2016 Nissan Titan XD Gasoline V-8 First Drive: More than a Half, Less than Three-Quarters

-That Nissan’s Titan pickup has always been a bit of an outlier in the fiercely competitive truck segment is not lost on its maker. So when it came time to introduce its new almost-heavy-duty 2016 Titan😄 truck at the 2015 Detroit auto show, it didn’t feel compelled to follow the norms set by the three main players in the HD truck segment. Aimed at the so-called white space between traditional half-ton trucks and three-quarter-ton trucks, the😄 is built on a new, specific chassis that shares next to zero parts with the forthcoming half-ton Titan. It was initially available with the potentially game-changing 5.0-liter Cummins turbo-diesel V-8 as the sole powertrain (we referred to it as a five-eighth-ton truck in our recent instrumented test of the diesel😄). Now, the first 2016 Titan😄 crew-cab trucks equipped with Nissan’s heavily revised 5.6-liter gasoline V-8 are just beginning to slip onto dealership lots. READ MORE ››

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from Car and Driver Blog http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2016-nissan-titan-xd-gas-v-8-first-drive-review