Nissan Navara NP300: car review

Powerful, off-message and bright orange" Nissan's new pick-up is the Donald Trump of the motoring world

Price: 22,040
Top speed: 114mph
Towing capacity: 3.5 tonnes
MPG: 44.9

No car wants to be a truck these days, but lots of trucks want to be cars. In motoring terms, "car-like" is a compliment. Take a grunting, hairy-chested brute of a truck and call it "car-like" and you'll almost see it blush and flutter its lashes. But why? For those of us who are regularly charmed by slick and smooth-talking cars, the chance to spend time with a proper unreconstructed oaf is refreshing. Heavy doors, high bonnets, loud engines, a vibrating gear stick, zero real visibility" Trucks keep it real.

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