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Hot. This is how Nissan describes the new version of the Titan pickup truck that will be revealed just a few days away from now, on September 26, at the State Fair of Texas.
Designed as a mid-cycle facelift for the range, the new Titan promises to be “dramatically refreshed” compared to what is currently on the market, as one Nissan spokesperson said back in August. For now, it’s not clear what that means apart from the very limited info released by the Japanese this week.
The “hot” moniker in the car’s description is not ours, and it is not just a metaphor either. Apparently, the new Titan will literally used a so-called hot badge, meaning the Nissan logo has been painted with lava red accents.
Nissan says this new design will only be available on the off-road-ready PRO-4X model. Hopefully though a red badge will not be the only thing catching our eye.
There’s a lot of rumors going on surrounding powertrains, the most interesting of which being the discontinuation of the Cummins V8 turbo diesel on the Titan XD. Slow sales of this model are cited as the reason behind the decision.
Overall, in a market that is crazy about pickup trucks, the Titan nameplate fails to impress. In 2019, its sales figures for an entire month just barely managed to equal those of the Ford F-Series in a much shorter timeframe of about a day or so.
In 2018, for instance, the Blue Oval sold over 900,000 F-series models, while the Titan barely scored 50,000 units. And that must have been a record, because with only three months of this year left the Japanese are not even halfway to that threshold yet, according to Car Sales Base.
The new Nissan Titan is expected to make its market debut in the early months of 2020. No pricing info is available yet.
The “hot” moniker in the car’s description is not ours, and it is not just a metaphor either. Apparently, the new Titan will literally used a so-called hot badge, meaning the Nissan logo has been painted with lava red accents.
Nissan says this new design will only be available on the off-road-ready PRO-4X model. Hopefully though a red badge will not be the only thing catching our eye.
There’s a lot of rumors going on surrounding powertrains, the most interesting of which being the discontinuation of the Cummins V8 turbo diesel on the Titan XD. Slow sales of this model are cited as the reason behind the decision.
Overall, in a market that is crazy about pickup trucks, the Titan nameplate fails to impress. In 2019, its sales figures for an entire month just barely managed to equal those of the Ford F-Series in a much shorter timeframe of about a day or so.
In 2018, for instance, the Blue Oval sold over 900,000 F-series models, while the Titan barely scored 50,000 units. And that must have been a record, because with only three months of this year left the Japanese are not even halfway to that threshold yet, according to Car Sales Base.
The new Nissan Titan is expected to make its market debut in the early months of 2020. No pricing info is available yet.
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