New Nissan Navara teased – with a catch

An all-new replacement for the Nissan Navara is due in Australia next year, but the ute teased by Nissan overnight is a facelifted version of the current model – which will continue to be sold in Latin America – not the Mitsubishi Triton-based model that will be released here in 2026.

At an event held last yesterday, Nissan’s chief product planning officer and soon-to-be CEO, Ivan Espinosa, detailed many of the new and updated products the carmaker is planning to launch globally during the 2025 and 2026 Japanese financial years – so, basically, between now and the first quarter of 2027.

According to Nissan, it will launch an “all-new one-ton pickup” that builds on “Nissan’s partnership with Mitsubishi Motors” in Australia during the 2026 Japanese financial year. Oddly, the company doesn’t refer to this car as a Navara.

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As part of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance’s ‘leader-follower’ product development model, Mitsubishi is responsible for the engineering of our new Navara and Nissan is in charge of its styling.

While both the latest Triton and the new Navara will share their underpinnings and a factory in Thailand, it’s unclear how much exterior and interior differentiation the two vehicles will have.

Also during the 2026 Japanese financial year, Nissan will launch a revised Navara/Frontier model in Latin America. This model was teased during the automaker’s product presentation overnight.

This Navara/Frontier sports a new front-end design with three LED light bars integrated into the sides of a large grille. This car intriguingly has carry-over wing mirrors but newly squared-off wheel-arches.

Nissan’s announcement regarding the Latin American Navara/Frontier makes no mention of Mitsubishi connections. Instead, it talks up its “evolved design, enhanced infotainment and impressive suite of advanced driver assist technologies”, suggesting it will be a substantial facelift of the current D23/NP300 model.

If so, this could mean Nissan will have three different mid-sized utes globally.

Of most importance to us is the upcoming Thai-built model which will share its underpinnings with the Mitsubishi Triton launched in 2023.

Then there’s Latin American Navara – also sold as the Frontier or NP300 depending on the country – based on the D23 model that began production in 2014.

And finally there’s the Frontier sold in the US, Canada, and Mexico. This Mississippi-built ute traces its roots back to the second-generation (D40) Navara, launched back in 2004. A redesign in 2022 gave the Frontier a new, longer body, and a more modern interior.

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