new patrol price reductions

With many dealers still trying to get rid of 2012 stock and sales of about 10 a month Australian wide, they have been negotiating down to $60-65k since December in the eastern states. The head of Nissan Australia was quoted as saying 20 sales per month would be good. That's about the same as the number of Landcrusiers that Toyota sell by morning tea every day.

Nissan have also cancelled sponsorship of 4wd events that they have been involved with for years like Beyond Hotham. Even Pat Callinhan's 4x4 appears to have dropped the Nissan branding in the last month or so.

With negligible sales of the Y62, GU ceasing production next year, Pathfinder going to a soft roader petrol only model, and New Navara dropping the V6 and having a 2.3l 140kw 45onm diesel as the most powerful power plant, they are really exiting the Australian 4wd market.

Pity. Lots of people were hanging out for a V6 diesel GU. That would be a great 4wdBut instead of keeping the GU and adding the V6, Nissan chose to drop the V6 and drop the GU.

Obviously Nissan are only focused on the Middle East and US for larger vehicles, and that means Petrol only. Australia is left out in the cold.

Yes they have been very cheap for some time now Pepper - actually had a brand new one pass me other day and I didn't recognize it , then I speed up and got close enough to read the name , never had to do that before with Patrols.

Your observations are why I analysed the market in 2011 and brought the last ever 4800 petrol GU.

GUs are the car of choice around here and with 12 years of history they will be good for years yet however I do wonder about next car I get.

Some of this stuff and reasons why people buy cars is quite interesting - last week the Herald sun here had a large article on Discoveries and showed that there purchases are lead by lady drivers, who couldn't give a stuff if the couldn't get a fan belt at Birdsville.
This apparently got analysts at land rover all worked up because they had so badly miss understood there own market.
Nissan could do no better , to not bring out the V6 in the GU was a brain dead descision.

This is also my problem with a new Patrol - its a great car and in recent tests had almost no fuel use difference from 200 series in a Sydney Simpson/Mt Dare return trip.
But with those sales it will never have the knowedge base/spares availaility outback/add aftermarket bits backing of the GU.
If you can't work on it or get a fan belt at Birdsville etc, I don't want it.

4 Years after I brought my latest Patrol , my second choice a 200 series , can still be got at same $83k on road cost and one wonders if one should plan to buy one as they run them out which could only be a couple of years away.