Over 5 years ago big massive dinosaur SUV’s roamed the land and had quite an
ability to go anywhere although they usually roamed around on smooth surfaces.
As more and more SUV’s started roaming the land, their food was becoming scarcer
and although they were surviving, they were stressed. Then in 2007 a comet of
financial burden would crash down and caused many SUV’s to become extinct as
their owners could not afford them anymore. Owners wanted a dinosaur that were
less destructive and hungry and that’s when all the auto manufacturers started
euthanizing the SUV. Today we see that auto manufacturers with the exception of
Jeep are executing their SUV’s with extreme prejudice. On the plus side Jeep
sales are great and they are thanking all the other manufactures for scrapping
their programs.
So what is Nissan to do, they have already turned the Nissan Pathfinder 2013
Model into a nose coned minivan and have Xterra fan boys and girls such as
myself that are asking for a continuation of this inexpensive means to outdoor
freedom. The problem is that market trends don’t look to hot as everyone either
wants a fat-ass 7-passenger minivan crossover thingy or they want a cute little
crossover that can’t go off more than a dirt road. So hopefully we will see that
there is some life still in the 2013 Nissan Xterra. The Nissan Xterra has been a
large seller for Nissan in the past but is not really producing any wow figures.
What may save the Xterra is the Frontier. As these two vehicles share everything
but a bed (get it) they are pretty much like one vehicle that is just optioned
heavily. But Frontier sales have been good to Nissan as it is only second to the
Rogue in Nissan truck sales.
So hopefully Nissan will go back to the roots of the Xterra and give us a
capable off-road vehicle for cheap and startit off with no frills in the
interior because we are just going to mount GPS’s, Tilt Gauges, Mag-Light
holders and GoPros on the dash anyways. We just need the beefy powertrain and
maybe some MPG’s can be squeezed out as well. But look for the Direct Injected
3.7 L to go into this baby and a starting price tag of around $25K.
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