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The latest round of EuroNCAP crash-test scores make alarming reading for both Nissan and Isuzu - and anyone who has bought one of their pickup trucks.
EuroNCAP has tested pickup trucks for the first time, in response to their increasing popularity as family vehicles, and the performance of both the Nissan Navara and Isuzu Rodeo has raised serious concerns about their safety.
The Isuzu Rodeo scored just two stars for the protection of adult occupants - with the second star "struck through" ...Read the full article

I bought a navara a year ago. The dealer said it was basically a pathfinder, except for rear suspension, and as safe as houses. I do 30k a year so by the law of averages I'll have a bump or two, so the safety features matter.

If this vehicle really is this  unsafe, and a bending chassis in a crash doesn't get much less safe, is it of merchantable quality. The issue of whether customers have redress against nissan under the sale of goods act for selling such a poor vehicle has not been discussed in the media yet. I for one want my money back because I've been sold a dangerous dog of a pick up with fundamental design flaws. Can't see a bit of new airbag software solving the problem nissan.  Anyone interested in a class action??!!

I certainly won't be using the car until I can get it sold> imagine what has happened to the residual today!

psj73:

I bought a navara a year ago. The dealer said it was basically a pathfinder, except for rear suspension, and as safe as houses.

 

I also assumed that the Pathfinder and Navaro were bascially one and the same (which is not to excuse the dealer). But the Pathfinder has four stars. So what does Nissan take out of the Navaro that makes it such an NCAP dud? Anyone any ideas?

One-star for a pickup thought these things were solid!