A bakkie with all the attitude, swank that South Africans love

SOUTH Africans have a special affinity for their bakkies and when they get some extra swank, we like them even more.

- WILLEM VAN DE PUTTE

Toyota has their Hilux GR Sport, Ford has the Wildtrak X, Isuzu has an Arctic Truck conversion on their D-Max, Mitsubishi has the Triton Xtreme and now Nissan has the Navara PRO-4X Warrior.

It was jointly developed with Premcar, an Australian engineering consultancy and second-tier manufacturing company in a joint venture with the Pretoria-based AIH group.

The arrangement allows them to operate from the Nissan factory in Rosslyn, Pretoria by taking it off the production line and then adding the Warrior goodies to it.

Exterior and interior

The exterior gets a more aggressive look with a blacked-out grille, door handles, a roof rack, side steps, 17-inch alloys under flares and red accents while inside the seats receive Warrior-banded black seats with red stitching.

The modified front bumper improves the approach angle by two degrees to 35 degrees with the departure angle still 27 degrees.

Under the skin

Most of the work though has been done to the suspension set-up.