Nissan Titan pick-up still a chance for Australia

[Franco Cozzo]

The Nissan Titan pick-up has been given new hope of coming to Australia, after being ruled in and out for local introduction over the past two years.

Nissan Australia boss Steve Lester says the company has not given up on getting the Nissan Titan into local showrooms – and has been buoyed by the success of the Ram 1500, which until recently was only available with petrol V8.

“We’ve had a lot of productive meetings,” said Mr Lester. “It’s been around the globe (the US factory and Japan head office) as far as the proposal goes. There is no shortage of work that we’re constantly doing to try to convince the powers that be that we’ve got an opportunity.”

Nissan Australia is currently exploring two options: it still has not given up on a factory-built right-hand drive model but is also studying a local conversion by Premcar, the company that previously engineered and built Ford Performance Vehicles and which will soon release a top-end version of the Nissan Navara.

https://www.caradvice.com.au/798667/...tan-australia/

Interesting news, especially given if the factory isn't interested in making a off the floor RHD variation they're going to look to outsource to 2nd stage manufacturers.