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I'm up in the air about it. Hybrid is generally a good idea, but I'm not sure about this combination. Is there enough of an increase in mileage to offset the $3000 additional cost?
I often wonder why they don't do both. I suppose it's the way of the future with the higher required mileage so there's no place for the kind of vehicle Pathfinder was.
Of course those people who need the abilities of that type of truck are royally screwed when they are no longer available.
I often wonder why they don't do both. I suppose it's the way of the future with the higher required mileage so there's no place for the kind of vehicle Pathfinder was.
Of course those people who need the abilities of that type of truck are royally screwed when they are no longer available.
yeah the time when SUV's really were Sport Utility Vehicles are over.
Heck the original design of the Pathfinder was to compete with the Blazer, Bronco and 4-runner and jeeps of the day.
The North American first generation Pathfinder came in two different bodies and shared styling and most components with the Nissan Hardbody Truck.
yeah the time when SUV's really were Sport Utility Vehicles are over.
Well... the time of SUVs isn't over, the time of people using SUVs as lifted stationwagons is over. SUVs have been replaced by unibody crossovers that deliver the on-road driving experience and space consumers want, not the off road and truck capabilities that are inherent in an SUV.
There are still SUVs around, but they are receding to the popularity they had before the shift from minivans to SUVs/CUVs exploded.
LOL from the C&D comments section:
"Say goodbye to Mr. Pathfinder and hello to Mrs. Mallfinder"
That is pretty funny. Nissan has actually gone back and forth between frame and unibody with the Pathfinder before. The last gen Pathfinder was a body on frame truck, the gen before it a unibody, and the original gen was a frame truck as well.
I think Nissan views the Pathfinder as a neighborhood commuter now and left the truck duty to the Xterra.
Body on frame is overrated anyway. The Cherokee/Grand Cherokee has always been competent off-road, it's no Wrangler, but good enough. It's not really so much the unibody as the design. I think it's a nice Mallfinder, but I wouldn't try to find any unpaved paths in it.
I always enjoyed reading clueless hack journalists reacting to the new Cherokee and how they keep mentioning its now more a CUV than SUV now because of the unibody. Makes you seriously question who writes these articles. They obviously know nothing about cars and are too lazy to even do their research... but I guess the flowery prose is what sells advertising.
Well, there's real value in a body on frame design when you need it. It was a specialized design once unibody became mainstream, it just took automakers 20 years to make unibody versions of the vehicles people really wanted - station wagons with high seating positions and 6" of ground clearance!
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