Looks like the Nissan Navara is set to receive a facelift, as an NP300 has been spotted in Thailand wearing a different mask. The image above, posted by Headlightmag, shows Nissan’s one-tonne pick-up truck with a larger front grille. The grille extends deeper down the bumper now, and there’s a very thick chrome bezel for three of its sides. The shape of the headlamps aren’t significantly different, but the housing on this lower spec example (halogen reflectors, plain wheels) appear darkened.
The Navara minor change bumper has also
been reprofiled, with the fog lamp cutouts switching from horizontal to
vertical, with straight cut sides for a square jaw look. This new face might or
might not be familiar to you, but if you’ve seen it somewhere before, it’s a
look borrowed from the huge Nissan Titan truck sold in North America.
Surprisingly, this will be the first
facelift for the NP300 Navara, which made its world debut in Thailand in 2014
(it arrived in Malaysia in November 2015). In those six years, a generation of
Toyota Hilux has come, and received two facelifts in the process. There have
been a couple of special editions, but that was it for the Nissan truck.
Word is that the Navara MC will switch to
the 2.3 litre twin-turbocharged diesel powering the current Terra seven-seater
that’s based on Navara underpinnings. In the SUV, the YS23DDTT oil burner makes
190 PS at 3,750 rpm, and 450 Nm from 1,500 to 2,500 rpm. 190 PS and 450 Nm is
what the outgoing Navara’s 2.5L does. The seven-speed automatic transmission
should continue serving.
