An all-new substitute for the Nissan Navara is due in Australia subsequent 12 months, however the ute teased by Nissan in a single day is a facelifted model of the present mannequin – which is able to proceed to be offered in Latin America – not the Mitsubishi Triton-based mannequin that will likely be launched right here in 2026.
At an occasion held final yesterday, Nissan’s chief product planning officer and soon-to-be CEO, Ivan Espinosa, detailed lots of the new and up to date merchandise the carmaker is planning to launch globally throughout the 2025 and 2026 Japanese monetary years – so, mainly, between now and the primary quarter of 2027.
In keeping with Nissan, it can launch an “all-new one-ton pickup” that builds on “Nissan’s partnership with Mitsubishi Motors” in Australia throughout the 2026 Japanese monetary 12 months. Oddly, the corporate doesn’t discuss with this automotive as a Navara.
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Present Australian Navara
As a part of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance’s ‘leader-follower’ product growth mannequin, Mitsubishi is liable for the engineering of our new Navara and Nissan is answerable for its styling.
Whereas each the most recent Triton and the brand new Navara will share their underpinnings and a manufacturing facility in Thailand, it’s unclear how a lot exterior and inside differentiation the 2 autos may have.
Additionally throughout the 2026 Japanese monetary 12 months, Nissan will launch a revised Navara/Frontier mannequin in Latin America. This mannequin was teased throughout the automaker’s product presentation in a single day.
This Navara/Frontier sports activities a brand new front-end design with three LED mild bars built-in into the edges of a big grille. This automotive intriguingly has carry-over wing mirrors however newly squared-off wheel-arches.
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Nissan Frontier
Nissan’s announcement concerning the Latin American Navara/Frontier makes no point out of Mitsubishi connections. As an alternative, it talks up its “developed design, enhanced infotainment and spectacular suite of superior driver help applied sciences”, suggesting will probably be a considerable facelift of the present D23/NP300 mannequin.
In that case, this might imply Nissan may have three completely different mid-sized utes globally.
Of most significance to us is the upcoming Thai-built mannequin which is able to share its underpinnings with the Mitsubishi Triton launched in 2023.
Then there’s Latin American Navara – additionally offered because the Frontier or NP300 relying on the nation – primarily based on the D23 mannequin that started manufacturing in 2014.
And eventually there’s the Frontier offered within the US, Canada, and Mexico. This Mississippi-built ute traces its roots again to the second-generation (D40) Navara, launched again in 2004. A redesign in 2022 gave the Frontier a brand new, longer physique, and a extra fashionable inside.
