2000
ICOTY Awards - Pick Up Truck
Most Athletic - Nissan
Frontier
We
think the “own one and you’ll understand”
tagline for Infiniti, Nissan’s upscale division,
is misplaced. It should belong to the Nissan family of
trucks, as those who own Nissan trucks understand that
they will continue to run until fossil fuel becomes extinct.
This truck is a good, solid basic workhorse that asks
for little and delivers a lot, and does it without breathing
hard. That’s the sign of a tremendous athlete.
The 3.3-liter 170-horsepower uplevel engine choice is
the way to go, and the four doors on a compact pickup
just add more muscle to an already beefy package. We never
really understood the three-door configuration on other
trucks; it was impossible to open in tight parking spaces,
and never seemed to stay put once you finally got it open.
If the Frontier is anything like it’s predecessor,
the hard body, look for these trucks to stay fit for a
long, long time.
