“It's like one group of engineers work on the front and one on the back and they never spoke to each other once,” he said. Andrew MacLean felt it was “ fidgety over patchy surfaces and is upset by big bumps”, while Mark Short said the Navara was “not very confidence inspiring”. Putting the Navara to the test against key rivals in 2015, Sam Charlwood said it was “ way off the pace”, “struggles under weight” and that “the rear sag (pictured below) causes the vehicle to fidget and even wallow”. We’ve never seen that from a dual-cab ute, and those traits didn’t go down well with the team at Drive. Slow steering and the soft rear end felt odd under load, particularly when its rear suspension would compress so much that the suspension’s bump stops (pictured below, and cheekily renamed ‘dynamic rebound dampers’ by Nissan) would be in contact with the chassis even when parked. As the model was being built in Thailand (where utes and ute-based vehicles represent more than half of new vehicle sales), the suspension was tuned to be softer than Australians might like. Nissan took a new approach when developing the current-generation Navara ahead of its 2015 debut in Australia, swapping conventional leaf suspension for car-like coil springs in the rear end. We’ve said it before and we will say it again: Australians ask a lot of our utes.ĭual-cab pick-ups are expected to look tough, match four-wheel-drives in the bush, carry a tonne in the tray, tow more than three tonnes and offer car-like comfort on the road.
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