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 ...

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