Australians are in for a long wait for Nissan’s new Patrol, but the company wants to make the most of the current model in the meantime. While customer deliveries of the new Y63-series Patrol start in the Middle East in November, buyers will be waiting until 2027 in Australia. Orders open late in 2026.
“Two years for right-hand drive to come out after left-hand drive, it’s not unusual,” Nissan Oceania managing director Andrew Humberstone. “We will be the first right-hand drive market to get in the vehicle. And we have an opportunity with the existing V8 engine, given there’s going to be fewer V8s in the market.
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“The new product has a V6 engine, [which is] much more environmentally friendly with much lower emissions but it’s still a beast of a vehicle. “But it’s much more premium and there will be a price walk, so how do you manage that gap? “We can really meet customer demand and customer needs in the interim by being smart in terms of our bridging strategy to new product.” While Mr Humberstone says Nissan wants to capitalise on the rarity of the current Y62-series Patrol’s V8 engine and its more affordable pricing, he did say “we’ve been pushing to get the new Patrol as quickly as we could”.
In the meantime, it will offer the 2010-vintage Y62, which recently received – at long last – Android Auto and Apple C.