Nissan sells its new NV2500 HD High Roof Edition van for $91.24 per cubic feet of cargo space.
Seem a good buy?
Unsure, however the car maker is wishing it does because it tries to crack the challenging full-size van market within the U . s . States.
The NV, available too inside a standard flat-top version, is dependant on the ladder frame chassis of Nissan’s Titan pickup and built alongside it in Canton, Mississippi.
Prices begins at $25,930 for any base NV1500 and $29,480 for that least-costly High Roof Edition, the NV2500 HD which i spent my Christmas vacation pedaling around Nashville in. A much more capable NV3500 HD tops the selection.
The NV’s unique Cyrano p Bergerac look is thanks simply to the pickup roots, but Nissan touts the lengthy hood as offering simpler accessibility engine compartment and keep the motor housing from intruding in to the cabin, out of the box frequently the situation with snub-nosed vans. The conventional engine found under it's a 260 hewlett packard 4.-liter V6, but a honking 317 hewlett packard 5.6-liter V8 can be obtained for an additional $900. Either in situation, a five-speed automatic transmission transmits the energy towards the rear wheels.
Nissan’s V . P . of business Automobiles and Fleet, Joe Castelli, states the NV was created using the small company owner-operator in your mind, while offering most of the conveniences from the office, otherwise home. To that particular finish, it's cushy bucket seats with strengthened bolsters to assist them to support many years of records and exits storage drawers underneath them a passenger chair that folds forward for use like a workspace as well as an enormous center console can that be used as a dangling folder filing cabinet. Four jumbo-size cupholders service the 2 industrious people aboard, because, you realize, America.
Nissan’s very-good-but-getting-old navigation and infotainment product is a $950 option, nevertheless its 5-inch screen looks pretty dinky within the capacious NV. It's very welcome like a backup camera, however, and combined with rear sonar system that's incorporated around the trendy SV trim level, is effective to create parking the large box very simple. Presuming that you will find a space that’s lengthy enough to slot in – the NV is really a solid 20 ft from tip to tail.
Similarly, the top High Roof Edition has ended eight . 5 ft off the floor, and 6-feet three-inch Jeremy Lin could fully stand up inside. This can be a large feature for Nissan as neither Ford nor Vehicle develops their very own tall boy van, and also the least expensive high roof Mercedes-Benz Runner costs about ten grand greater than the NV. Additionally, it implies that when the Knicks gig doesn’t exercise, Lin could always do advertisements for his local Nissan dealer.
“’Here’s an offer you are able to drive towards the hole!..that you’re digging. Because you’re a specialist. Have it?’ Ugh. When does that check obvious?”
You will find literally a large number of built-in mounting points within the 323.1 cubic feet space back there for shelves, steps and so on, together with six D-ring tie downs for loose cargo. The ground is both big enough to support the requisite 8’ x 4’ dry wall sheets that commercial automobiles worth their union dues are measured by, in addition to 10-feet lengthy pipes.
I don’t claim to possess a large amount of (read: any) experience employed in trades that need may be, but I've been to U-Haul a few occasions, and not simply for that bubble wrap. While still not quite a Maxima, or perhaps Armada, the NV includes a remarkably bounce-free ride, and also the potent V8 makes me question if there’s this type of factor as short track van racing.
It’s also a remarkable sight to determine. The flightless Super Guppy came many envious looks in the local plumbers and delivery motorists I passed while cruising around Music City with my slightly appalled wife looking for an elegant Hot Chicken lunch. It required her some time to understand that in truck country, so near to Nissan’s U.S. HQ in Franklin, Tennessee, i was undoubtedly the best couple around.
(Keith and Nicole can eat our dust.)
Truck is paramount word, based on Nissan, because that type of construction enables the NV3500HD to hold an optimum payload of 3925 pounds and tow as much as 9,500 pounds. More essential, Ford is going to replace its king from the hill E-Series with generation x of their European Transit van, that is built on the unibody chassis. Ford doesn’t appear to become sweating it, a number of its clients happen to be purchasing Econolines for literally decades which type of inertia is difficult to face up to, but people who really sweat as a living aren’t always the simplest to convince that some fancy Euro-van are designed for their hard days’ work.
Chance is knocking for Nissan, and also the NV is able to hop from the bench and complete for anybody by having an open position. It also includes a passenger form of the NV coming later this season that seats 12.
The coach will have to slum it within an Infiniti.
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2012 Nissan NV2500 HD
Base Cost: $29,480
Type: 2-passenger cargo van
Engine: 5.6L V8
Energy: 317 hewlett packard, 383 lb-foot torque
Transmission: 5-speed automatic
MPG: NA
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