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- Mustang SVO - Frontier Pro-4X - BRZ - D21 Hardbody
As many of you may know for the last couple months I have had an irrational idea to buy a truck/SUV. I've swung back and forth on different ideas, new or used, Toyota, Ford, Nissan. It became almost an obsession. Nightly I would scour Craigslist, Autotrader, Cars.com, etc. Each night I would find a new batch of trucks to drool over. Some nights my rational side would win, finding R50 Pathfinders, D22 Frontiers and the occasional 4Runner. Other nights I'd let me imagination run wild, "OOH!", I'd exclaim. "Look at that shiny new Xterra or that beautiful metallic blue Frontier!" Ultimately, the rational side of my brain would reel in that imagination and I'd go back to looking at trucks with 190k plus miles at less than $4k. Making a monthly payment is a bad idea on a truck you plan to abuse slightly off-road, right? Then I have had one heck a bad idea...
Let me introduce to you, my 2014 Nissan Frontier D40 (Navara) Pro-4X. This baby is loaded down with more kit than should ever be allowed in a truck. Leather, power and heated front seats, navigation, Blueteeth, sunroof (Why is there a sunroof in a truck?!), roof rack, back-up camera (with sensors that warn you as you close in on an object), etc. Heck there's more buttons on the steering wheel than a Ferrari. The truck like things it has are four wheel drive, a honking great 261 horsepower/281 lb/ft torque gasoline 4.0 V6 backed with a 5-speed automatic transmission, a bed behind the cab (with factory spray-in bedliner and Nissan's Utili-track system) and finally the entire reason I went for the Pro-4X, a electric locking rear differential. That way once your stuck, you can really bury the back wheels in the mud/sand/snow.
Now, you may have noticed that this is a 2014 model and as such you'd expect it to have a year's worth of mileage on it already. That's where you'd be wrong. When I drove off of the lot yesterday the odometer read just 3,031 miles. Yup, a basically new 2014 for used money. Even has the Nissan Certified Pre-Owned warranty. As for the price? Won't say. I'm a bit embarrassed about spending this much on a truck. However, I think if I treat it well and perform all the maintenance as the book says, this truck will be with me for a very, very long time.
I can sense you are getting anxious, so.... ON TO THE PHOTOS!
Keep an eye on this thread for the adventures my family and I will take this truck on over the coming years. We hope to make it back... :lol:
Let me introduce to you, my 2014 Nissan Frontier D40 (Navara) Pro-4X. This baby is loaded down with more kit than should ever be allowed in a truck. Leather, power and heated front seats, navigation, Blueteeth, sunroof (Why is there a sunroof in a truck?!), roof rack, back-up camera (with sensors that warn you as you close in on an object), etc. Heck there's more buttons on the steering wheel than a Ferrari. The truck like things it has are four wheel drive, a honking great 261 horsepower/281 lb/ft torque gasoline 4.0 V6 backed with a 5-speed automatic transmission, a bed behind the cab (with factory spray-in bedliner and Nissan's Utili-track system) and finally the entire reason I went for the Pro-4X, a electric locking rear differential. That way once your stuck, you can really bury the back wheels in the mud/sand/snow.
Now, you may have noticed that this is a 2014 model and as such you'd expect it to have a year's worth of mileage on it already. That's where you'd be wrong. When I drove off of the lot yesterday the odometer read just 3,031 miles. Yup, a basically new 2014 for used money. Even has the Nissan Certified Pre-Owned warranty. As for the price? Won't say. I'm a bit embarrassed about spending this much on a truck. However, I think if I treat it well and perform all the maintenance as the book says, this truck will be with me for a very, very long time.
I can sense you are getting anxious, so.... ON TO THE PHOTOS!
Keep an eye on this thread for the adventures my family and I will take this truck on over the coming years. We hope to make it back... :lol: