Nissan Daring Africa expedition sets sights on Egypt

Daring Africa 2024, Nissan’s overland adventure across eight countries with four Nissan Navara bakkies and an X-Trail, is preparing to complete the eighth and final leg of the trip, which will see the convoy join Nissan’s LCV manufacturing facility in Rosslyn, Pretoria with Nissan’s passenger vehicle assembly plant in Egypt.

The Daring Africa adventure has covered 7 000kms across seven counties so far and engaged with 3500 members of the media across the continent. All the vehicles in the convoy have completed the journey to date, with no mechanical issues, not even a flat tyre, while travelling over some of the toughest road conditions imaginable.

“It has been an amazing journey so far. We set out to celebrate our African footprint and our 60-year-old LCV legacy on the continent through this incredible vehicle which of course was designed for Africa and is built in Africa by Africans, and I have no doubt that we have proved our point,” said Jordi Vila, Nissan Africa President.

The Daring Africa journey began by heading east from Pretoria towards Nelspruit and then into Mozambique. The next stop was Zimbabwe via the Eastern Highlands and Africa’s second highest waterfall, Mutarazi and into Harare. The convoy then turned north over the Kariba Dam and into Zambia.

Traversing the Luangwa Valley, the crew headed for Lake Malawi and then into Tanzania, around the majestic Kilimanjaro and up past Kenya’s Amboseli National Park en route to the capital Nairobi.

The journey has allowed Nissan to engage with media as well as fleet owners and key customers in different markets along the way. A key part of Daring Africa has been to amplify the Navara’s attributes across existing African markets as Nissan opens up new markets for the Rosslyn made vehicle in North Africa, with the Navara on the cusp of being introduced into Egypt, Algeria and Libya.

Daring Africa has also allowed the Nissan X-Trail, which was launched in South Africa last year and in Egypt this year to prove its worth as a daring family adventure vehicle, as it fulfills the role as a vital member of the odyssey and a support vehicle for the expedition alongside the Nissan Navara.