NISSAN has introduced a $67,490 plus on-road prices beginning value for the macho Navara Pro4-X Warrior flagship dual-cab ute, $9360 greater than the common Professional-4X on which it’s primarily based, forward of a September 1 showroom arrival.
The automated Warrior carries a $2500 premium, to price-match the auto-only and conceptually related Toyota HiLux Rugged X.
The additional spend over a daily top-spec Navara has elevated by $2820 in contrast with the earlier N-Trek Warrior flagship, which began at $62,990 earlier than on-road prices.
However the off-road oriented Warrior nonetheless seems to be like a relative cut price subsequent to the Ford Ranger Raptor ($77,690, auto-only).
Like its predecessor, the Pro4-X Warrior’s modifications had been engineered and examined in Australia by Premcar, with native terrain and situations in thoughts.
As a factory-sanctioned construct, the Pro4-X Warrior stays coated by Nissan’s five-year, unlimited-kilometre guarantee, with Premcar matching this protection for the upgrades it has utilized.
The Warrior once more rides 40mm larger than a typical Navara attributable to a 15mm suspension raise and 25mm of clearance added by the chunkier 275/70/R17 Cooper Discoverer AT3 tyres – with full-size alloy spare – that contribute to the entrance and rear tracks being 30mm wider than the donor Professional-4X.
Housing the massive tyres and including to the aggressive off-road look are black wheel arch extensions that add 45mm to the ute’s general width.
Floor clearance is 260mm, 8mm lower than the outdated Warrior. Nonetheless, the brand new winch-compatible bullbar with built-in mild bar improves the method angle from 32 levels to 36 – one diploma greater than the earlier Navara Warrior.
In case that’s not fairly sufficient, a purple Navara-branded bash plate and 3mm metal ‘second-stage safety plate’ protects a lot of the Warrior’s undercarriage whereas a Warrior-specific towbar mounting barely reduces departure angle, from 19.8 levels to 19.
The Warrior inherits the usual Navara’s 600mm wading depth, 100mm lower than a HiLux and 200mm inferior to a Ford Ranger, Isuzu D-Max or Mazda BT-50.
Beefier dampers have been fitted all spherical, with a 17 per cent enhance in tube diameter entrance and rear, and a 44 per cent enhance in rod diameter up entrance and 26 per cent on the rear.
Spring charges and damper settings have additionally been comprehensively overhauled in comparison with customary for improved trip consolation and street manners whereas higher dealing with off-road impacts and a extra settled drive when laden or towing.
Entrance bump stops have additionally been upgraded to enhance wheel management on the limits of articulation. The entire setup can be designed to take care of stability, given the raised centre of gravity, and helps arrest body-roll.
A 100kg gross automobile mass improve has helped offset the payload lower brought on by the burden of the Warrior’s modifications. Consequently, the guide can nonetheless haul 961kg and the automated 952 kg, each 52kg down on the common Professional-4X.
Ending off the transformation are Warrior decals and headrest embroidery
Modifications apart, the Warrior inherits the donor automotive’s customary gear listing, together with a 7.0-inch digital instrument panel and eight.0-inch touchscreen media system with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto smartphone mirroring, leather-accented seats with driver’s aspect energy adjustment, purple inside stitching and LED headlights.
Driver aids and energetic security tech comprise forward-collision warning, autonomous emergency braking, driver-attention monitor, lane-departure warning with lane-keep intervention, blind-spot monitoring with rear cross-traffic alert and surround-view cameras with off-road view.
Premcar engineering director Bernie Quinn described the brand new Navara flagship as “a real Warrior 2.0”.
“We got down to create probably the most succesful Navara ever, and this new Warrior is strictly that. It’s been engineered from the bottom as much as deal with the hardest terrain Australia can ship, all with out sacrificing consolation,” he mentioned.
“Any new mannequin ought to be a real evolution, and that’s precisely what we’ve achieved with this Warrior. It advantages from all of our learnings, our buyer suggestions, and from the enhancements made to the Navara Professional-4X, creating a brand new dual-cab ute that’s tailored for Australian situations.”
