2022 Nissan Navara Pro-4X Warrior review (inc. 0-100): Should the Ranger Raptor be scared?

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Aussies LOVE their tough trucks and Nissan has spent time refining its first attempt at the Australian-exclusive Navara Warrior and have come up with this. It's the 2022 Nissan Navara Pro-4X Warrior.   The changes are new for 2022 and Paul Maric investigates whether the updated Nissan Navara Warrior is worth checking out if you need an off-road focussed truck.  Hardness tester results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/121Auf6HGvaBqRToYcuAz94alin7Sw55SpOPECBDlnKE  More Nissan content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/nissan More Nissan Navara content: https://www.carexpert.com.au/nissan/navara  Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior 00:53 Interior 06:15 Infotainment 08:03 Safety Tech 09:07 Practicality 10:09 On Road 13:24 0-100 km/h 14:39 Off Road 19:14 Verdict 24:36  We review every new car on the market, bust car myths, cover the latest car tech and answer your burning questions.  Whether you need new car advice, purchase validation or simply love learning more about new cars and technology, we are your car experts.  Subscribe to Car Expert: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7DvMhvy3H7ntEgn9n3xQcQ?sub_confirmation=1  You'll find us dropping new video content three times a week. If you'd like to ask a question about one of our videos, simply leave us a comment. If you'd like to give us any feedback on our content, feel free to email us, or alternatively, hit us up on social media.  Finally, we want this channel to grow with your support and feedback. If there's anything you don't like or would like to see us change, we'd love to hear from you!  Follow us on social media to see what we're up to and to ask any questions!  CarExpert: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CarExpertAus Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/CarExpertAus Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carexpert.com.au  Paul Maric: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PaulMaric Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/PaulMaric Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/PaulMaric  #nissan #navara #review #warrior

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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. So, Nissan has been working on their latest iteration of the Ford Ranger

00:04 Raptor competitor. They call it the Navara Warrior. It's exclusive to Australia and

00:09 engineered here by an Australian company. Today we're going to see if it's any good.

00:14 I remember driving the last one and I actually really enjoyed it. So, this has had a few visual

00:18 tweaks in line with the latest Navara update. So, this is priced at a little under $70,000.

00:24 It competes with things, well, really like the Ford Ranger Raptor and perhaps the Toyota Rugged

00:29 X Hilux. There really aren't too many competitors in this segment that go this extreme in terms of

00:34 the off-road equipment. Today we're going to do a detailed review of this car. So, if you do want to

00:38 skip ahead to other parts of the review, you can use the time codes on the screen or if you're on

00:42 YouTube, you can scroll down and use the chapters below. And if you haven't done so already,

00:45 subscribe to our channel, press the bell icon because that's going to tell you every single

00:49 time we drive beasts like this. Let's talk exterior design. So, you've got three colors

00:54 to pick from. All but black is just under $700. What do you reckon about the design? I reckon it

01:00 looks pretty tough. So, this is based on the Pro 4X. So, you get the big black section up the front

01:06 here, the red highlights on that black Nissan logo. I think it's a pretty imposing design,

01:11 but some of the changes here that we're talking about with the Warrior include this steel, I guess,

01:17 bumper bar down the front here and the changes between this and the last one. So, this remains

01:21 a hoopless bar and you can actually see there's gaps between here so that it can flex independent

01:26 of the body. So, you're not going to have those two meeting at all. You've got rubber grommets

01:30 in between that to keep it all separated at all times and you'll get that if you're on corrugated

01:34 roads at high speeds. So, a really good setup there and it means you're not going to do any

01:38 damage to the car. This has changed in terms of the way they paint it to prevent it from

01:43 chipping. They've also included here provisions for a winch. Previously, you weren't able to do

01:48 that. They've also got an LED bar integrated into that bumper as well, so that's all sort of

01:52 inclusive. If you go beneath the skin, that's all red and it says Navara on that. This is

01:58 three millimetres thick. This provides you protection for the underbody, so if you do

02:02 collect anything when you are off-roading, it's not going to, you know, rip a hole in the sump or

02:07 anything like that. So, this is a really good addition to have and it means that you really

02:11 will be protected from all of the elements when you're driving off-road. So, in addition to that,

02:15 this sits on a 30mm wider track than the Pro 4X that it's based on. Ground clearance has also

02:20 been increased by 40mm, so you've got 260mm of ground clearance under there now. So, it is all

02:26 changes that are going to make it better off-road. In terms of your headlights, you have a full LED

02:31 headlight cluster there. I love this design. You've got the four sort of globes in there and

02:35 it really sort of looks cool. Decent headlight as well, so at night time you're getting great

02:39 projection here plus from that LED light bar. So, really good setup there. Let's have a look

02:44 at the wheels. So, around here you've got a set of 17-inch alloy wheels along with these Cooper

02:49 All-Terrain tyres. Black wheel design in the centre there. It's like a matte black finish.

02:55 Decent tyre as well. If you're going to be doing some serious off-roading, you need a proper

02:58 all-terrain tyre and I think this will get the job done nicely. Up the top here, you have some

03:03 bespoke wheel arch protection for the Warrior. You can see here, what was it? It was the BT50

03:09 Thunder that we were driving. It didn't really connect nicely down there or at the back here

03:13 and they've just got a decent setup here so it doesn't look too strange or aftermarket.

03:17 Now, talking about the changes to the suspension, they've got revised springs and dampers in here.

03:21 Now, what that means is that when you get closer to full extension, especially at speed,

03:26 it handles that full extension a whole lot better instead of just bottoming out and

03:30 giving you a shunt through the cabin. So, if you are going to be doing any sort of

03:34 jump-related things, this is going to handle that a whole lot better. In terms of the ride

03:37 firmness, the engineering company has upped the high-speed rebound rate by 50%

03:42 and the compression rate by 100% compared to the standard Pro-4X. And there's also changes to the

03:47 rear rebound rate as well so it feels a little less jittery when it is on that corrugated stuff

03:51 at higher speeds. So, I'll be interested to see if that actually works and whether we can feel

03:55 that behind the wheel when we go for a drive. Righto, down the side here, you've got the

03:59 standard side steps. I would have loved to see something here similar to the Ranger Raptor,

04:03 where they had like a proper sort of steel or metal setup down the side there, whereas this is

04:07 just plastic and it feels like it could be a bit of a weak spot in the car if you lean it on any

04:13 rocks or anything like that. I think it's going to bend a little bit. Down here, you've got a

04:17 camera built into that wing mirror along with an LED indicator, piano black around that wing mirror.

04:22 You've also got piano black up the top here on the roof rails, privacy glass. You get this pretty

04:27 cool looking sports bar, I guess you'd call it. This is with the Pro-4X so it gives it just a

04:33 little bit of character on the road. Pro-4X sticker there, but then you get Warrior underneath it as

04:38 well, so everyone knows that you're driving the Warrior. More of those flared wheel arches and

04:41 then whip around to the back. Now, customers were saying that they wanted more payload and also

04:46 greater GVM. So, GVM is up by 100 kilos and payload is now at just under one ton. Now,

04:52 that's important because something like a Ranger Raptor has nowhere near as much payload as this,

04:56 and also can't tow as much as this. This has a three and a half ton brake to towing capacity,

05:01 so they actually have put a bit of work into making this a usable work ute plus a fun weekend

05:06 ute. Black Nissan logo there with red lettering, and then this is kind of new to the Navara. Well,

05:12 this update of the Navara, they've got like that little lip there. Unfortunately, the top isn't

05:16 protected, so if you do have anything that sits inside that tray, it's going to lean on this and

05:21 potentially scratch it over time. So, it is a shame that doesn't have any protection on it.

05:26 But, in terms of the inside of your tray, you've got a torsion bar there to make this easier to

05:32 open and close. You've got these cool rails on the side as well, so you can undo those and move

05:37 them around as required. It's a good system and it means that you get a bit of versatility there in

05:42 terms of where everything sits inside the tray. Now, speaking of the tray, in terms of the

05:47 dimensions, it comes in at just under 1500 millimetres long and you'll get a little over

05:51 1100 millimetres between the wheel arches. So, decent setup there and it comes standard with

05:56 this bed liner as well. So, let me know what you reckon about the design of this in the comments

06:01 section below. Do you think this latest Warrior looks better than the first generation? I'm hoping

06:07 it is better in the sense of how it drives. The first one was good, but the changes they've made

06:10 to the suspension here should mean that it is a little bit better. So, let me know in the comments

06:14 section below what you think. So, we are inside the Warrior. Let's start off with the key. So,

06:19 you've got standard sort of Nissan key, logo up the top, lock, unlock and then it's blank on the

06:25 back. This is a proximity sensing key, so you leave that in your pocket. Once you're inside,

06:29 you've got the push button start. Now, let's talk about the design here. It does look pretty old

06:34 school. They've stuck with commercial with all of these hard plastics along the top there. Probably

06:39 not such a bad thing if you're pretty rough and tumble with your ute, but if you have a look at

06:43 stuff like the new Ford Ranger, it's starting to feel a little bit dated here in terms of the

06:47 design. That includes all of this piano black that in a standard car gets pretty dirty pretty

06:53 quickly. Here, I think at a trade vehicle, it's going to get dirty very quickly. In terms of your

06:57 Warrior specific changes to the interior, there isn't really a great deal here. So, the Pro 4X

07:01 basically steps it up a notch over the standard Navara in terms of visual appearance. So,

07:06 you've got that black logo with the red lettering. You get Pro 4X written on the seats there, but you

07:11 get Warrior up the top here when you do select the Warrior package and that includes all this

07:16 stuff. You've got the red stitching, white stitching through the centre there in that kind of

07:20 ribbed design. It is a little disappointing here with the Navara that they deleted things like the

07:24 storage up the top there and also the cup holders under the air vents. For some reason, that

07:29 disappeared with this latest Navara update. But look, outside of that, your touch points. So,

07:33 on the centre here, that's really nice and soft and on the door as well, that's soft enough.

07:38 How soft is it? Well, we've tested the main surfaces in this cabin with our durometer.

07:42 If you want to see how this car compares to other cars we've tested before, have a look at the

07:46 link in the description. Now, build quality, what's it like? So, we'll do our little shape test.

07:50 It feels not too bad, a little bit of flex there in the centre, but for the most part,

07:54 this feels nice and solid. Finally, our door test.

07:57 Yeah, it sounds okay, not too bad. Moving on to infotainment. So,

08:05 thankfully when the Navara got upgraded, it got an upgraded infotainment system and that means you

08:10 now have an 8-inch display and in addition to that, you have inbuilt satellite navigation. Well,

08:16 it's not the fastest thing in the world, but it is there if you don't want to pay your smartphone

08:21 for mirroring, which also then comes with maps. You get AM, FM, DAB plus digital radio and that's

08:28 all plumbed through a six-speaker sound system. Sound system is okay, not amazing, but you do get

08:33 smartphone mirroring in the form of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Look at that, that looks nice

08:39 and quick. Gets through those menus very quickly and full screen integration there as well for

08:44 Apple CarPlay. And this is what Android Auto looks like. So again, full screen and really nice and

08:50 snappy there as well. I do find it interesting how some integrations of Apple CarPlay and Android

08:55 Auto are fast and some aren't, whereas this one's actually pretty good, which is nice.

09:00 Head of the driver is a 7-inch display. This is where you'll get your trip computer information,

09:04 some of your four-wheel drive controls and safety information as well. Now, what about

09:08 your safety technology? So you have autonomous emergency braking, you have an auto-dimming rear

09:13 vision mirror, you have a lane departure warning and a lane-keeping assistant, but the assistant

09:19 is a brake system. So basically when you come up to the edge of a line, it will pulse the brake,

09:23 and that's because this still uses a hydraulic steering rack. You need to have EPAS, which is

09:28 the electrically assisted steering rack, to be able to guide the car in like a lot of other brands

09:32 do when it comes to a lane-keeping assistant. You do have a blind spot monitor built into that

09:37 wing mirror. Unfortunately, there's no radar cruise control, which is pretty disappointing

09:40 given this is the very top specification model. On the parking front, unfortunately, you don't get

09:45 front parking sensors, you just get rear parking sensors, but you do get a 360 camera, and I'll

09:50 show you what that looks like. So the quality is pretty, it's okay, it's not amazing, but it's not

09:56 terrible as well. So that's looking out the back and that's your 360 view. You'd also have an

10:01 off-road camera as well, which we'll run through when we do a bit of light off-roading, but you

10:05 can see down the front there as well, you get a bit of vision, and then also moving grid lines as

10:08 well. Moving on to practicality, and we'll start with the USB connectivity. So get rid of this for

10:13 a second. You've got one USB-A port down here with an auxiliary port in the center console. You've

10:19 got another USB-A, a USB-C, and also a 12-volt outlet. In terms of phone storage, so you can

10:26 slot it down the front there, but it's not quite big enough to fit big phones, which is a little

10:31 bit frustrating, but you can pop your phone there in one of the cup holders if you want to. Then in

10:36 terms of your coffee cup, thankfully this all fits okay and it's easy to grab without spilling. There

10:41 are no teeth there, which is worth keeping in mind. And our bottle, same story, fits in there

10:46 fine, but because it doesn't have any tea, that kind of just moves around a fair bit. You can then

10:49 pop this inside the door if you need to. Let's try our big bottle, we'll see if that fits inside the

10:55 door. Doesn't fit in the center there. It does fit inside the door, which is good news. Further

11:01 storage, center console, it's kind of small. It's wide but very narrow and it's not all that deep,

11:08 which is a little bit annoying, but you do get storage down the side here where you can pop your

11:13 little bits and pieces. Down here you've got a glove box. Again, no room in there once you've

11:17 got the manual. And finally, a sunglasses holder up the top. And finally, comfort, you have

11:22 dual zone automatic climate control. You don't have any heated seats, even though you can get

11:27 heated seats in the model beneath this. And you've got lots of blanks here as well. For some reason,

11:31 when you step up to the Pro 4X, you just start missing out some of the features that are

11:35 available in the STX, which is a little bit disappointing. Now, let's talk about the seats.

11:40 So, full manual adjustment, that's one of the other things that's missing from the spec below.

11:46 The other problem with the seats is they're not very comfortable. So, I spent a bit of time in

11:49 this car and one of my colleagues spent a whole lot more time in this car and, yeah, they're just

11:53 not a very comfortable place to be seated. They need a bit more support down the bottom. Yeah,

11:58 it's just after a while you feel a bit fatigued while you're sitting in the seat. Steering wheel,

12:03 though, good news, you don't have to honk the horn every single time you do a U-turn. So,

12:07 the redesigned steering wheel is actually much better, but it still only offers tilt. There's

12:12 no reach adjustment on the wheel. And on our reach test, everything is easy to reach from

12:18 the driver's seat. So, before I hop in the back, let's have a little sticky-beaky storage. So,

12:22 this doesn't come down, but you can pull this up. Once you do pull this up, you can latch that into

12:28 position so it doesn't go anywhere, but you do have two hidey holes under here. One is for the jack

12:33 and the other is for your bits and pieces. Not a huge amount of room, but it's there nevertheless.

12:38 Pop this back down. You can hop in, grab that grab handle, and then once you're inside,

12:44 you've got an okay amount of knee room, but not amazing, and toe room is okay, but not amazing.

12:50 Again, headroom is pretty reasonable. In terms of your creature comforts, you have a center armrest

12:56 here with two cup holders. The bottle goes into there without any dramas, but no teeth, so it sort

13:01 of moves around a little bit. You can pop this inside the door if you need to as well without

13:06 any dramas. You've got air vents down here, which is good news, plus a USB-A outlet as well. No

13:11 matte pockets, but you do have ISOFIX points with top tether on the outboard seats. One of my

13:16 favourite features of the Navara though is the sliding window. I love that it has that. Gives

13:20 you a little bit of airflow in the cabin without needing to open these other windows.

13:23 So we're on the road in the Navara Pro 4X Warrior. So, powering this is the same engine as

13:32 the rest of the Navara range, which is a 2.3-litre twin-turbocharged diesel. Makes 140 kilowatts of

13:38 power and 450 newton-metres of torque. Now, I know what you're thinking. So they've added all

13:43 this steel stuff in and made it heavier, but haven't increased the power. Does that mean it

13:48 feels slower behind the wheel? Well, it's a bit like the Ford Ranger Raptor. It does feel slower

13:52 behind the wheel. So when you do get stuck into it, it's pretty leisurely, especially when you

13:59 consider that the rest of the competitors, or some of the competitors in this segment, are now at 500

14:03 newton-metres. This is already at a disadvantage and is then heavier, which means it is slower

14:08 again. So, look, it's not the end of the world. You can still keep up with traffic nice and easily,

14:12 but it is just something to keep in mind if you go buying one of these. Just remember,

14:16 it is going to feel a little slower behind the wheel. That's all mated to a seven-speed

14:20 automatic transmission. The seven-speed in this is actually not too bad. Like, when you sort of

14:25 get stuck into that throttle, it picks up and goes nice and quickly. And with the twin-turbocharged

14:30 setup, you've always got torque when you need it. There's no real big torque holes in the rev band.

14:34 So, Nissan doesn't have an official 0-100km/h time, but we've put it up against our stopwatch,

14:39 and this is how it went.

14:40 Nissan claims a combined fuel economy of 8.1 litres per 100km. Let's have a look at what

14:57 we're sitting on. We're on 10, so kind of near enough to where it needs to be. This car's been

15:04 doing a fair bit of city driving, so pretty impressed with that figure, if I'm honest.

15:07 So, let's talk about the drive modes. So, using the drive mode selector down here,

15:12 you can go between standard, sport, tow, and off-road. So, standard is just all pretty

15:18 straightforward. If you slot it up to sport, you can feel the gearbox is immediately more responsive

15:24 and ready to jump back through gears, and tow mode will take advantage of gears to make sure you're

15:29 not going to ruin your engine while you're doing 100km/h with a giant load on the back.

15:34 Let's have a quick chat about the ride. So, this is part of the work that the engineering company

15:39 did here in Australia to change the way this rides compared to a standard Navara. And of course,

15:44 the standard Navara, above and beyond the rest of the utes in this segment, uses a coil-sprung rear

15:49 end as opposed to leaf springs, and generally it's pretty good, but it can get a little jittery if

15:54 you hit a set of corrugations. This suspension setup, though, has really balanced it out nicely,

15:59 so it's soft enough but still capable of handling loads and corrugations without making the car

16:06 buck about. What we found in some of the American trucks, the bigger trucks, the second you start

16:10 trying to get tricky with suspension, the car just floats all over the road. So, what they've done

16:15 here with the springs and the dampers really has given it just a good level feel, and it means you

16:20 can drop a tyre off the edge here with confidence, knowing that if you do hit any potholes or bumps,

16:25 it's not going to run away from you. So, yeah, it is a nice setup. Doesn't feel anywhere near

16:29 as good as something like a Ranger Raptor, but given the limited window of opportunity they have

16:35 to change the tuning on these, I think it's actually not a bad job. All of that drive is

16:39 sent through the rear wheels, so it is two-wheel drive only in high range. You then have four high

16:44 and four low, which I'll go through when we go do a bit of off-roading. But, yeah, I think some

16:49 utes are now moving into that space of full-time four-wheel drive. We've seen with the new Ford

16:53 Ranger that some of those variants will be full-time four-wheel drive. It is fine in this

16:57 sense, but I do find in the wet, for example, it is a little bit sketchy because you don't have as

17:03 much traction available with these all-terrains. Same story with Ranger Raptor, in the wet it's

17:07 just not that great. So, it would be nice if they actually had a four high system that actually

17:12 works on sealed surfaces in these utes. Let's talk about the steering. So, you know, I mentioned

17:16 earlier on that because this doesn't have an e-pass system, it doesn't get the lane departure,

17:20 or lane keeping assistance stuff rather, like a lot of other utes in this segment, where it'll

17:24 steer you back into the lane. It is pretty heavy, especially at low speeds, and, you know, that's

17:30 one of the downsides of hydraulic steering. It is hard to give it that tuning, the speed variable

17:34 tuning, and, you know, it kind of shows here. It has enough steering feel, but it is just probably

17:40 a little on the heavier side at low speeds for my liking. All right, let's pop this into sport mode.

17:44 We've got our corner coming up here. Let's see what it feels like as we dial it in.

17:50 Yeah, look, it does feel like it has a lot more body roll than a standard Navara, but

17:58 on our little bump here, it actually settles really nicely as the speed picks up. So,

18:03 yeah, look, it's not as sharp a handler as a standard Navara, but they've done a good job

18:07 making it actually handle on the all-terrain tyres that it's sitting on. Let's talk about

18:11 tyre noise. So, one of the downsides of these all-terrain tyres is they are a little bit noisy

18:16 on the freeway. They're not the end of the world, so it's not like those big chunky mud terrains

18:20 that really just smash you with noise as you're driving along, but you do notice these, especially

18:24 on a smooth surface. You can hear it inside the cabin. It doesn't have that noise-cancelling tech

18:29 that you find in the Ranger Raptor, but, look, for the most part, it's fine. It's not the end

18:33 of the world. It's just something that you will notice in the back of your ear every now and then.

18:37 What about your visibility? So, clearly visible down the front there, so I can see the corners

18:42 of the car. I did notice something yesterday, though. This little lip on the bonnet here,

18:46 for some reason, at some hours of the day, it literally just blinds you. You get the sun

18:51 refracting off that right into your eyes, and I just don't understand how they didn't catch that

18:56 during the engineering process. So, it's a little bit disappointing that you need to, like, try and

19:00 cover your eyes so you can actually see where you're driving. Visibility out the side is good,

19:04 though. The wing mirrors are nice and big. You've got a blind spot monitor built into those,

19:07 and visibility at the rear isn't too bad either.

19:10 Right-o, time to do a little bit of light off-roading. Let's see how the Warrior does

19:19 off the beaten track. So, I'll run you through the high-level four-wheel-drive features. So,

19:24 it's a standard two-wheel drive, which is what you use for driving out on the road,

19:27 but you do have four-wheel-drive high range for unsealed surfaces, and four-wheel-drive low range.

19:32 There's a rear diff lock that only works when the vehicle is in low range. In addition to that,

19:37 you have an off-road drive mode as well that we will select when we start doing a bit of

19:42 off-roading here. In terms of the actual specs, your approach angle was 32 degrees, but it's been

19:47 increased to 36 degrees thanks to that front end. The approach angle is the angle of the face you

19:52 can approach before you hit the front of the car. The departure angle isn't quite as good. It's just

19:56 under 20 degrees, so that's the same angle but in reverse, but your ground clearance has increased

20:00 to 260mm, so you should be able to clear most obstacles, and there's also a 600mm wading depth.

20:07 So, what we'll do, we'll put this into four-wheel-drive high range. You can see it's

20:11 engaged when it comes up there on the screen. Then we'll also put the drive mode into off-road as

20:16 well, so that's going to tailor all of your stability controls to off-road settings, so you

20:20 do have a little bit more movement there. Let's see how we go up here. So, given the changes to

20:27 the suspension, I'm hoping it is smoother up here. I do remember in the Pro 4X it was smooth,

20:32 but not quite amazing. This is still a tiny bit rough, but the edges of the bumps are actually

20:36 not too bad, and these all-terrain tyres just offer stacks of traction, so it's walking up here

20:43 pretty easily. You can actually see the big difference. Today we had the Sahara ZX here,

20:47 and it kind of struggled to get up there with its all-terrain tyres, but they look very much

20:51 like road tyres. So, you can see there's a huge difference here. The first thing you want to be

20:55 doing when you get one of these is changing the tyres to proper all-terrains. Okay, you've also

21:00 got a downhill assist control, a hill descent control. Let's see how it goes down here as we

21:05 navigate this. I forgot to mention as well, you've got an off-road camera, so the off-road mode is

21:11 actually pretty cool, because you can see exactly what those tyres are doing. I can set it up to

21:15 then navigate itself through the potholes that I want. So, I'm going to let go of the brake here

21:19 and see how our hill descent control works. It's not too bad, probably a touch too quick.

21:24 It's kind of running away from us there, but for the most part that actually feels

21:27 pretty good. There's no way to adjust the speed of that bike, it looks like it's just set.

21:32 Okay, next up is our offset mogul and our little

21:42 seesaw here. So, we'll chuck the car up on the side.

21:45 We roll through this. I'm going to stop it just here in the centre. We'll see how strong the

21:52 chassis is. This is going to flex the car right now. We're getting to the point about

21:57 there where it's fully flexed and it's moving around a little bit.

22:01 Yeah, no problems there. Able to open and close the door. All good. I think the olde VT60 was the

22:09 last car we tested here where the door caught on the latch when it closed, which kind of tells

22:14 you there's a fair bit of flex going on there with the body. All right, we're getting up to

22:18 our offset mogul here. What this is going to do is give us full wheel extension at the rear there.

22:23 We'll be able to see how it copes. There we go. So, we have a tyre off the ground.

22:28 I want to see how it copes here with no traction. So, I don't have the rear diff locked,

22:32 it's just in four high. I left traction control on. We'll see if it can get us out of here. So,

22:36 my foot's off the brake, I'm leaning into the throttle. There we go, I can see that wheel

22:41 locking. That's actually really impressive. So, all it's doing is just grabbing and pinching at

22:48 that rear wheel to give the car a little surge of torque onto the wheels that actually have

22:52 traction with the road. So, pretty good setup there. Didn't have to really do anything too

22:56 much to fiddle with that. I do have something slightly more challenging though. Let's go

23:00 give that a crack. Now, we've got our steepish hill here. So, it's a concrete hill, but it's

23:06 got some moguls as you climb it. So, this is really going to put the four-wheel-drive system

23:12 under a lot of stress because what it's going to tell it to do is all of a sudden send torque from

23:15 one wheel to another as it starts losing traction and it wants to be able to keep that momentum up

23:20 the hill. Otherwise, we'll start rolling back and who knows what'll happen. So, what I'm going to

23:24 do is put this into low range. You can see that's engaged there. You have to put it into neutral to

23:29 do that. It automatically brings up your off-road camera. I'm also going to lock the rear diff

23:33 lock and let's do that. Line up the hill and we'll see how it goes. Now, when this is all set up in

23:38 this mode, you can see ABS is switched off, traction control's off, and so is the forward

23:43 collision warning. Let's see how it goes. A little bit of knocking there.

23:50 Whoa! As we lift the tyre in the air, that's pretty impressive. It got up there. So,

24:01 if we didn't have the rear diff locked, what we'd find there is that it would start climbing,

24:05 we'd lose one of the tyres off the ground, all of a sudden that would get all of the torque,

24:09 and it would start getting into a position where it's not going anywhere. The driver would then

24:13 probably put more throttle in. You'd end up then getting into a situation where it might surge it

24:17 sideways and you end up in all sorts of trouble. So, that's why a rear diff lock is such a handy

24:22 thing to have and it's easy to work here. You stick it in low range, rear diff lock, and you

24:26 can climb what looks easy but is actually quite challenging.

24:29 So, the Navara Warrior. Look, it's not quite a Ranger Raptor in terms of its ability,

24:42 and it is let down by the engine, just feeling a little underdone. That's before you even fit

24:46 all the heavy stuff to it, but have a look at it. I reckon it looks tough as nails, and look,

24:51 it will go pretty much anywhere you need it to go. Those tyres are fantastic. It's got plenty

24:55 of wheel articulation, and look, if you're going to do more serious stuff, you might fit a front

25:00 locker to it or something like that, but I just think in its standard trim, it's going to do

25:04 everything you need it to do. Plus, on top of that, above and beyond the Ranger Raptor, it has

25:08 a decent payload and also a decent towing capacity as well. So, if you've got a chip, which you're

25:13 not allowed to do, but you should, I think this would pretty much solve all of the issues. So,

25:17 let me know in the comments section below, what do you reckon about this? I think at this price

25:21 point, for what you get, it's pretty good value for money compared to a Ranger Raptor, but I'm

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