After the 2025 Nissan Frontier refresh, it’s time for an outdoorsy build to make its appearance.
With the Titan now unfortunately out of the picture, Nissan’s only foray into the American truck market is the long-running, midsize Frontier. The third-generation truck just saw a revamp for this new model year, and now that it’s arriving at dealers, the automaker is showing off a vision of what you can do with your truck (specifically, your Pro-4X): Build a ‘Trailgater’. Get it?
Clever name aside, this one-off truck is will make its official debut at this year’s SEMA event in Las Vegas, which is scheduled to kick off on November 5. Essentially, Nissan aims to combine customer’s love for sports, and by extension tailgating, as well as the high demand for outdoorsy lifestyle vehicles, hence the name. “Project Trailgater was created with sports fans hoping to catch the game outside of their living room in mind,” the company said in its statement Monday. “Its debut during the heart of the college and professional football season reflects the sports’ continued dominance among TV viewers.”
However much stock you put into that statement, this particular 2025 Nissan Frontier Pro-4X Trailgater has plenty of upgrades that hit on both entertainment and off-roading. For the latter, Nissan raided its own Nismo parts catalog, fitting a suspension lift kit, forged upper control arms and high-performance Bilstein front coilovers and rear shocks with remote reservoirs. The Trailgater build also brings in a performance cat-back exhaust, a Nismo roof rack with a bank of 6-inch off-road lights, 4-inch lights on the A-pillars and another overlanding rack on the back with rear-facing four-inch fog lights.
The Trailgater sits on 17-inch Axis beadlock-capable wheels and a set of Yokohama Geolander M/T tires.
In the 6-foot bed, the 2025 Nissan Frontier Pro-4X Trailgater gets a custom Dakota lithium battery pack with two 320-amp-hour batteries, a 1500-watt inverter, a 40-amp onboard battery charger and 180-watt folding solar panel. You also get two 43-inch TVs (in their own protective cases) and a soundbar mounted to the rack, as well as a Dometic cooler, a fold-out kitchen station and sink and a built-in propane grille that unfolds from one of the CargoGlide slide-outs — that’s where the whole tailgating part comes in.
Overall, the 2025 Nissan Frontier Pro-4X Trailgater focuses on those Nismo upgrades and gear for when you’re out in the woods, including a Medical Points Abroad first aid kit and even a Starlink setup so you can stream the game to those TVs. Inside, the experience is everything you’d expect in the updated Pro-4X, including the larger 12.3-inch infotainment screen and a host of orange-themed accents throughout the cabin.
Since this is just a one-off project, don’t expect to straight-up order the Trailgater at your local Nissan dealer. That said, you could feasibly upfit your own truck with these parts to recreate it, with Nissan bigging up the Pro-4X as the perfect platform to create your ultimate combination of off-grid entertainment with the capbility you need to actually make it into the bush.
We’ll have more details on the Trailgater from SEMA once we make it out to Las Vegas, so stay tuned for more coming soon!
