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Hard-working, huge load bed, spacious cabin, scads of equipment, plenty of power, good value.
Too vast for some, awful turning circle, not as tight to drive as rivals.
Best for space, power, presence and equipment, but the Mitsubishi L200 is more wieldy and better to drive.
On one hand the Nissan Navara is a traditional pick-up with a one-tonne payload and crude truck underpinnings, but on the other it it's a serious SUV rival.
In the current pick-up boom, the Navara has overtaken the formerly dominant Mitsubishi L200 thanks to its Detroit-inspired looks (it's actually based on Nissan's full-size US truck, the Titan), superlative equipment levels and generous space.
Nine out of 10 Navaras sold are double cabs and of them half are the top-spec Aventura. Laden with standard leather, sat nav, Bluetooth hands-free phone connection, automatic lights, rain-sensing windscreen wipers and cruise control, this is one commercial that demands not to be typecast as such.
Powered by the same 2.5-litre common-rail diesel as sits in the closely related Pathfinder SUV, the Navara was launched in August 2005 but is still subject to waiting lists at the dealers.
New changes for the 2007 model year include Euro4 tweaks to the diesel that actually cut power from 172bhp to 169bhp, meaning it now has to share the title of most powerful pick-up with the Toyota Hilux 3.0.
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wrote on 01 02 2007