Titan gets style touch-up, safety updates
Nissan has updated the Titan pickup truck with better looks and a host of new technological and performance updates.
Nissan calls the new exterior design “Powerful Warrior,” and it’s easy to see why. The grille has been revised to look more aggressive, but it’s not ridiculous, and the LED headlights provide much more illumination.
There are more LEDs hiding in the bed as well, to light up the cargo area — they’re activated by opening the tailgate.
The new Titan also has a more luxurious interior, with a woodgrain steering wheel and real wood touches available, which should stand up to the more expensive truck interiors we’re seeing these days. There is a panoramic sunroof in the crew cab, and eight- or nineinch touch screens are available.
Under the hood is Nissan’s trusty 5.6-litre V-8 engine, now producing 400 horsepower and 413 poundfeet of torque. It is connected to a new nine-speed automatic transmission — two more gears than in the previous transmission. A 3.69:1 axle ratio gives the truck more leverage when the going gets tough, and it helped knock almost a second off the 80-to-110 km/h time.
Nissan is stepping up its safety game in the 2020 Titan. Eight airbags are now standard, as well as Safety Shield 360, which includes forward automatic emergency braking with pedestrian detection, reverse automatic emergency braking, blind-spot monitoring, rear cross-traffic alert, lane-departure warning and automatic highbeam headlights. Also available are a surround-view camera, traffic-sign recognition, and adaptive cruise control.