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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.
Even when the once-suppressed company car tax leaps for pick-ups in April 2007, it'll still be much cheaper to run a Navara than a Pathfinder as a company car. And if you're VAT registered, you can claim that chunk back, a big reason this market as exploded the way it has.
Even without this, though, it's still a cost-effective package: servicing intervals are three times longer than before at 18,000 miles/two years and, despite the two-tonne kerb weight, economy is decent 29mpg combined. It used to be in the early thirties, but in meeting the Euro4 emissions ratings, that's now fallen. Which is somewhat ironic.
Demand for second-hand pick-ups is strong, keeping residual values high - and the Navara is the most popular of the lot on the used market. Over three years, it'll hold its value as well as a BMW, if not better. All in all, it's a better value-for-money proposition than its less popular Pathfinder equivalent.
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wrote on 01 02 2007