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It looks like Nissan Titan fans will have to wait a few more years before the next generation Titan comes out. When the Nissan-Chrysler deal fell through, the Japanese automaker announced their commitment to stay in the full size pickup truck market and they are already working on the Titan replacement by themselves.

Although they didn’t have a display at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show that’s about to end this weekend, Nissan managed to make announcements about their trucks at the event.

The Nissan Titan experienced a few setbacks apart from the deal that didn’t happen including dwindling sales numbers. 2009 sales of the Nissan Titan dropped 44.1% from the previous year. But Nissan remains hopeful about the Titan.

“We had a pretty good December,” said Larry Dominique, Nissan North America’s VP for Product Planning. “From a market share standpoint, in October, November and December we were up 28 percent from the year before, on a month-by-month basis. On a [market] share basis, we were up 41% for those three months.”

According to Dominique, the increased sales were due to the cumulative effort of Titan dealers to seek out loyal customers whose old Nissan Titans need replacement. Nissan also improved the Nissan Titan’s traffic in showrooms and offered “value packaging”, which bundles popular option packages at a lower price.

The Titan is already the oldest half-ton pickup out there and since it debuted way back in 2003, this truck’s life span will reach up to 11 years. Nissan will likely be keeping the Titan’s 5.6-liter V8, but will be adding short term enhancements using hardware from their existing trucks such as the Nissan Armada and the Infiniti QX56 until its full redesign in 2014.

Dominique also said they will be seeking the approval of the Japan team and Nissan Senior VP for Light Commercial Vehicle business unit Andy Palmer and CEO Carlos Ghosn about building a heavy duty Titan and a light commercial vehicle truck. The heavy duty Titan will have a different powertrain and frame, but the same exterior and interior designs. On the other hand, the 2500 or a 3500 truck will allow their LCV team to grow and give them more truck volume. Reports say that while the light duty truck once approved will begin production after at least 2 years, the heavy duty truck may come out even before the release of the all-new Titan in 2014.



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The Future of the Nissan Titan is yet to be determined. Nissan had been working with Chrysler to build a truck for them based on the Dodge Ram, but both companies decided to part ways. Nissan is committed to staying in the light truck market and is looking at other manufacturers (such as Ford, GM, and Toyota) or building the second generation Titan in house. Production of the Frontier, Pathfinder, and X-Terra would also be uncertain because of their Titan underpinnings. The new Titan is thus can be expected in 2014.

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that's a long wait for us in 2014. That's what nice about Nissan is that if they have a product that everybody admires and appreciates. They tend to focus on developing that aspect. And they don't just release new ones easily but they tend to see its feasibility before releasing it.

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very nice forum, I am glad to be in your community, I love nissan titan very much too.
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After the plan to sell a new Titan derived from the Dodge Ram 1500 was canned a couple of years ago, Nissan's full-size pickup has remained somewhat in limbo. For the 2011 model year, the Titan will solider on with only minor updates, essentially 4×4 badging added to the tail gate of four-wheel drive models and revised names for trim levels – S, SV and SL in place of the previous (and familiar) XE, SE and LE.

For off-road fans, the Pro 4X will continue unchanged. Other than that, the 2011 will be much like the current Titan, employing just a single engine – a 5.6-liter single overhead cam V8 with 317 horsepower. It's a flex fuel engine with E85 capability and Nissan claims that with it, the Titan can tow up to 9,500 lbs, but the lack of change and options compared with some rivals, especially Ford, Ram and GM, is likely to further hurt sales, which have trailed off considerably in the last few years. Rumors indicate that their might be an all new Titan by 2014, but by then the original will have been on the market for more than a decade with very few changes, which might hurt Nissan's chance to gain new full-size truck customers.