2015 Nissan Navara NP300 Review: ST-X 4×2 Dual-Cab - CarAdvice (blog)
No longer simple tools of trade, load-lugging dual-cabs, like the 2015 Nissan Navara NP300 ST-X , are regularly seeing double-duty as family haulers and status symbols. A dual-cab isn’t worth its salt today without a suite of airbags and a five-star ANCAP rating. You’d better offer car-like creature comforts such as touchscreen multimedia too. In many ways, it’s a similar but smaller deification of the ‘pick-up’ to what we’ve seen for generations in the US, where behemoths like the Ford F-150 roam the earth en masse. Look at the sales split of any major ute seller and you’ll see this phenomenon at work more than ever: Ford Ranger Wildtraks and XLTs, HiLux SR5s, Colorado Z71s, D-Max X-Runners… The list goes on. It’s this demarcation that is seeing a number of... Most will offer the rugged, entry-level variants designed for proper work and to sell to major fleet buyers, in addition to something a little more upmarket to suit the more lifestyle-oriented buyer. Nissan was in many ways at the vanguard of this for some time with the old Spanish-made D40 Navara, which offered strong levels of comfort almost from the get-go in 2005 (in particular, the ST-X 550 which came on line in 2011). It’s small surprise... And the Nissan needs to be good. Source: www.caradvice.com.au
