Report: Nissan to be patient with the Titan pickup

Posted: Oct 21, 2011
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Nissan ins’t in a hurry top offer a new full-sized Titan pickup. The company’s new chairman of the Americas says that the Japanese automaker is prepared to stick it out for years.

“We’re going to need two or three cycles to be as professional as the people who have been doing it for 50 or 60 years,” says Colin Dodge, who became chairman of Nissan Americas in June. “We still think we can do well in that segment,” he said. “The first go in the segment wasn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination.”

The next Nissan Titan is expected to debut sometime in 2013, two years behind the originally scheduled date.

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Dodge said that the Titan has been hurt by offering only one powertrain option – a 5.7 liter V8 making 317-hp – of course, that doesn’t help with returning strong fuel-economy figures.

So far this year, Nissan has sold about 15,348 units of the Titan. Sales peaked in 2005 at 86,945.

- By: Omar Rana

Source: Automotive News


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  • Cad4life

    stop now, youre in the bus 2 make money, not hope 4 the next 2/3 gen that people will buy, the japanese full truck will never replace the big 3, trust me on that, u r just waste time/money the same goes 4 toyota, u see honda never did it, why because its an american thing, basically no one else buys these things

  • Matt

    The mpg’s on these full size trucks regardless of whom makes them really HURTS at the pump.
    The threshold of “pain at the pump” wasn’t too bad when gas was below $3.00. But it’s at the point where ya need to take a couple of pain killers every time you fill ‘er up :-{}