Lets talk titan

[600xc4me]

Looking at buying a truck here in about a year, Spending around $15,000 possibly up to $20,000. I am open to pretty much any brand half ton, besides toyota. Around 04 and up. I am hearing good things about the Nissan Titan. Anybody here own one? How do you like yours? I would be pulling a four place sled trailer to the mountains a few times per year, so need something that will pull pretty good. But not looking to go diesel or 2500 gas. Lets hear some pros and cons on the titan.

 

[Wheel House Motorsports]

hmm.. for that kinda money you could get something a LOT more capable then a half ton, similar years, and not a titan.. my buddy had one, it was alright, but more like a big car with a bed someone slapped on it. im curious as your reasoning against diesel or a 3/4 ton?? i like them as they handle the weight of anything a LOT better and heck, my 7.3 with a 6spd gets 16mpg no matter how hard I drive it, even with around 1/4 of the tank with a couple thousand pounds of trailer and crap on/behind it.. eats big block gassers for milage, and the 3/4 ton is so much nicer for everything else.

I understand people have there minds set on things for certain reasons, im just curious, I feel like for that kinda money, a titan would be the last thing on my list.

 

[600xc4me]

Around here you can't really buy a nice half ton for under $15,000, and a nice diesel starts around $20,000. Big reason for going gas is price, I'm planning on paying cash, or at least 70% cash if its more than I'll have saved by then. The other main reason is I don't need one 90% of the year. The only time it would really be needed is when I would pull the sleds to the mountains. We only make a few trips per year, so buying a diesel for those few trips in a year would hardly be worth the extra price. We have done it with a gas before, and it works fine. My normal every day use is driving back and forth to work, carrying my sled around in the back when sledding locally, and a quad in the summer. I would love a nice diesel and would buy one over a half ton gas any day if they were comparable in price. but for the difference in price I just can't see it happening. If I can find a nice one in that price range I will consider it though! Cause I would love one.
And my reason for not wanting a 3/4 ton gas, would be fuel mileage. The extra weight and braking power would be nice, but if it's still a gas, in a 3/4 ton, then your gas mileage is NOT GOOD. So it's either a half ton gas, or 3/4 ton diesel if price will allow. But for most of my daily use it would be over kill.

And I'm not very into the titan, but I want to know more about it, the rest of the brands I know pretty well, but really have no idea on the titan. My buddies' boss has one, and my buddy drives it quite a bit for work reasons. He currently owns a 07 chev half ton, and says if he was in the market for a new truck he would hands down, buy a titan. So that sparked my interest a bit.

 

[CO 2.0]

I had a Titan as a loaner. Worst full size truck I've ever driven. Interior is lack luster plastic crap too. The Titan in 4WD had about as much grip on a snow/ice covered road as my Chevy Dmax does in 2WD. Titan looked like it had okay tires on too. I seriously thought the 4WD didn't work in the Titan 1/2 the time since it would fish tail on the ice...where my Chevy 3/4 ton stayed planted in 2WD. I would not recommend one. I feel more comfortable and confident in Chevy, Ford, Dodge and even Toyota over the Nissan. (Driven them all)

 

[600xc4me]

Thanks, good info. ^^ Any owners here with lots of miles on theirs?