1992 Nissan Navara ST Dualcab review from Australia and New Zealand

Nothing major went wrong with the car at all, mainly self-induced things such as destroying the tailgate handle by opening it on top od the handbrake lever of a trailer.

The Nissan Navara is a superbly built light truck. It is a shame that the recent models are not as well built any more, because our '92 model was indestructable. We bought it at an auction in Sydney in July '94 when it had little over 40000 on the clock, and sold it in November 2001 with 240000km, and it still ran like new. We never took it to get serviced by a dealer, preferring to service it ourselves. It was very economical for such a large and unaerodynamic (we had a bullbar on ours) vehicle, retuning around 9L/100 on highways, and 13-15L/100 in town and when towing a horse float.

There are better towing cars around, but for our needs it was superb.

The current owner says it has done over 300000km by now, and it doesn't use any oil at all, and it's still as economical as always.

In my opinion, this is the best light truck money can buy, even if the interior is not up to date, and the looks are boring. The 3.0L V6 is too thirsty, and the diesels are gutless, which leaves the 2.4L petrol as the best comrpomise.