New Nissan Frontier Honors America with Patriotic Badge, but It's Limited to 2500 Pro-4X Trucks

• The 2026 Nissan Frontier will be available with a free "Stars and Stripes" tailgate badge.
• Along with celebrating the United States of America turning 250, it also marks the 1 millionth Frontier built at Nissan's factory in Canton, Mississippi.
• The patriotic badge will only be available on the Pro-4X model, which starts at $43,615, and Nissan says it will only sell 2500 of these special-edition trucks.

Nissan has been building compact pickup trucks in the United States since 1983, just seven years after this country turned 200 years old. Now, with America about to celebrate its 250th birthday, the Japanese automaker looks to join the festivities by offering a new "Stars and Stripes" motif that's featured on the Frontier's tailgate.

The patriotic design incorporates elements of the American flag into the debossed "Frontier" lettering on the truck's rear end. The Stars and Stripes badge trades the usual red, white, and blue for a monochromatic appearance. While Nissan isn't charging anything for the special treatment, it will only be available on the top-of-the-line Pro-4X trim level that starts at $43,615. The trucks will be built throughout July, but production is capped at 2500 copies.

The Nissan Frontier 250th Anniversary Edition is obviously an ode to the U.S. and a market that has bought millions of trucks over the past four-plus decades. Coincidentally, 2026 also marks another American-specific milestone for Nissan, which this year celebrated building 1 million Frontiers at its factory in Canton, Mississippi. The automaker says it has sold over 2 million copies of the U.S.-built mid-size truck since 1998.

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