Nissan Navara Top Two Doubel Cabs PDF Manual

The Nissan Navara must rate as one of the top two double cabs on the South African market. I like the squared off, macho body styling – it has an appealing ruggedness that befits a leisure lifestyle double cab pick up and it’s nice to drive. Just one little point keeps it from my top spot!
Remember those big, red Nissan Hardbody bakkies built in South Africa for off-road racing in Dakar? Well, the Navara has similar styling but is bigger overall in that is longer, wider and higher than the Hardbody.

The Navara also goes a step further in that it is designed to be more of a sports utility vehicle than a conventional double cab pimped to car-like standards. Built in Spain, the Navara heralds in a new standard of quality for Nissan products, that is if the Navara, Pathfinder and X-trail are anything to go by.The Navara, in its current rear wheel drive only platform, is powered by a turbo-charged 2.5-litre direct injection common rail diesel engine developing 106 kW of power and 356 Nm of torque. It is available in both automatic and six-speed manual transmission. For petrol heads there is a 4-litre 198 kW petrol engined model that develops 386 Nm of torque. And compliments to Nissan, they state in their brochure that the Navara is capable of a maximum towing capacity of 3 000 kg for the six-speed manual, probably one of the highest tow capacities in the bakkie market, although by law you cannot exceed the tare mass of 1 872 kg on the test vehicle featured here.

An interesting point – according to our figures this 2.5-litre diesel puts out more kilowatts and torque than the Steve’s Auto Clinic modified
Toyota KZTE 3-litre diesel. And as a comparison, in the time taken for our standard hill climb test there are only 0.5 seconds difference between the wo towing the same 1 380 kg Jurgens Palma. Not many vehicles can manage the Cape’s Ou Kaapseweg hill climb in fourth gear during a timed climb. Perhaps it’s a result of the gearing ratio availability presented by a six speed gearbox, but the climb is comfortable without excessive over-revving or labouring of the engine, and we timed out at one minute forty three seconds over the two kilometre climb with the Navara/Palma combination.

Turbo-diesel powered vehicles impress me more and more for towing, not only for their economy, but they re proving pretty quick on the hills as these two vehicles show.Acceleration from zero to 100 km/h was 25.31 seconds and we recorded a top speed of 130 km/h. If anything, this engine starts to lose performance at higher speeds, but on the plus side zero to 60 km/h was only eight seconds!So engine performance for towing a caravan of this weight is comfortable, it’s neither underpowered or overpowered and being diesel you can expect a fuel consumption in the vicinity of 13-litres per hundred kilometres, depending on your driving style.Braking performance was not bad either, that’s 3.84 seconds from 100 km/h to zero which is bang on our average figure as found on the towing data pages of this magazine.

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Filed Under (Engine Manual, Nissan) by m4d35 on 21-11-2009
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