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TITAN JR. Nissan draws on full-size truck for midsize Frontier.(News)(Brief Article)
Byline: BOB GRITZINGER
Nissan, one of the last holdouts to offer a pickup in the compact segment it created in 1959, sheds all pretense of offering a little truck with its first all-new Frontier in 16 years. Not only does the 2005 Frontier move up to the midsize range to compete with the likes of Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon, Toyota Tacoma and Dodge Dakota, Nissan's truck does it with a lot of big-truck stuff.
Like some of its competitors, Nissan draws on the styling of its brute full-size pickup, Titan, for the angular lines of the midsize entry. But Nissan goes a step further by using a downsized version of the Titan chassis to underpin the smaller model, with the same fully boxed steel frame rails as Titan, along with a number of Titan suspension parts.
Whether King Cab (extended cab with jump seats and rear-hinged rear access doors) or Crew Cab (four full front-hinged doors and rear bench seat), Frontier's wheelbase grows by nearly 10 inches to 125.9 inches, while overall length increases to 205.5 inches (2.6 inches ...
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