2025 Nissan Armada

The verdict: The redesigned 2025 Nissan Armada recaptures a lot of the space, power and utility that made the original so popular, making it fully competitive with the rest of the full-size SUV class.

Versus the competition: Less expensive than many of its competitors, the new Armada feels more nimble, usable and capable than many of them, too.

When Toyota reintroduced the Land Cruiser to the U.S. as a 2024 model, it gave us a slimmed-down, hybrid-powered, significantly less luxurious version that was based on the Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, leaving many of its fans lamenting the loss of their favored big, luxurious and powerful go-anywhere SUV. Well, fret not, Cruiserphiles, because it would appear that Nissan has picked up what Toyota put down with the new 2025 Armada SUV.

It ticks off every one of the characteristics of the old Land Cruiser: It’s big like the old Land Cruiser was and is able to seat seven or eight people in three rows of seats. It’s powerful, with a new twin-turbo V-6 engine that puts the previous V-8-powered Armada to shame. It’s luxurious, with a truly lovely leather-lined interior on upper trim levels that’s incredibly comfortable, quiet and loaded with usable tech. And it can go anywhere now thanks to the introduction of a new Pro-4X trim level that brings a taste of the international Nissan Patrol’s off-road prowess to the U.S. market for the first time.