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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-obligatory 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 just lately introduced it’s going to introduce 30 new autos 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 whole lineup. We already know the 2025 Nissan Armada will debut this 12 months, and an all-new Murano has been confirmed as nicely, however some people are extra serious about 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 12 months. The corporate just lately teased the fourth-generation Navara, and the rumor mill believes it’s going to merely grow to be a rebadged Mitsubishi Triton (L200). Nevertheless, 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 most effective 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 contemporary 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 contemporary Kicks styling, a mannequin produced in North America, it may additionally work like a allure for a Frontier redesign.
Plus, the writer envisioned this as a hybrid mid-size pickup truck, so a Frontier Hybrid would in all probability kick(s) the 326-hp 2024 Toyota Tacoma i-Power Max hybrid exactly the place the solar would not shine. So, would you wish to see a reunification of the Navara and Frontier destinies with Kicks design, or not?