Last drinks will soon be called on the final Nissan Patrol with V8 power after 15 years in showrooms, as its twin-turbo V6 successor looms.
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Nissan will not turn off the taps on the V8-powered Patrol for Australia until the first new-generation ‘Y63’ is ready to roll late next year, amid high demand for the 15-year-old four-wheel-drive.
It means some of the last Y62-series V8 Patrols to drive off the production line in Japan will be destined for Australia and the other right-hand-drive markets set to launch the new twin-turbo V6-powered Patrol after us.
Nissan chief product specialist for full-size SUVs, Antonio Lopez, told Drive at the Tokyo motor show the transition from old to new model will be seamless.
Australia will be the first right-hand-drive market in the world to access the new Patrol when orders open for local showrooms in November 2026, about two years after it launched in left-hand drive in the Middle East, and 18 months after North America.
“It is going to happen exactly the same [for Australia] as we did in all of the markets. As soon the Y63 comes in, then the other comes out,” said Lopez.
“… We're not going to have the two cars in production [for the same market] simultaneously.
“The plan is that we will stop [Y62] as soon as this car [Y63] is starting production.”
The Y62-series Patrol was revealed in 2010, and launched in Australia in 2012, yet demand remains high for what is now one of the least expensive tickets into a new V8 car in Australia.
Nissan Australia has reported 5152 Patrols as sold over the first nine months of 2025, down 12.6 per cent on the same period the prior year, but it is up on the 4499 reported from January to September 2022.
Last year’s tally of 8293 deliveries set a record for the Patrol in Australia, though it still trails the popularity of its diesel Toyota LandCruiser rival.
The V8 off-roader was updated earlier this year with a new dashboard – its second in two years – adding a larger, factory-fitted 12.3-inch touchscreen, updated instrument cluster, and new dashboard centre stack.
The boss of Nissan Australia, Andrew Humberstone, has made clear his desire to source as many V8-powered Patrols as possible before production winds down, particularly as customers rush into showrooms to acquire one of the final V8s.
Prices are also likely to rise for the new Patrol, given it is a more luxurious and high-tech offering than its predecessor, with a new 3.5-litre twin-turbo V6 petrol engine to succeed the 5.6-litre V8.
“We have an order bank of current Patrols, quite a strong one,” Humberstone told Drive in September.
“I can't get enough production at the moment and I'm pushing for more production.
“If I'm not getting the production of the old, then I need to anticipate production of the new. So we're in ongoing discussions with that. Nothing finalised at this stage.”
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Alex Misoyannis has been writing about cars since 2017, when he started his own website, Redline. He contributed for Drive in 2018, before joining CarAdvice in 2019, becoming a regular contributing journalist within the news team in 2020. Cars have played a central role throughout Alex’s life, from flicking through car magazines at a young age, to growing up around performance vehicles in a car-loving family. Highly Commended - Young Writer of the Year 2024 (Under 30) Rising Star Journalist, 2024 Winner Scoop of The Year - 2024 Winner
