2016 Nissan Titan XD Gasoline V-8 First Drive: More than a Half, Less than Three-Quarters

-That Nissan’s Titan pickup has always been a bit of an outlier in the fiercely competitive truck segment is not lost on its maker. So when it came time to introduce its new almost-heavy-duty 2016 Titan XD truck at the 2015 Detroit auto show, it didn’t feel compelled to follow the norms set by the three main players in the HD truck segment. Aimed at the so-called white space between traditional half-ton trucks and three-quarter-ton trucks, the XD is built on a new, specific chassis that shares next to zero parts with the forthcoming half-ton Titan. It was initially available with the potentially game-changing 5.0-liter Cummins turbo-diesel V-8 as the sole powertrain (we referred to it as a five-eighth-ton truck in our recent instrumented test of the diesel XD). Now, the first 2016 Titan XD crew-cab trucks equipped with Nissan’s heavily revised 5.6-liter gasoline V-8 are just beginning to slip onto dealership lots. READ MORE ››

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