After more than a dozen years on sale, the Nissan Titan has continually struggled to gain a foothold in America’s huge and highly profitable full-size truck segment. Despite that, Nissan isn’t giving up on its big truck and as the second-generation model heads into its second year, it’s gaining a new variant. For the first time ever, the 2017 Titan will be available in a single cab variant target at the commercial and fleet sector.
The original Titan was offered in extended and four-door crew cab body styles and the second-gen launched late in 2015 as a crew-cab only. Over the past 15 years, the higher capacity styles have become more popular among customers that buy trucks for personal use, but for those that use their trucks for work, the extra seats are frequently unnecessary.
In place of the broad center console found in the current crew-cab, the single cab gets more basic three-across seating although there is still plenty of storage for items a contractor or plumber might need. The center section seat cushion flips to provide access to a storage bin below while the seat back can also be folded forward for an armrest, cup-holders and more storage.
The single-cab gets the same 5.6-liter gasoline or 5.0-liter diesel V8 powertrains as the crew-cab with 7-speed and 6-speed automatic transmissions respectively. The 139.8-inch wheelbase remains unchanged but the bed length grows from 5.5-feet to a full 8-feet, enough to carry the proverbial sheets of plywood or drywall with the tailgate closed. In keeping with its mission as a work truck the maximum payload has been increased by just over 300-pounds to 2,910 for the gas model and 2,420 for the diesel. Towing capability increases by a similar amount to 11,590-pounds with the gas V8 and 12,640 for the diesel.
Pricing won’t be announced until closer to launch late this year, but as with the current crew-cab and the competitors there will be more affordable S trim levels with steel wheels, no chrome and cloth upholstery as well as the flashier SV. At some point after the launch of the single-cab, Nissan will also bring back the intermediate extended King-cab model as well to round out the lineup.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2016/07/25/nissan-introduces-single-cab-variant-of-full-size-titan-pickup-for-2017/
2016-07-26T01:30:00+00:00