New-Comer: 2009 Nissan Frontier PRO-4X - TruckTrend Magazine
You have to give credit to Nissan. At a time when fuel prices are stopping new-truck buyers in their tracks and with full-size Nissan fans still in shock from the fact Dodge will be making the next Titan, in a midsize truck segment where sales have been flat for almost a decade,... The PRO-4X package was the Nissan Titan's equivalent to the Silverado's Z71 or F-150's FX4 off-road packages, but it never really caught on for Nissan's big pickup. Nissan's offering the new off-road package in the 2009 Frontier and Xterra and, from what we can tell, it looks serious. Most of the original-equipment manufacturers' 4WD packages amount to little more than big tires and stickers, but Nissan has done much more here. It started by offering the PRO-4X package with a unique set of gauge backgrounds and cluster surrounds. The larger tires with the off-road bias are BFGoodrich Rugged Trail T/As, sized at about 31 inches in diameter (265/75R16) with enough sidewall to allow for plenty of marshmallow-like conforming when aired down for hard-core rockcrawling. In fact, on the model we saw, the spare tire was matched with the package, but we haven't been able to confirm that will be the case once the package is finalized and offered to dealers. Source: www.trucktrend.com
