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Nissan Navara vs Isuzu D-Max

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Nissan Navara
Nissan Navara

$33,050 - $70,765

2024 price

Isuzu D-Max
Isuzu D-Max

$32,200 - $67,500

2024 price

Summary

2024 Nissan Navara
2024 Isuzu D-Max
Safety Rating

Engine Type
Diesel Twin Turbo 4, 2.3L

Diesel Turbo 4, 3.0L
Fuel Type
Diesel

Diesel
Fuel Efficiency
8.1L/100km (combined)

8.0L/100km (combined)
Seating
5

5
Dislikes
  • Interior feels dated
  • Noisy when pressured
  • Punchier engine wouldn't hurt

  • Less creature comforts than some rivals
  • Lacklustre software
  • Distance-limited warranty
2024 Nissan Navara Summary

Nissan Australia and Melbourne-based vehicle engineering company, Premcar, have very successfully combined forces to create finessed versions of the Navara and Patrol as part of their on-going Warrior program.

Premcar has proven it can be entrusted with crucial conversion work, engineering upgrades and the fitment of adventure-ready accessories to add real value to Nissan’s 4WDs.

That’s all well and good but we had a burning question: How will a Nissan Navara Pro-4X Warrior perform if the weather turns bad, the roads are flooded, tracks are washed out… and your two teenaged kids are in the back seat ready to punch the living daylights out of each other?

Well, with that in mind we embarked on a 3500km trip from Sydney to South-East Queensland and back to put this ute through a series of difficult challenges, some planned, some not. 

We dodged around the wild edge of Tropical Cyclone Jasper, we fought our way through extreme electrical storms, and we drove in knee-deep river sand to avoid rapidly rising floodwaters.

So, how did this adventure-ready ute go?

Read on.

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2024 Isuzu D-Max Summary

Isuzu, in one form or another, is Japan’s oldest automaker. So, it shouldn’t be surprising the brand sits so far up the Australian sales charts. But it's success remains surprising because the local line-up consists of only two passenger cars, the MU-X SUV and D-Max ute.

The off-road space is now the most tightly contested in Australia, with droves of buyers looking to get into a dual cab, and with hot competition like the shiny new Ford Ranger and ever-popular Toyota HiLux, how is it Isuzu manages to maintain such a position at the forefront of buyers' minds?

To find out, I took a D-Max for a spin outside of its Australian comfort zone in New Zealand’s snowy Otago region.

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