Nissan by now had had developed a habit of occasionally skipping the next obvious designation in their model code system, and the Patrol series was no different when they went striaght from the 4W61 to the new 4W65 in October 1958.
The new 4W65 Patrol was another evolution of the original 1951 4W60 Patrol, but this one had some significant changes. In an attempt to make the vehicle look more contempory, and less agricultural, several changes were made to the styling at the front. The most noticable of these was to the front guards, which are now much more rounded, rather than the flat planks on the previous models. The front featured the obligatory new grille design, which was similar to the 4W61 grille, but now all the horizontal bars are chrome plated, on the 4W61 only two bars were plated.
