Digital Nissan Frontier (Navara) Hybrid Kicks Toyota Tacoma i-Drive Max The place It Hurts

Here is a hypothetical query: Ought to the Japanese automaker Nissan use the recent Kicks styling as the right excuse to remarry the Navara and Frontier mid-size pickup vehicles to decrease prices and permit the introduction of an environment friendly hybrid model?

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Photograph: Digimods DESIGN / YouTube

One of many main introductions on the 2024 New York Worldwide Auto Present set to be held from March 29 to April 7, alongside fashions just like the Polestar 4, MINI Cooper S, Porsche Macan EV, Hyundai Tucson and Santa Cruz, Kia K4, or the trio of Genesis ideas was additionally the second-generation Nissan Kicks subcompact crossover SUV.

Developed on the Alliance’s CMF-B structure, the 2025 Nissan Kicks is greater than earlier than, extra highly effective due to a bigger 139-hp 2.0-liter engine, tech-infused in and out, plus for the primary time outdoors of Japan out there with non-compulsory all-wheel drive. It is a extra compelling alternative than ever, however what actually elevates the Mexico-produced CUV is Nissan’s audacity to revolutionize the styling with an all-new design language.

Naturally, everybody and their mom thinks the Japanese firm, which additionally lately introduced it would introduce 30 new automobiles by 2027, together with 16 hybrids and EVs and 7 all-new fashions for the North American markets, will trickle up and down (plus sideways) throughout the complete lineup. We already know the 2025 Nissan Armada will debut this yr, and an all-new Murano has been confirmed as nicely, however some people are extra involved in what occurs with the favored mid-size pickup vehicles – Navara and Frontier.

The 2 nameplates was twins however had been separated when the D41 third-generation Nissan Frontier was launched to America for the 2022 mannequin yr. The corporate lately teased the fourth-generation Navara, and the rumor mill believes it would merely turn out to be a rebadged Mitsubishi Triton (L200). Nonetheless, perhaps the imaginative realm of digital automotive content material creators thinks in any other case – or is it simply us dreaming of Nissan remarrying the Navara and Frontier into one compelling mid-size pickup truck, getting the perfect of each worlds?

Anyway, Dimas Ramadhan, the digital automotive artist behind the Digimods DESIGN channel on YouTube, has taken up the duty of CGI-revealing a recent Nissan pickup truck within the mid-size class. The pixel grasp particularly names the Navara because the mannequin in query, however because it absolutely makes use of the recent Kicks styling, a mannequin produced in North America, it may additionally work like a attraction for a Frontier redesign.

Plus, the writer envisioned this as a hybrid mid-size pickup truck, so a Frontier Hybrid would most likely kick(s) the 326-hp 2024 Toyota Tacoma i-Drive Max hybrid exactly the place the solar does not shine. So, would you wish to see a reunification of the Navara and Frontier destinies with Kicks design, or not?