Nissan will add Titan commercial models.(Nissan Motor Company Ltd)

Automotive News, March, 2006 by Kranz, Rick

Byline: Rick Kranz

Commercial versions of Nissan's next-generation Titan pickup will be aimed at the Chevrolet Silverado 2500 and Ford F-250 pickups.

The new Titan pickup will debut as a 2009 model. It will be developed on Nissan's re-engineered platform for full-sized trucks. The current Titan competes with the Silverado 1500 and F-150 pickups and is limited to two models: the King Cab and Crew Cab.

The Titan engineered for commercial applications will be "heavier than we have today; more substantial,'' Jed Connelly, Nissan's senior vice president of sales and marketing, said at the Geneva auto show.

It will be a truck that requires a "diesel application and some other things,'' he said. But he said that Nissan will not offer a...

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