Petrol and Auto you will have to get used to lowish MPG, and high road tax. But think of the tax this way, its only £210 a year more than band K, which goes down to 200g/km, and will rule out almost anything that is interesting, petrol and auto. If you keep the car 5 years you will have spent just an extra £1,000 in tax, but depreciation will have been many times that. I think we avoid the cars with high VED rates because we dont like paying tax.
It took me a long time to get my head around it. i would happily buy a car in a higher insurance group and pay hundreds a year more, but i didnt want to pay the tax, because it was tax.
As for the fuel, how far will you drive? Any larger 4x4 auto will struggle to hit 30 mpg even if diesel, and if you dont go far the saving isnt huge. Yet diesels seem to carry a much higher failure risk than petrols these days. A Petrol Nissan should be a pretty safe place to put your money in terms of reliability.
So if you like the Murano, go for it
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