Three months, Three weeks. That's the amount of time we’ve been live with the SB Motorsport Navara-R Project. 27th May 2020, we launched this build to the public and its been a crazy few months!
In just 110 days since the release, SB Motorsport engineers - Corbin and Ian have been working non-stop on creating the worlds first Nissan Navara-R.
Work began all those weeks back by initially stripping the standard Navara truck, removing the bed and the body from the structure, and building fully custom front / rear suspension turrets to fit the original GTR subframes, with fully custom ST coilovers. Strengthening the frame chassis and making sure the original GTR VR38 engine will fit under the hood.
We are excited to be working with one of the UK's best design companies, Sterling Automotive for the Navara-R truck bodywork, with their first render seen in the images above.
Sterling works with many high-end vehicles, so it only seemed right to get them involved with the #NavaraR.
"Sterling Automotive Design was born from a vision to uplift vehicles to a luxury standard with bespoke detailing available for the discerning customer."
"Sterling has in-house designers and technology that allows us to 3D scan, design and print prototypes in an unrivalled time scale in the UK."
The largest brands in the industry who shared the initial build info include Monster Energy, Top Gear, Car Throttle, EVO Magazine and Fast Car Magazine.
Four social media Livestreams with CTRL inside our very own SB Motorsport workshop in Southend, Essex. With a huge total of collective views over those three months, four livestreams and multiple social shares, we have definitely grown a strong following for our latest project.
The Navara-R has been born.
The overall statistics from the Mission CTRL Livestreams:
Facebook / Youtube
Views - 220k
Reach - 1.2M
Shares - 520
In the latest livestream we saw the team fit the brand new
ST Suspension setup, front and rear coilovers to the truck, completely live. With no issues, no complications, the #NavaraR was safely lifted onto all four wheels for the first time.
Were you as excited as us?!
Return to Driftenberg, our biggest video project from 2019.
This video has grown a massive audience already, and since the release of the Navara-R, the views have been insane. Over 3,100,000!
Future dates for the #NavaraR Livestream:
14th October
11th November
Don’t miss out!
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SB Motorsport founder, Stephen “Baggsy” Biagioni says
“This project has always been on the cards for SB Motorsport, ever since our initial GT-R project. With racing currently on hold this was the break we needed to re-visit the idea and bring it to fruition. We have the best partners and they share our vision to create another great vehicle that will challenge the normalities of what’s possible, this is going to be an exciting mix of performance meets practicality.” - He continues “The Navara-R as we have already dubbed it, will challenge our in-house know-how. With this build, the aim is to keep the Navara road-legal, all the mod-cons of the vehicle, rather than creating a race-car chassis with minimal extras."
"I'm confident in our team here at SB Motorsport, and honestly excited to see the development and work alongside our partners, who happen to be the world’s leading experts in their respected fields.”
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