Cargo floor and interior storage in Nissan Titan proves very useful

The back seats or cargo area, depending on your preference, comes with a few surprises.
First to the standard aspects, the seats come up with the ease of a handle and the mats are removable for easy cleaning. However, you don’t need to worry about calling shotgun in this car because the seating does not [...]

Nissan Titan’s Fold Flat Front Passenger Seat

One of the full-size truck market’s most reliable customers is the contractor – that guy who practically lives in his truck, carrying a mix of business and personal items (tools and toys), and often a variety of people. The contractor demographic helped make the four-door pickup a household item, and as contractors grew more [...]

Sporty Steering Wheel in the Titan

In keeping with the theme of little things making big differences, we feel that our long-term Nissan Titan deserves praise for its steering wheel. Why does a truck need a cool steering wheel, you ask? Well, grip the Titan’s wheel and find out for yourself. It’s thick all-around, and has those nifty [...]

The Nissan Titan’s Side View Mirrors Increase Visibility

Given the superlative terms we heaped on our long-term Nissan Titan’s liftgate mechanism, we hesitated to use another “best-on-the-market” line for fear of lessening the effect. But the Titan is really just that good, and is a rolling example of all those proverbs about little things making a big difference.
The side view mirrors on [...]

Buick Lucerne CXL: A Reason to Cheer for the U.S.A!

Back when Exxon gasoline was sold as Esso, they had a marketing slogan that sticks with me to this day – “Put a Tiger in Your Tank!” Perhaps General Motors was also thinking of this slogan when they signed superstar golfer Tiger Woods to be the spokesperson for GM’s Buick brand.
Tiger marketing Buicks? I know, [...]

Tight Turning Titan is Tops

When you’re talking trucks, the figures and stats that normally would get your heart racing-slalom times, cornering forces, etc.–suddenly become less important, compared to numbers that car-guys generally consider mundane. Turning Radius, for example. A low-slung, Italianate exotic with nine-inch-wide wheels isn’t going to have the tightest turning radius, but that’s not going to keep [...]

2006 Chevrolet Impala SS

When one thinks back to the “muscle car” era, it’s hard not to include the Super Sport (SS) models from Chevrolet in those thoughts. Since 1961, Camaros, Chevelles, Novas, El Caminos and other models, including the Impala, have worn this coveted badge.

Back in the 60s, having a SS model meant you had the tools to [...]

2006 Nissan Xterra, Down and Dirty

Cars, like everything to a woman, can be seen as an accessory, and as soon as I stepped up into the 2006 Nissan Xterra, I wanted it to become part of my life as much as I wanted the latest line from COACH. From the sport interior to the key not coming out if [...]

Nissan’s tailgate Dampening Assist is a winner – drop your tailgate.

After spending lots of quality time with our 2006 Nissan Titan long-term tester, we’re prepared to say that from the C-pillars back, it’s currently the most innovative full-size truck on the market this side of a Chevy Avalanche.
In addition to the unique Utili-track system in the bed, which makes tying down motorcycles a snap, the [...]

The Titan’s Sirius satellite antenna is nicely hidden

One other thing we feel compelled to mention about our Titan test truck is the common-sense approach Nissan has taken on the issue of satellite radio. Most manufacturers have elected to plop strangely-shaped, body-colored antennae on the roofs of their cars. However, the Titan’s Sirius antenna is located inside the car, tucked in [...]

Utili-Track System provides a ton of utility.

One of the features of our Nissan Titan that we have found to be unexpectedly useful is the Utili-track bed system. With a name like Utili-track, you might think that this is simply one of a long list of features attached to the window sticker of a truck by some marketing type.
Wrong. The [...]

Welcome the 2006 Nissan Titan Crew Cab to the fleet.

Nissan is a gutsy brand, overall–willing to take chances that other automakers would have rejected as too risky within the first committee meeting. Look at the 350Z, the Spec-V sedans, or even the alternatively-styled Quest minivan. We credit this audacious attitude with starting the V6 horsepower wars in the midsize sedan class–which we’re all reaping [...]