[Administrator]

Nissan Motor Company has just announced that a shipment of 30 D22 pickups have arrived in Haiti, as part of an initiative instigated with the United Nations World Food Program and William J. Clinton Foundation, formed by the 42nd President of United States. The D22s, assembled at Nissan's facility in Cuernavaca, Mexico, are related to the 1998-04 Frontier sold in the U.S. and Canada. The trucks will be used to haul food, aid and supplies in the burgeoning effort to rebuild the shattered country. The donation of the trucks, in response to a request from former President Bill Clinton, is a further expansion of existing Nissan relief efforts in Haiti.

"I'm pleased Nissan has answered our call for trucks to aid our recovery efforts in Haiti," said President Clinton. "This generous donation will be critical in ongoing efforts to mobilize food and other needed supplies, and I'm thankful for Nissan's leadership in demonstrating how the private sector can help the people of Haiti build back better."

Carlos Ghosn, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nissan Motor Company Limited, added. "When the Clinton Foundation contacted us, there was no question we'd help. Everyone at Nissan was eager to take action, and I know that our employees at Cuernavaca, Mexico, are especially proud that the trucks they have built in the Americas region are directly involved in helping the people of Haiti to rebuild their lives and their country."

The trucks are each marked on each door with a special message of hope from Nissan Mexicana employees, "Nissan: Dans les rues d'Haiti pour vous aider!" Translated from the Haitian French dialect, it says, "Nissan: On the roads of Haiti to help you!"

More: Nissan Pickups Arrive in Haiti to Aid Relief Effort on AutoGuide.com

 

[blackfronty]

These trucks are total work horses, its wonderful that NISSAN did this, for sure the trucks will be there working for a very long time. It looks like they are the 4x4 diesel version.
Congratulations to Nissan and Haiti.

 

[frontyfan]

F haiti.

 

[VoodooSaint]

F haiti.

That ain't neighborly

 

[NismoFrontier08]

F haiti.

lol. while i wont go this far to say f anyone elses country i will say it does kinda piss me off when we are sending help everywhere (be it the government or salvation army and other volunteer type organizations) how about we help out the country we live in first then we can go help out the others. not sayin we shouldnt help out but i'm saying we got people starving here, we got people without homes or medical. i'm all for helping out other people, i get a kick out of helping out when i can. key phrase though WHEN I CAN!!

 

[Zedbra]

^ here we go again. a private company donates to a thrid world country, and this board errupts with blind nationalism about USA for USA.

good on nissan

 

[NismoFrontier08]

^ here we go again. a private company donates to a thrid world country, and this board errupts with blind nationalism about USA for USA.

good on nissan

i didnt day they dont deserve the help or that we shouldnt help all together. I'm saying we got people struggling on a daily basis here too. I am greatful that I have family to help me out but I'd like to think that my friends and families tax dollars will go to helping out our own country when needed before others. like i said I'm all for helping others out. I'm glad Nissan did this because I have always believed anything helps.

 

[frontyfan]

I spent 3 months in Haiti starting two days after the earthquake on 12 January 2010. After 3 months, I will say, out of ALL of the Third-World countries I have been to, that is the worst one yet. Those are by far the dumbest people I have EVER encountered.

A man would receive food to feed his family for 7 days, he would keep a day's worth and sell the rest. There are banana trees, live stock, coconuts, other fruits and sugar cane EVERYWHERE and they would claim they are starving. They would build cinder block structures without reinforcing it, and then use concrete for the roofs (no wonder they fell in the quake). Others who were slightly more intelligent would use cinder blocks for walls and tin for roofing material (these were the ones that did not fall), then refuse to live in the damn things so that USAID or a myriad of other organizations would provide them with tents.

If you walked through the market area in Port Au Prince (the capitol), you would see fresh food on top of the rotting food. The markets never get cleaned of the rotting food, and I would rather spend my time at a dairy farm then have to ever walk through that area again.

At the beginning, we (the US) gave 100 million dollars to the Haitian "government," guess how much the people saw.

Local law enforcement is non existant. They are there, but are the laziest people I have ever seen. Now, this isn't exactly their fault. Their government doesn't supply them with what they need. I met countless officers who were issued a six-shooter 10 or 20 years ago. When they received their pistol, they were also issued six (yes 6) bullets. Most have lost a few by the time I spoke with them. The police are terrified of the gangs, mainly because the gangs out number them in man power AND fire power.

I personally watched local "authorities" at a food distribution sight treat the locals like animals. There was about a thousand people there as the police arrived with rice bags. The police then drove out of the compound with all of the rice forcing the locals to chase them down the road. People were trampled, some held on to the police trucks only to be dragged down the road, all the while, the officers were smiling and laughing. It wasn't over yet. The police made two more passes through the crowd, driving very slowly until people in the crowd would start to cling to their trucks, then the police would speed off again.

I have MANY more stories I can share about that place. I have witnessed these things first hand, and have drawn my own conclusions.



Oh, and don't even get me started on "voodoo"

So, as I said...F Haiti.

 

[blackfronty]

Ok, so probably haiti didn't deserve to have those NP300 nissan Pick ups shiped all the way from Mexico, but anyway, do you think that these tipes of trucks will be at some time be made in the us too? The 4x4 diesel crewcab versions are about 25000 dlls (278,000 pesos) and the singlecab 4x4 diesel version is about 20000 dlls. Not that they are a competition to the V6 frontiers that are presently being made in the US, and being imported to Mexico, but still nice trucks, these NP300 pick ups are sometimes called frontiers, depending on if they have certain fatures and the country their beeing sold in. Nissan in Mexico, just released this year the frontier V4 SE and LE 2WD crewcabs, made also in Cuernavaca, which has more or less the same features as the 2nd. generation frontiers also sold in the US. By the way I had a crewcab of these and wasn't the frontier version, more like a NP300 hardbody D22 V4 2WD pick up truck. Not very confortable or secure for family, long trips or offroad, but very good on gas, great for houling all kinds of stuff, and specialy nice in the 4x4 diesel version which where the ones sent to haiti.
best regards,
Blackfronty.