I'm OK with with it not having telescoping steering wheel because I found a comfortable driving position for me. Unfortunately 1 size doesn't fit all. Question to Nissan is...tilt/telescoping SW is on most of your other vehicles...why not Frontier?
The screen size it perfect - I don't want or need a jumbotron in the middle of my dash. Do people really pass on the Frontier (or any other vehicle) because of screen size?
Steering 'feel'. Like I said in another post, steering effort has nothing to do with it being hydraulic. I don't know where people get that from. It has 'heavy' steering because that's what Nissan deigned it to feel like. They could have just as easily designed it to be feather light or anything in between. Does the steering feel like a truck? IDK, I've driven a late model full size Silverado many times and it has a lighter steering effort. Was the Silverado not truck-like steering? I'd personally like it to be boosted a bit more, but I bought a Frontier so I must not be too hung up on it. Maybe running the pump to create less steering effort would cost 0.0001 MPG and that's why we got this since they seem to do crazy things like run the alternator at a higher duty cycle on deceleration rather than constant output so as to squeeze every last mpg.
Give us a better turning radius.
The camera resolution looks like something from the 90's era Fisher-Price toy category. Doesn't have to be 4k, but at least be up to today's standards.
I think most people buy a crew cab to be able to carry passengers back there. Those rear seats need a few more degrees of recline to be even close to comfortable for more than a short hop. Maybe someone in the aftermarket will come up with some spacers to fix that.
No rear window defogger? I've had several vehicles through the decades, this is the first time since the 70's I owned a vehicle without. I'm actually surprised it's not a a requirement. We'll see how that works out this winter. Funny that one of the salesman argued with me and said it does have a rear defogger - pointing to the mirror defogger switch. It was my first time looking at a Frontier, figured the sales professional knew what he was talking about so I thought maybe Nissan figured out how to do it without heating elements in the glass?
The 'drive-ability' engine/transmission mapping right off idle. Not sure what to call it. Delay, hesitation? When you step on the gas light/moderately the engine revs, the truck moves, but it's not a proportional response, it's 'lazy' for lack of a better term. If you've ever driven a vehicle with 'snow' mode enabled where they make the transmission take off in a high gear instead of 1st to avoid wheel slip - that's what this feels like. Sure, if you are heavier on the pedal the truck shoots forward. But just giving it normal pedal doesn't respond like you'd expect. I think they can sort that out better.
Sales are up 17% this year so none of this will get addressed. They'll do something important like come up with a new graphics package, call it the Hardbody AI edition, charge $2k more and ship it
