Last we heard about Nissan's trials and tribulations in North America, the Japanese automaker was actively considering the potential death of the full-size Titan and Titan XD nameplate after the 2024 model year.
That means they would only remain with the third generation, newly standalone D41 Nissan Frontier – the first dedicated version for North America, to fight the tidal wave of mid-size pickup truck novelties. Those include the all-new Ford Ranger (complete with Ranger Raptor version), the latest Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon siblings, as well as the great N400 Toyota Tacoma.
So, what about the full-size pickup truck sector – they just abandon it for the sake of the Toyota Tundra, Ram trucks, Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra, plus the Ford F-Series? Well, if that happens in the real world, it doesn't necessarily need to occur across the imaginative realm of digital car content creators. Instead, maybe the Navara nameplate could also arrive in North America as a member of the Nismo pack with full-size Pro-4X underpinnings.
That's entirely wishful thinking, for sure, as the Nissan Navara is the Frontier-equivalent mid-size pickup truck for global markets. Besides, if the dedicated Titan and Titan XD failed to succeed, what could make anyone believe that a Navara would prevail? Plus, we haven't heard of high-riding Nismo models for North America – although that's an occurrence in other regions, such as the Middle East.
Anyway, Dimas Ramadhan, the virtual automotive artist behind the Digimods DESIGN channel on YouTube, has taken up the CGI task of revealing a larger-than-life Nissan Navara Nismo Pro-4X full-size pickup truck. And it's not hard to discover the sources of inspiration – the pixel master clearly mixed the Nissan Titan's body with styling elements from the Patrol and Pathfinder off-road SUVs and then added some crimson Nismo DNA to the digital cocktail.
Although it's pretty far-fetched to imagine that Nissan would ditch the Titan and Titan XD nameplate in favor of a Navara Nismo model, this doesn't look half-bad as a full-size pickup truck ready to bash dunes and crawl rocks at any speed. And it could easily find a home among the sandy deserts of the Middle East and Latin America. Hey, it could even be suitable for North America if anyone dared to mix with the sector's big guns – Ram's 1500 TRX and Ford's F-150 Raptor R.
But, of course, there would be trouble for the Japanese automaker when trying to find an appropriate powertrain to fight the supercharged V8s of the potential American rivals. However, Nissan doesn't have such capabilities, so we suggest that Navara Nismo be equipped with the 2024 GT-R Nismo's 3.8-liter twin-turbo VR38DETT engine, which is good for 600 horsepower in that application.
With the hypothetical Nissan Navara Nismo full-size pickup truck being a heavy-duty application with ample space in the engine bay, it's not that hard to imagine the Japanese engineers could push the stunning mill to at least 700 horsepower to match the US competitors, right?
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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