Nissan Prices 2017 Titan Crew Cab V8 From $35,975, 2017 Armada From $45,395

Timothy Cain
by Timothy Cain

Nissan’s second-generation Titan arrives in crew cab, V8 form with a U.S. base price of $35,975, including $1,195 for destination and handling.

A terribly long run for Nissan’s first full-size pickup truck effort resulted in only 471,242 U.S. sales between 2002 and 2015, roughly the total number of Ford F-Series pickups sold every seven months. Nissan has forged a unique strategy for the Titan’s relaunch, with the heavier-duty — though not quite Heavy Duty — Titan XD already on the market with a 310-horsepower Cummins 5.0-liter V8 diesel powerplant.

Now the regular-duty 2017 Nissan Titan is arriving in concert with an upgraded full-size pickup truck warranty that matches Nissan’s commercial van coverage: bumper-to-bumper, five years/100,000 miles.

With regular-duty Titans largely unavailable of late, U.S. sales of the midsize Nissan Frontier skyrocketed in the early part of 2016. “Skyrocket” is not a term ever used to describe Titan volume. U.S. sales peaked at 86,945 units in 2005, the truck’s second full year on sale. Nissan averaged fewer than 17,000 annual sales since 2010.

2017 Titan crew cabs will be sold in S, SV, SL, Platinum Reserve, and 4×4-only PRO-4X guise, all with a seven-speed automatic transmission and a 5.6-liter V8 producing 390 horsepower. The SV is a $2,890 leap beyond the base S. The Titan SL is nearly $9,000 more expensive than the SV. Four-wheel drive adds $3,030 to the price of the S and SV, $3,080 to the price of the SL, and $3,090 to the price of the Platinum Reserve.

Pricing for the top-of-the-line 2017 Nissan Titan Platinum Reserve Crew Cab 4×4 starts at $56,595. The least costly four-wheel drive Titan Crew Cab is priced from $39,005. (The least expensive F-150 SuperCrew 3.5-liter EcoBoost 4×4 variant of the best-selling pickup truck line in America, Ford’s F-Series, currently includes $1,500 of incentives that pull the price down to $38,570.)

In most trims, pricing for the 2017 Titan XD with the 5.6-liter gas engine requires a $1,510 jump above the equivalent regular-duty Titan.

Nissan’s other full-size, body-on-frame vehicle now operates on the separate platform of the global Nissan Patrol and the three-year-old Infiniti QX80. With $995 in destination and handling fees, 2017 Nissan Armada SV pricing begins at $45,395. Four-wheel drive adds $2,900.

At the top of the heap, the 2017 Nissan Armada Platinum AWD starts at $60,985. Prices for the Infiniti QX80 begin at $64,245.

Sales of the outgoing Armada peaked at nearly 40,000 units in 2005, its second full year of availability. 37,083 Armadas have been sold in America over the last three years. Segment-wide volume across the full-size, volume brand SUV spectrum is up 9 percent this year, but Nissan and Toyota combine to earn less than 8 percent market share.

Nissan says the 2017 Nissan Armada is on sale now. 2017 Titans are beginning to arrive in Nissan’s U.S. showrooms.

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  • Kkop Kkop on Aug 15, 2016

    I have owned two Titans (consecutively, for almost 250,000 miles combined), and now own two Ram 1500 trucks (simultaneously). Titan reliability was pretty good, except for the cracking exhaust manifolds; a $2,500 job (covered under extended warranty luckily for me) on each of the trucks, with the second Titan (@ 187,000 miles when I traded it) due for its third set of manifolds... Nissan never changed that 'feature' in the Titan's long run (12+ years), they just kept installing new manifolds that would eventually crack again. The fuel economy of the Ram trucks (with MDS on the Hemi) is much better than the Titan. In mixed driving, I get around 20mpg in the Rams. Reliability of the Rams has been good so far: I've got a combined 90,000 miles on the trucks now, and no issues to speak of. The ride in the Rams is also much smoother than the Old Titan. And last, but for me at 6'4" certainly not least, the driver's position is an ergonomic minefield in the Titan; lots of leg and headroom, but if you sit upright your eyes are close to being in line with the upper edge of the windshield. New Titan looks like it retained that design feature, so I'll stick with the slightly better position in the Ram. My main gripe with the Rams is no telescoping steering wheel, on any trim :-( So, if I had to choose today between Ram and Titan, I'd go with the Ram.

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    • Kkop Kkop on Aug 16, 2016

      @gtem The ticking is a feature of the Hemi engines; some do it, some don't. According to Ram, and also other owners of high-mileage vehicles, it won't hurt the engine. After 180,000 combined Hemi miles (we also own a 90,000 mile 6MT Challenger), I'd have to agree with them.

  • Lost Lost on Aug 16, 2016

    @LIKE TTAC.COM ON FACEBOOK I completely agree. I thought it was an F150 first glance at the picture. This truck has been morphing that direction and this takes it almost there.

  • FreedMike Yeah, this trend needs to die a painful death.
  • THX1136 This reminds me of a 'fad' back when I was in high school that was equally silly. A few folks would put spacers in the rear springs to lift the back end of the vehicle to ridiculous heights. We would joke that they must think it makes the car go faster since it feels like you're driving downhill all the time. Dangerous for all the reasons Redapple2 mentions.
  • Arthur Dailey Just a couple of questions. Are you adding a stabilizer to your gas tank as the gas sits so long? Aren't tires usable for up to 10 years after manufacture, rather than 7? And should you wait so long between oil changes? Even with the low mileage can the oil degrade? Eagerly awaiting responses from one and all.
  • Redapple2 I m afraid I d hate the crazy color 2 yrs down the line of a 6 year ownership. So, after dark blues, and dark reds I m back to a wonderful deep, pearly, lustrous white. Looks good at night. In the day. Clean; and when dirty, hides it.
  • THX1136 Some folks down the street from me had a beautiful blue/green Jeep. I stay away from grey, brown, silver and black. Ironically I own a white vehicle at the moment due to not being able to afford the blue one I was considering and not wanting the aforementioned colors. A nice emerald green, most shades of blue (Santa Fe Blue is a favorite) and the 'hotter' colors like orange, purple and yellow appeal, but as KOKing mentioned it's got to look 'right' on the car in question.
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