Some components in the highly-anticipated next-generation Nissan Patrol will be manufactured locally, the car maker has confirmed.
Parts of the new Y63 Nissan Patrol will be made at the car maker’s casting plant in Melbourne, it has been revealed.
Every new Patrol, regardless of which market it is sold in, will get a final drive differential housing that is made at Nissan’s Australian factory in Dandenong South, Victoria.
The factory, which is now in its 43rd year of operation, will produce parts for the Y63 for countries including the US, Canada, Egypt, Cambodia, Africa, and the Middle East.
Each year, the 200 staff working at Nissan’s casting plant produce 1.2 million examples of 25 different vehicle components for export.
As well as the Y63, the factory makes parts for the second-generation Nissan Leaf electric hatch and 16,000 genuine accessory tow bars for the Australian and New Zealand markets.
“I think [Australian Made certification] is something that a lot of Australian customers recognise,” Andrew Humberstone, Managing Director of Nissan Oceania, told media at the launch of the updated MY25 Y62 Patrol in Australia last week.
“There's not a lot of manufacturing in this country, in the automotive space. I think this is a really important reminder about how important Patrol is to Australia, and that Australia is helping shape the history of Nissan.”
The next-generation Y63 Nissan Patrol, which was unveiled in Abu Dhabi in September 2024, will be available to order in late-2026, Nissan has confirmed, with a local arrival date expected sometime between then and early 2027.
The new Patrol has already launched in the Middle East and will arrive in US dealerships this December, but Australians will have to wait for when right-hand drive production commences for our market.
In the US, pricing for the Patrol, known there as the Armada, starts from $US58,530 ($AU89,500) for the base rear-wheel-drive model and goes up to $US75,750 ($AU116,000) and $US82,000 ($AU125,000) for the new Pro-4X and Platinum Reserve grades, respectively – matching the cost of the previous Y62 model, as previously reported by Drive.
The Y63 on sale now in the Middle East and the US is powered by a 3.5-litre twin-turbo V6 derived from the GT-R, producing 317kW/700Nm, and is matched with a new nine-speed auto.
It replaces the 5.6-litre naturally-aspirated V8 found in the Y62 mated to a seven-speed auto, which makes 298kW/560Nm.
Ahead of the Y63’s local arrival at the back end of 2026, there has been a boom in popularity of the Y62, with the V8 setting sales records in 2024 and still posting strong numbers into 2025.
As reported earlier by Drive, in 2024, there were 8293 Patrols sold in Australia, beating its own success in 2023 and posting the highest result for the nameplate since 2004 when 9132 GU Patrols were sold.
So far in 2025, 2394 examples have been sold, 541 of which were in April, dominating the 'upper large SUV below $120,000' segment with the Toyota LandCruiser wagon trailing behind with 1926 sales ahead of the updated 300’s imminent arrival.
Humberstone told media that Nissan is trying to maximise production of the Y62 as much as possible during the long wait for the Y63.
“We've been trying to optimise the end of production of Y62 and ensure we get enough production of right-hand drive Y63 for the launch,” he said.
“There's a significant waiting list in the Middle East, so that's taking up a lot of production. I'm trying to get as much production as I can of Y62 Nissan Patrol, but obviously that production is being taken up by Y63 now.
“I think we're going to be in a really good position where we're going to have enough Y62s, but probably slightly more demand than supply, which means that great for the dealers because prices will be good and buyers as they’ll end up with great residual values with the exit of V8s.”
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