New Nissan NP300 Navara plays dirty - The Sunshine Coast Daily
2015 Nissan NP300 Navara Road Test . THE Australian utility market battleground just keeps getting tastier. Hot on the heels of the new Mitsubishi Triton's launch and Toyota's reveal of its new HiLux (arriving in October), Nissan has come to the party with its all-new NP300 Navara. The workhorse D22 Series has been with us since 1997, while the familiar D40 Series arrived in 2005, and despite its continued popularity, the demand for ever more car-like abilities and features means the new Navara is a timely arrival to keep up... With Navara accounting for 30% of all Australian Nissan sales, the pressure is on to keep customers away from Triton and HiLux, the goal-kicking Ford Ranger, relative new boy VW Amarok, Mazda BT-50 and a host of others. Matching class-leading towing capacity at 3500kg and with class-leading diesel fuel economy, the new Navara makes a good start on paper. For 2015, there will be 27 different variants (16 four-wheel drive and 11 two-wheel drive) with the dual cabs available now, and the dual cab chassis, single cab and king cab variants touching down in September. We tested the 4x4 Dual Cab RX, ST and ST-X variants on rural tarmac roads around Adelaide and over dirt tracks in the Gawler Ranges. Source: www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au
