An all-new Nissan Altima will go on sale later this year as a 2019 model after Nissan takes the wraps off the newest sedan in its lineup at the New York auto show at the end of March.

The 2019 Altima will replace the fifth-gen model that has been on sale since 2012. Nissan renews its family four-door following a redesign of the larger Maxima in 2015.

Nissan is keeping design that traditional buyers love

What can we expect from the new Altima when it comes to design? The Nissan Vmotion 2.0 concept unveiled at the Detroit auto show in 2017 (seen above) gives a few hints about design direction. You can bet that the production version of the sedan will wear the new vertical V-motion grille. It will likely skip the faceted side surfaces of the concept in favor of more slabby door panels. No big surprise there — Nissan will aim to keep the design appealing to traditional buyers — but one interesting departure from the looks of the current model will be a more fastback roof profile, leading to a relatively tall trunk lid with a spoiler bill. This means it will havr more headroom for rear seat passengers. It will also have longer rear doors that will reach farther into the C-pillar to help ingress and egress. And we wouldn’t rule out the Altima adopting the floating-roof C-pillar element of the larger Maxima.

Nissan is keeping design that traditional buyers love

When the sixth-generation Altima goes on sale, it will do so in a climate that is different from the one its immediate predecessor found when it debuted. Midsize sedans have lost ground to SUVs and crossovers of all sizes, with automakers scrambling to field a greater variety of taller vehicles. Still, Nissan sold just under a quarter of a million Altimas in 2017, and the Altima still made it into the top 20 selling vehicles in the U.S., landing in the 13th spot after segment favorites such as the Honda Accord, Civic, and Toyota Corolla and Camry.

We’ll see the all-new Altima in the metal in New York at the end of March.