Nissan Titan Q&A Tomorrow at 9:30 AM ET With Brent Hagan - Submit Your Questions Now!

by Mark Stevenson

Published: December 2nd, 2015

nissan titan q a tomorrow at 9 30 am et with brent hagan submit your questions now

I’m currently putting the Nissan Titan XD through its paces in Arizona. This new truck from Nissan is infinitely interesting to me for a multitude of reasons: mostly its 5-liter ‘Triple Nickel” Cummins V-8 and its no-man’s-land placement in the truck marketplace. However, what might be important to me might not be important to you, and vice versa, so we are going to do a Q&A before our review.

Tomorrow morning we will have Nissan Titan product planning manager Brent Hagan here on TTAC to answer any questions you send our way.

Hit the comments below and submit your questions. ~~We are going to try to do a live-blog-style solution tomorrow, but we might not have time to implement it. If we don’t get it sorted in time,~~ we will use the questions you submit on this post to answer as many as we can starting at 9:30 a.m. ET tomorrow.

Note: We definitely won’t have live blogging. If you have questions, make sure to post them here before tomorrow morning.

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Big Al from Oz on Dec 02, 2015

What is the commonality between this Titan and the Patrol, in particular the front end. Can a Patrol front steering setup be transferred and bolted on the Titan? Can the dash from a Patrol including steering be interchangeable? How difficult would it be to use a Patrol for a LH drive to RH drive conversion?

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DeadWeight on Dec 03, 2015

Why has Nissan taken so long to match specs with the Ford F Series thus far, given the F Series so-so reliability and somewhat shoddy build quality, in terms of a full size, solid pickup competitor, powered by a variety of gasoline and diesel motors? Was this a political decision, as in not wanting to go after Ford's cash cow, and possibly cause political repercussions? Thank you.

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- Lou_BC on Dec 03, 2015
  
  DeadWeight - Fred Diaz was Ram's head honcho when Ram and Nissan were working on a joint pickup. The Cummins 5.0 was going to be a Ram 1500 engine. All that fell apart with the Chrysler bankruptcy. If anything, Diaz has a ton of insider information about Ram. The Titan XD with Cummins is more likely to target Ram since they have the worst durability/build quality in the industry. If this truck is more durable than a Ram (not hard to do) then it will give customers loyal to Cummins an alternative. I also am willing to bet that Diaz has an axe to grind in relation to FCA. Unlike Big Al, I do not think this truck represents much of a threat to Ford.
  
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- Big Al from Oz on Dec 03, 2015
  
  @Lou_BC Lou, Ford F-250s are the biggest selling HDs. Many are bought as car/SUV alternatives for dad to tow his daughters horse to a gymkana and pony club. The following weekend he hooks up his 23 foot fishing boat to chase pelagics a little way off shore. Sometimes he will go to Lowes and buy 5 bags of chips for the lawn and drive to work everday. This truck isn't a work truck as such. It's like many light F-250 SuperDutys, with one big exception. It rides far better, handles much better and tows as well. He isn't going to load the bed with 2 000lbs of copper wire he stole to take to the scrap yard and try to tow a trailer with 12 000lbs of gravel. He will have enough money to pay someone to bring the gravel in a dump truck. I was correct about quite a few recent trends in the US pickup market. I'm correct about this Titan as well. Nissan only need to sell 5 000 a month to impact the Big Three. Ford will lose a couple thousand pickups. This doesn't include the lighter 1/2 ton gas Titan when it comes out. Nissan are planning on 150 000 Titans in total per year. I'd bet they are planning on at least 100 000 Frontier/Navaras a year. Someone will hurt because of this and Ford will lose out and I think Toyota with the Tundra will feel the effects more so than Ram. Ford didn't play it's best hand in the pickup market and have made some courageous decisions, or in your terminology "poor".
  
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- Chocolatedeath on Dec 03, 2015
  
  @Big Al from Oz Big Al..I must disagree with some of your statements. Firstly from what I can see (could be wrong) The Frontier and its kind are growing but I dont think that its at the expense of the Big 3 trucks. The whole segment got bigger with the GM twins and no one lost sale that I believe are directly related to the rise of midsize trucks, other than midsize cars. Lastly the two Big trucks that I think that will suffer most (all will as the over market for Big Trucks has slowed a little) will but Tundra and Ram sales. Thats my two cents. I have been wrong before and will be wrong again.
  
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- Big Al from Oz on Dec 03, 2015
  
  Chocolatedeath, Thanks, my belief is sooner or latter the midsizers will start to eat into full size sales. I did predict the Colorado would take CUV/SUV numbers with a few lighter V6 NA powered pickups. As for the brands that will take the biggest hit with the XD I do believe the lighter F-250 will take the hit for a good reason. The reason is many of the lighter F-250s are sold for the very purpose this pickup was made, to have a pickup sort of handle like a 1/2 ton with the ability to tow a large trailer.
  
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Scoutdude on Dec 03, 2015

How many do you project you'll sell per month/year?

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Chocolatedeath on Dec 03, 2015

My question is, will they be an updated Armada on this platform? Also what is the likely hood of an Hybrid? Will there be an Infiniti version?

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