Start with what the Nissan Patrol is: a 3-door wagon/van / 2-door pickup truck / pickup / fire truck with Petrol engine, built from 1951, at the height of the post-war boom. What it meant takes a little longer.
How it came about
The Nissan Patrol (Japanese: 日産・パトロール, Hepburn: Nissan Patorōru) is a series of off-road vehicles and full-size SUVs manufactured by Nissan in Japan since 1951 and sold throughout the world. It is Nissan's longest running series of models. The Patrol has been available as either a short-wheelbase (SWB) three-door or a long-wheelbase (LWB) five-door chassis since 1951. The LWB version has been offered in pickup truck and cab chassis variants.
Between 1988 and 1994, Ford Australia marketed the Patrol as the Ford Maverick. In some European countries, such as Spain, the Patrol was marketed by Ebro as the Ebro Patrol. In 1980 in Japan, it was rebadged and alternately sold at Nissan Prince Store locations as the Nissan Safari. The Patrol has traditionally competed with the Toyota Land Cruiser in most world markets and is available in Australia, Central and South America, South Africa, parts of Southeast Asia, and Western Europe, as well as Iran and the Middle East. For the 2011 model year, it was made available in North America as the upscale Infiniti QX56 (later renamed as Infiniti QX80), the first time that a Patrol-based vehicle had been sold in North America since 1969, and for the 2017 model year, it would be offered in that market as the Nissan Armada.
The hardware
The engine is Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1500 kg. Drive goes through a 4-speed manual. The wheelbase is 2200 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Nissan line-up the Nissan Patrol has a clear place: the factory was Hiratsuka. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Mini Mini, the Dodge Challenger, the Volvo P1800. Its Nissan stablemates include the Nissan N6 and the Nissan N7.
Owning one today
There is no federal ownership record for the Nissan Patrol — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.