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re: Why no love for the Titan?

Posted on 9/6/18 at 11:43 pm to
Posted by Clames
Member since Oct 2010
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Posted on 9/6/18 at 11:43 pm to
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Driveline is way overbuilt for a half ton.


Too bad the actual towing and payload capacities are marginal even against regular 1/2-ton trucks. It gets blown out of the water by 3/4-ton trucks. Nissan makes great engines, they don't know shite about the American truck market and it shows.
Posted by SWCBonfire
South Texas
Member since Aug 2011
1350 posts
Posted on 9/7/18 at 5:23 am to
This is their main problem. They could have made what amounted to a 3/4 ton truck from the 90's (a decent niche considering how large trucks have become), but they put a semi-floating rear axle from their vans in the truck because that's "heavy duty" for them. The rear axle weight rating isn't even high enough to pull a gooseneck trailer with any load on it.

It's a half ton truck with the driveability, fuel economy, and maintenance of a 3/4 ton. If I were Cummins I'd be pissed, and would be telling them to make an HD XD with a real free floating axle to get the towing numbers up to promote their new engine application.
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