So I'm looking through the August issue of Car & Driver, and notice that
they have an article about the Nissan Frontier crew cab. "Aw, rats," I
think, "they managed to beat the Quad Cab Dak to market."
I decided to scan through the article to see what I could learn about the
competition. I found one interesting thing. According to C&D, Nissan's
owners manual states the following:
Avoid driving in deep water or mud,
as your Nissan is mainly designed
for leisure use, unlike a conventional
off-road vehicle.
Later, I was reading the August issue of Four Wheeler. They have a pretty
good sized article on WATERPROOFING of all things, and they saw fit to
include a picture of the air intake of a current model Dakota. The caption
reads:
This air intake is a good example of a
well-designed factory setup. Air enters
from a relatively high point above and
behind the headlight, goes into the air
cleaner from the bottom (which allows
for some water ingestion without soaking
the filter), and enters the engine via
a plenum. Converting to a snorkel setup
would also be very simple with the
factory plenum as a starting point.
So, apparently when Nissan says "conventional off-road vehicle," they must
mean a DAKOTA QUAD CAB ! BWAHAHAHA!!!
I sure hope DC's marketing dept. knows about this. I've already thought of
four or five good commercials for the Quad Cab to take advantage of this
(Quad Cab Dakota rescuing a drowned Nissan, for example). I love it.
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Jason Bleazard http://www.bleazard.net Toronto, Ontario
current: '95 Dakota Sport white 4x4 Reg. Cab V6/3.9L/5spd
current: '98 Dakota Sport black 4x4 Club Cab V8/5.2L/Auto
RIP: '95 Dakota Sport black 4x2 Club Cab V6/3.9L/Auto
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