Australia’s appetite for V8 power has continued to keep right-hand drive production of the new Y63 Nissan Patrol a while away.

The timing of local deliveries of the new-generation Y63 Nissan Patrol remains up in the air.

Nissan Oceania’s managing director, Andrew Humberstone, told Drive that “nothing [is] finalised at this stage”, when pressed on when Australians can expect local deliveries of the next-gen Patrol to begin.

Humberstone revealed to Drive that Nissan Australia was holding a strong order bank for the outgoing Y62 Nissan Patrol, the last generation with a V8, potentially delaying the arrival of the next-gen Patrol, which has been mooted for a late-2026 or early-2027 arrival in Australia.

“We have an order bank of current Patrols, quite a strong one,” Humberstone told Drive.

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