The New Shape Navara (D40)

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Pretty good in some softer areas Ben - but you'll have little traction if you put if on an angle like in your rig pic.

Robin Miller

Hi Ben I sold my nissan patrol and replaced it with a d40 2.5 diesel and have clocked up 35000 klm and love it . excellent performance and great economy
Texas

Have a look at the Bitsaremissin Triton.

Good gear

Thanks for all the replies, muchly appreciated...

Regards,
Ben

Ben
I have had a D40 6speed diesel for nealy 12months now and love it, sounds like your usage would be much the same as mine which is just camping trips when possible and nothing extreme. I manage to get away for a week about every 2months and tow a camper trailer usually up the beach and the D40 does it with ease, comfort and economically. The way the rear seats fold is a great idea giving plenty of room and this is where my fridge goes. No problems so far except when I allowed the battery to go flat when parked in 4x4, its a good idea not to do this.
I have heard and read of the problems they had but these were assembly problems to earlier releases mainly in other countries and now seem to be well sorted.
Chris

There was a recent comparo on either drive.com, carsales.com.au, or autoweb which compared the latest utes.

Their comments about the 2.5 Navara was that it really needed the 6 speed box due to the narrow power band, and from memory they liked the Mitsi best even though the styling is pretty gross.

You could always look at the Actyon if you like gross styling :)

HEY.....Actyons have feeling to you know.....

Tha bad thing is they don't make paper bags big enough.

A mate of my best freinds brother over heard 2 guys talking at the pub last week about the new Navara, they said they would not have one at all, some thing about @^%$&*((^%$@#@#$^&*()())_).

Only joking we have a current model Hilux D4D its a great 4X4, the Navera was not released then, there are things I hate about the Navara but there is things I hate about the Hilux too.

Best thing to do is on the same day take all 3 (Navara, Triton and Hilux) for a drive then make your decision...it will be always the wrong one with someone.

When you have made your mind up get it over night and take it for a good drive around town, hiway and off road if you can.

All the the new ones are a big improvment over the older ones.

Regards Richard