Should Nissan Armada Also Be Discontinued? - Gazette Dubai
Nissan’s body-on-frame, old-school Xterra SUV will be going out of production after being on the market for 15 years. Nissan have not announced a replacement model yet and we don’t expect there will be a new Xterra at any point in the near future. The reason for that is that even though truck and SUV sales are increasing after the unibody crossover segment, the only body-on-frame rigs that are receiving any sort of attention at the moment are full-size SUVs with big tow capacities, pickups... After being on the market for 15 years, the Xterra has only been fully redesigned one time in 2005 and some of the interior is so outdated that you wouldn’t be surprised to see it in a museum. On-road dynamics have never been one of its strong points, but now that drivers are more used to stable, carlike crossovers, the lifted suspension can feel quite tippy. Sales for the current-generation’s model dropped from 72,447 in 2005 to only 16,505 last year and the biggest drop took place in 2008 when the recession and high gas prices were at its peak. Apart from the sorrowful sales reports, it has been said that Nissan will start to phase out the current Frontier pickup which the Xterra is based on to make room for a new one and the carmaker can most probably make use of the extra space for the... The end of the Xterra does upset us. Just like the Jeep Wrangler, there is something quite appealing about a truck-ish SUV which. Source: www.gazettedubai.com
