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QUICK DRIVE: TJM NAVARA ST-X
BUILDING A BETTER
D23
Before I embark on this brief tale, I want to make it clear that
this article has not in any way been sponsored by TJM. Not with
cash, product, or even a sausage in bread and unlike us, you can
take that to the bank.
Timing is a funny thing. I was having a yarn to Rick Long,
an old mate of mine, just before a recent trip I made to WA and
mentioned that I was reviewing the updated D23 Navara. Rick
let it slip that he had a flash Nav in his TJM Kewdale office that I
needed to drive to confirm my thoughts on the suspension.
Now many of you know that the coil-sprung back end of the
Navara should have been one of those revelatory moments when
the Japanese 4WD ute industry accepted that leaf springs were
from the Dark Ages of horse and cart and that the future lies
with coils. But Nissan didn’t get the carrying capacity right and
in doing so blighted their opportunity to enlighten the world that
By David Wilson