re: Why no love for the Titan?

Assembled in Canton, MS.



How might the build quality be impacted if the workers are mainly from Canton, MS?

I’ll hangup and listen.

Sorry, this is ugly AF

Well it can’t be any worse than a dodge.

Because it’s fricking junk

No love comes from the ugliest truck on the market and the clans of brand buying baws.


They are extremely reliable and powerful little bastards. Don't believe the magazines and your neighbor. Ask a local mechanic or parts salesman. They know what breaks.

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This truck actually feels like a truck,

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I know what you mean. The Tundra also feels like a truck. It’s not too smooth and car like. My wife hates driving my truck bc it feels like a truck, which is good for me.

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I love the new Titans. I'm considering he Titan Platinum. Their seats are amazing

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I looked at the Platinum pretty hard for a bit. Ended up with the XD SL diesel. The only options I don't have are air conditioned seats, the all around view camera, and the different color seats that come in the platinums. Couldn't justify spending an extra $10k for those few options.

I ended up going with the diesel because I drive a ton for work and pull a boat in my spare time. If it wasn't for emmision standards, that Cummins would be way more bad arse. I think the tune and delete will give you over 125 HP and ft lbs of torque while also getting rid of the need for DEF. I have a 100,000 mile warranty I don't want to void or I would have done it already.

I love my Titan XD. I have always been a Chevy guy and finally branched out. One of the only knocks I have is the size of the fuel tank. Other than that, truck has been great and pulls the shite out of my boat.

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.

I had an 89 K2500 Chevy with the old LO5 HD 350 in it. I used to pull a 32' gooseneck cattle trailer with it (not very fast, however). Titan has much more power, but much less actual towing ability due to the rear axle design and rating.

The titan would be very suited to pull a 24' flatbed gooseneck or similar - but you can't put much weight on the rear axle, because it isn't designed for it. The factory gooseneck option is kind of a joke because you don't have the ability to haul loads with heavy tongue weights.

It is the truck equivalent of a linebacker playing footall in high heels. Looks the part, but dainty where the rubber meets the road.

Nissan should fix this ASAP. I know they think their market data shows people will never pull a heavy trailer anyway, but they should swallow their pride and offer a 3rd party rear axle on the diesel.