Photo: KDesign AG / Behance / Theottle / Instagram
Thanks to their continued involvement in the Alliance, the competing automakers Renault, Nissan, and Mitsubishi can always share components and designs as they please.
There are numerous examples of their collaboration, but on this particular occasion, the imaginative realm of digital car content creators has settled on a singularity – the Renault Alaskan mid-size pickup truck. In case the model is too obscure, no worries; it's just another instance of the third-generation D23 Nissan Navara platform – exactly like the Mercedes-Benz X-Class was between 2016 and 2020 or the Dongfeng Rich 6 from 2018.
The Nissan Navara has been around since 1997 as the nameplate for Nissan trucks, but its heritage can be traced back to 1985 when the D21 generation became the successor to the Datsun 720 models. It carried a lot of names back in the day - Nissan Datsun Truck in Japan, Navara in Australia and New Zealand, Nissan Hardbody in America, and many more (Power Eagle, Big M, Camiones, Hustler, Pathfinder Eagle, etc.).
Luckily, beginning with the first official generation – D22, Nissan settled on Navara for international markets and Frontier in North America. Today, though, these models are separate entities after the Japanese automaker finally decided to make the Frontier a standalone model that's way better suited to the peculiarities of the North American market.
Well, at least one pixel master - Kleber Silva, a Brazil-based virtual artist known as KDesign AG on social media, believes that the Nissan Frontier is too cool not to be shared outside of the region and wants the second-generation Renault Alaskan to follow its example and present itself as a rebadged sibling. After all, if Mitsubishi can pull this off with various Renault models, why the latter can't do the same with the Frontier instead of the Nissan Navara this time?
Well, it's pretty clear that it wouldn't take much for Renault to adopt the styling of the Nissan Frontier for its hypothetical second generation of the Alaskan model. However, we are not so sure that the Japanese automaker would approve yet another know-how transfer. As such, a different CGI expert devised a second solution to this potential predicament.
More precisely, the virtual artist known as Theottle on social media has conveniently made sure that no one will be upset because his take on the next Alaskan iteration is a Dacia Duster-based pickup truck, stretched and reworked to accommodate the adventurous design on top of the framework provided by the latest version of the Mitsubishi Triton (L200) pickup truck. So, which one is more to your liking – a simple rebadge of the Nissan Frontier or the attractive, enlarged Duster skinned as a Renault mid-size pickup truck?
The Nissan Navara has been around since 1997 as the nameplate for Nissan trucks, but its heritage can be traced back to 1985 when the D21 generation became the successor to the Datsun 720 models. It carried a lot of names back in the day - Nissan Datsun Truck in Japan, Navara in Australia and New Zealand, Nissan Hardbody in America, and many more (Power Eagle, Big M, Camiones, Hustler, Pathfinder Eagle, etc.).
Luckily, beginning with the first official generation – D22, Nissan settled on Navara for international markets and Frontier in North America. Today, though, these models are separate entities after the Japanese automaker finally decided to make the Frontier a standalone model that's way better suited to the peculiarities of the North American market.
Well, at least one pixel master - Kleber Silva, a Brazil-based virtual artist known as KDesign AG on social media, believes that the Nissan Frontier is too cool not to be shared outside of the region and wants the second-generation Renault Alaskan to follow its example and present itself as a rebadged sibling. After all, if Mitsubishi can pull this off with various Renault models, why the latter can't do the same with the Frontier instead of the Nissan Navara this time?
Well, it's pretty clear that it wouldn't take much for Renault to adopt the styling of the Nissan Frontier for its hypothetical second generation of the Alaskan model. However, we are not so sure that the Japanese automaker would approve yet another know-how transfer. As such, a different CGI expert devised a second solution to this potential predicament.
More precisely, the virtual artist known as Theottle on social media has conveniently made sure that no one will be upset because his take on the next Alaskan iteration is a Dacia Duster-based pickup truck, stretched and reworked to accommodate the adventurous design on top of the framework provided by the latest version of the Mitsubishi Triton (L200) pickup truck. So, which one is more to your liking – a simple rebadge of the Nissan Frontier or the attractive, enlarged Duster skinned as a Renault mid-size pickup truck?
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