NISSAN’S CELEBRATED WARRIOR BY Premcar remanufacturing program will see the Navara PRO-4X Warrior launch in South Africa in late April 2025, as part of a collaboration with Nissan South Africa.
Conceived by Nissan Australia to deliver even more capability in the Navara, and to deliver customised vehicles that are tailor-made for Australia’s roads and off-road conditions, the Warrior program has now grown to cover three capable yet comfortable vehicles in the Navara SL Warrior, the Navara PRO-4X Warrior, and the bi-modal exhaust-equipped Patrol Warrior. To date, in excess of 12,000 Warrior models have been enhanced across Australia.
And now, through a joint collaboration between Nissan Australia, Nissan South Africa and Premcar, the program will make its South African debut, with initial deliveries to South African dealers forecast for late April 2025.
“We launched the Warrior by Premcar program in 2019 with the Navara N-TREK Warrior, a vehicle that immediately resonated with our passionate Navara owners, and set new benchmarks for a locally enhanced ute in Australia,” says Andrew Humberstone, Vice President & Managing Director of Nissan Oceania.
“We then saw the international potential which was first realised with the introduction of the Navara N-TREK Warrior in New Zealand, sharing the same refinements as the Australian model. We’re thrilled to see this Australian initiative now launch in the South African market with the Navara PRO-4X Warrior. As any Warrior owner in Australia can attest, South African drivers are in for something special.”
In keeping with the Warrior program’s ethos of delivering vehicles tailor-made for local conditions, Premcar is also expanding its operations globally, with the Victoria-based company to set up a joint venture with South African local firm AIH – under the entity of Premcar SA – with all remanufacturing enhancements conducted within Nissan South Africa’s production facility in Rosslyn.
Premcar has made a number of significant changes to the South African-market Nissan Navara PRO-4X to create this new Warrior hero version. These changes include:
- A new-for-South Africa chassis tune (including newly engineered and developed suspension springs and dampers, the latter fitted with new technology specifically tuned and optimised for local roads and driving tastes)
- Warrior-style 17-inch alloy wheels
- Maxxis RAZR all-terrain (A/T) tyres suited to local conditions
- Unique-to-South Africa front bumper bar design and assembly
- Wheel arch flares
- Warrior-branded front seats
“While the vehicles will of course be slightly different, the end result will be the same; a ute that feels perfectly suited to South African conditions, and one that broadens capability without ever sacrificing comfort,” says Premcar CEO, Bernie Quinn.
“This isn’t just important for us, but for the Australian automotive manufacturing industry across the board. We’ve known that Australia is home to some of the brightest automotive minds on the planet, and we can’t wait to show the world what we can do.”
“There are a lot of links between South Africa and Australia,” says Nissan Africa President Jordi Vila, “from sport to recreation and especially the outdoors. The Navara that has been designed for Africa and assembled in South Africa since 2021 outside Pretoria, is a wonderful platform for the introduction of the Warrior by Australia’s Premcar.”
“We showcased our Navara’s capabilities in an 8,000 km overland odyssey across eight countries, last year, linking our assembly plants in South Africa and Egypt. We called that journey Daring Africa and we have no doubt the locally developed Warrior by Premcar which was designed for the toughest terrain in Australia will quickly find a brand-new home in the hearts of South African off-road enthusiasts by taking the African Navara to another level of capability and giving them a new passport to dare.”