Could this be the R53?

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Could this be the R53?

Postby Grumpah » Wed Jan 22, 2020 6:54 pm



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Postby palmerwmd » Thu Jan 23, 2020 12:38 pm

I hope one of the articles is wrong that says it will still be D platform.
Even though I must admit the current Gen Pathy, the R52 looks great..
The only knock on it is I would like it to be tougher for offroad duty..

Given that the market is still buying 4Runners which an updated R51 would have competed with greatly.. I would prefer it not be a unibody.

On the other hand in all fairness it IS possible to make a tough offroad unibody as the r50 Pathy showed

Something like the Terra ..asian market Pathinder.. (pics they used in one of the articles)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlytujHY8W0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1XvB4Qy8hI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fedirYhyYIw&t=

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Postby Grumpah » Thu Jan 23, 2020 3:33 pm

Wow! I'll bet if they replaced the R52 with the Terra in North America, their sales would skyrocket!

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Postby palmerwmd » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:18 pm

Grumpah wrote:Wow! I'll bet if they replaced the R52 with the Terra in North America, their sales would skyrocket!
Yes that Terra is one hot machine.
The engines are smaller than US.. but I would think thats an easy fix gfor a company like Nissan with a huge parts bin of modern engines of all sizes.


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