Nissan Navara D22 ST-R

Hey Scott, a mate of mine was 4wdind at a quarry not far from you in his D22 3.0litre turbo and rolled it about 6 weeks ago. He loved his D22 and said he was going to get another. BUT he went and bought the D40 instead and said they are like chalk a cheese. He reconds the D40 is more comfy than the older D22 and I must admit it seems more comfy when I have diven it compaired to the D22 he had. It is so much more capable offroad compared to the D22. Places where you had to give the D22 a fair bit of right foot to get through the D40 just walks through no worries at all. So it might be worth checking out the D40 as well. Mate reconds the D22 is a farmers ute with a few extras to get it more marketable, where the D40 is more of a family offroader.

Mr Blue wrote:

Thats fast changing Bruce with common rail injection, VGT turbos, compound turbo charging etc they go well now for what they are, certainly better then years gone by.

And they have changed the name to diesels as well now :laugh:

TB

Nickj wrote:

A late model secondhand Hilux will be a lot easier to sell than a late model secondhand Navara.
I would be test driving a new Hilux as well.

Gotowo

Trailboss wrote:

You are right, we have a couple of turbo dIEsel sedans here at work now, and while no 1/4 mile burners they go significantly better and get great mileage compared to the older turbo injector style engines, but still not a thing I’d drive for fun.
But as an everyday driver i agree most certainly.

(Still prefer a free breathing modded 32 valve quad cam petrol with a good exhaust and aftermarket tune…, more fun, but we won’t speak of mileage)

I reckon having had both the Hilux & Navara dIEsels for a few years eaxch in recent years, the hilux while great vehicle is NOT worth the premium commanded for them, the difference is just not that great.
And I actually reckon the Ford ranger(ahem, cough cough) is a better one altogether, we just replaced a whole fleet of hiluxes (and the fleet manager is toyota all the way) with half rangers/ half Colarados, both seem like excellent vehicles, but bloody heck the Rangers get along very smoothly (for a dIEsel)

My new neighbor has a Dark grey Navara Platinum edition dual cab I dont know what its worth but has 20 or so ks on it hard back looks very nice.It must be about a year old if that. He said he was thinking about sell it. Dont know how that would fit in your price bracket. Could be way more but I dont know what they are worth. PM me if you want me to ask any questions.