India, Nov. 20 -- Nissan enters the already very tight, and super competitive, sub-4m compact-SUV segment with the all-new Magnite. Too little too late? Or does the Magnite have something special up its sleeve? We find out...

If there's one segment that's not going to go out of favour anytime soon, it has to be the sub-4m compact-SUV segment. It's a segment that's hardly a decade old, but at the moment, it's the space where all the action is. The Ford EcoSport is still soldiering on after all these years, the Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza, Tata Nexon and Mahindra XUV300 are doing pretty well for a while, and then you have the segment-leading Korean duo of Hyundai Venue and Kia Sonet.

All in all, the sub-4m compact-SUV segment is a pretty ti...