Nissan Navara 2026: Future Toyota Hilux and Ford Ranger rival will make its global debut in November

Right this moment, Nissan confirmed that the next period of Navara will doubtless be publicly published to global markets on the nineteenth of November. The Japanese automaker furthermore confirmed that Aussies and Kiwis will doubtless be ready to characterize a fifth-period Navara by mid-2025.

The announcement became as soon as paired with a transient teaser video, which exiguous print the history of Nissan utes in Australia, and claims the next-period model will ‘defy customary’.

What’s been promised is a motive-constructed ute for the Australian market, one which builds on the aptitude and robustness of old generations, its maker claims. What each person is conscious of is that the contemporary Navara will doubtless be largely per the most contemporary-period Mitsubishi Triton.

Already confirmed for the next period of Navara is a one-tonne payload functionality, a recent contemporary face, a recent “enhanced” infotainment system, and a collection of latest driver assistance solutions no longer supplied in the most contemporary period.

That’s a gross sales pitch we’ve heard before, with Toyota’s hotly anticipated next-period Hilux furthermore having a stumble on to be a comprehensive facelift in want to a wholly contemporary beast.

Both of these cherished Japanese utes will should always expose themselves in opposition to competent contemporary-blood rivals Ford Ranger, Kia Tasman, and the BYD Shark 6, which is able to develop to be increasingly more relevant as a PHEV ute benchmark following tighter emission authorized guidelines.

We are in a position to picture from the silhouette that the next-gen Navara will proceed to market as a dual-cab, bath-tray, fleshy-dimension ute, and we’re having a wager on either Mitsubishi’s upmarket 150kW/470Nm ‘four or Nissan’s 140kW/450Nm ‘four to be below the bonnet. Both engines are turbo-diesels.

Nissan hasn’t published which gearbox will prevail in the next-period Navara. Across Mitsubishi and Nissan, there’s a collection of six- or seven-roam automatics, or a six-roam handbook. Quiz on hand solutions to be paired with a rugged four-wheel-drive system, naturally.

Both the Navara and Triton have been toying with the concept that of tear-in energy, and a next-period is also the kick in the pants to see this thought reach to mild. We’ve already seen an completely operational Nissan PHEV ute on expose at Auto Shanghai.

That ute, assuredly known as the Frontier Professional, has no ties to Mitsubishi, and as an different looks a competent re-modelling of China’s Dongfeng Z9. We’ll soon stumble on if this powerplant is on the playing cards.

In Mitsubishi’s case, the Triton PHEV is an thought that has been publicly acknowledged, with a Mitsubishi spokesperson telling Chasing Cars closing year that “PHEV and utterly different kinds of hybridisation are below see for Triton”.

Chasing Cars anticipates that many powertrain, styling, and automobile dynamics questions will doubtless be answered when the Navara is formally published on the nineteenth of November this year.