Test Drive Nissan Titan 2003 - 2010

Titanopotam

Nissan Titan.
Full-size pickup, from the end of 2003 produced in Canton, Mississippi. Engine: gasoline 5.6 l, 305 liters. S. Corobca gear: 5-speed automatic. Wheel formula 4x2 or 4x4.
Required: XE, SE, LE.
Price in the USA: from $ 22,400.
Test car:
305 liters p., Equipment Le, the price in Russia is $ 67,000.
Amazing American country. Everything in it is not as in Europe: the territory is huge, the oceans are two, the roads are straight and endless, the skyscrapers are high, the ranch of the day will not open, the cars are huge, powerful, voracious. Special article Pickup: EDAC meters six long, on the frame, with a V-shaped gasoline eight of five or six liters. They drive both road workers, and housewives, and millionaires, and for a residential trailer or trailer with a boat of a better towing not to find. This year, Nissan Titan became the winner of the prestigious contest. Topics of gray dealers include such cars and in Russia one of them, worth $ 67 thousand, visited our test.
 
Pickup Multime happens
Near Titan just suppresses the usual car near him seems toy. What are terrible frozen headlights diagonal, like a good TV! And even a huge kangarin, an abundance of chromium, scratching lights over the windshield. Power and beauty, Schwarzenegger and Banderas! However, if you put a pickup on a free space and move away, you can evaluate modern design and smooth lines that give the harmonious and stylish view of the car of the economic destination.
It is equipped with American wretch: leather interior, five seats electric regulators (and the driver is also with memory!), Air conditioning, full electric car, regular audio and video systems, electrically adjustable pedal node and steering column, electronic compass, wound temperature indicator, Garage gate control panel. The navigation system is also provided, but this is not pleasure for Russia. And eight (!) Airbags, disc brakes on all wheels, ABS, stabilization systems and anti-pass and all this truck!
Frame titanium is released with two types of cabins. One-hour King Cab passenger capacity 2 + 3 with a close three-seater sofa. Test pickup with a more spacious CREW CAB (literally, crew cabin), which is called double. She has four doors and with a completely pudded back of the driver's chair, there are still twineth centimeters to the rear sofa. Completely, by the way, a full-fledged taking into account the more than a two-meter width of the body, here you can easily stick to break or sit down three healthy, squeezing soap. Only here the back is located closer to the vertical than I would like. And behind the wheel it turned out to be unexpectedly a lot of space eats the massive console between the seats. Although it is quite convenient, and finding your landing with such an abundance of adjustments only the question of time.
However, I am a lot of pleasure, but not complete. We must ride.
 
Drop, minus!
The sound of the motor is quiet, pleasant and slightly bass. We release the parking brake (as well as otherwise, America!) And they translate the five-speed automatic transmission selector to the Drive position. It happened! Titan smoothly rolled over the fourth floor of parking. Despite the enormous base of three and a half meters, the Congress on the steep spiral of the ramp was surprisingly easily the steering wheel can be rotated by one finger, twisting the front wheels almost across the body, and the high landing and large windows allow you to feel good to feel a lot of picapic dimensions.
On the streets of Moscow, the streets of Moscow, you feel an elephant in the dishwasher, would not add anything with nonsense. Therefore, moving gently, slowly, with self-esteem. However, if the traffic accident turned out to be on Pole positive, it is possible to draw a blind-roaring blood with a deaf roar, three hundred of the forces of the V-shaped eight easily carry forward more than two-toned titanium. Only the tract control saves from slipping unloaded rear wheels under an empty body. The fact that someone can trim or start a power struggle, forget all the internships became polite and it is helpful and it is clear: to whom to get involved with such a romance?
Peak fun Country highway. The machine works softly and completely predictable, and the shift shift is judged only by the tachometer arrow. Shootless without delay when overtaking there are no problems here are especially visible advantage of a large volume motor. Many passenger cars will envy acoustic comfort, and the standard surrounding policeman at a speed of about 40 km / h seemed just a road seam. If I forgot to reset the speed before congressing on the junction, the dynamic stabilization system will very gently encourage the motor and, shocking the wheels, gently direct the car in turn.
But the field after all, we are on the all-terrain vehicle. According to the old pasha, it is easy to keep 60 km / h, without experiencing special discomfort The suspension easily swallows the tubercles. Shake yes, but it is almost impossible to break the suspension on the empty truck. The four-wheel drive here was not needed, but the thrust control system turned out to be in demand: Without it, a powerful car fester on slippery grass.
The sand quarry also did not become an obstacle for Titan. Here, naturally, the drive is only full. The front wheels are connected hard as other serious all-terrain vehicles. At low speed in the rises, the problem with dosing of the wheel traction is arisible for hydromechanical transmissions, then stop at an increase in resistance, then break into the slip and bury in response to pressing the accelerator. And while the moment in the motor further has no place, more semi-second Newton meters, you have to rotate the separation box selector to 4L position, multiplying the transmissions to the transmission by another 2.6; Speed, respectively, for the same division. Now another thing is even on the speed of idling wheel, they continue to rotate and Nissan with the persistence of the tank storms insurmountable before lifts. However, to overestimate the possibilities of a pickup should not be with such a tremendous base for a short time on the belly on some ridge.
 
Toy adults
On the feasibility of acquiring such a car, you can argue for a long time and arguments against lead, probably more than for. For a truck insanely roads, for the sorcerer is scrupted for the city of cumbersome, and also voracious. With a philistine bell tower these are iron arguments. On the other hand, if the income allows, why not buy yourself such a big and beautiful toy just because I want?
 
SUMMARY
A luxurious adult toy whose practicality is not necessary to discuss seriously.
+ Rich equipment, spacious comfortable salon, good noise insulation, excellent dynamics, energy-intensive suspension, high traction capabilities.
- Closed driver's seat, overlooking the backseat, considerable fuel consumption, large dimensions.
 

 
Andrei Kochetov.
Photo: George Sadkov
 

A source: Journal "Behind the wheel"