i'm mark williams for pickup trucks dot com and we're here with the 2014
nissan frontier pro-4x off road package and where better to take this vehicle
than an off-road motorsports park
let's take a look and see what this package has to offer pro-4x is Nissan's
most capable off-road package and here's what it includes got extra heavy-duty
skid plates under the engine and the transfer case you've got bigger wheels
and tires more aggressive treads rugged trails
you've got high performance bilstein shocks specifically designed for
off-road and you've got a rear locking differential that will help you out of
just about every single difficult off-road situation
frontiers come with a choice of two engines
there is a 2.5 litre straight four cylinder engine
very good engine but you have to be very careful about what kind of driving and
what kind of expectations you have for your truck
this midsize frontier is relatively heavy the optional engine which comes
standard in the pro-4x package is the four leader dual overhead cam v6 261
horsepower 281 foot-pounds of torque
this is one of our favorite v6 engines and fuel economy is not great but
sufficient for the segment 16 miles to the gallon in the city
22 miles to the gallon on highway for a combined of 19 miles to the gallon
one of the things we like about the nissan frontier as they offer a ton of
options especially back here in the bed area
there's a roof rack available that can hold almost 200 pounds
they were one of the first vehicles in the segment actually in the industry to
offer a spray in bedliner the utility track system is just about the best for
midsize or half-ton pickup trucks and they even offer a bed extender if you're
going to go out with your ATVs and motorcycles the frontiers pro-4x package
does offer unique seat materials on the interior pro-4x stitching on both of the
front seats
does offer a rear locking differential that you can manually operate from the
driver's seat and white face gauges
in the gauge cluster but let's take a look and see how this does actually when
it gets on the dirt
well if you're interested in any of the off-road packages we highly recommend if
at all possible do some kind of test drive on rough road if you can get to a
Motorsports Park an off road park
absolutely tons of fun but will tell you a lot about what the suspension can do
how well that chassis is going to hold up to any punishment and how well the
attraction of the truck itself is going to be able to grab a hold or is it going
to slide through a whole bunch of dirt or rough debris that you happen to be
driving through now we're not driving really hard here but this is an F alpha
platform so that's essentially the same platform that's used on the full-size
tighten as well as the full-size SUVs that they have and the big heavy-duty NV
vans that they use and they and they equip those in both halftime
three-quarter-ton and one-ton configuration so this is bone structure
this ladder frame on this particular truck is plenty strong enough and that's
exactly what we're seeing here
it's a lot of fun we can feel the suspension absorbing a lot of that a lot
of the stuff going on
might have got a little bit of air that's that's probably fine
bilstein shocks are going to absorb a lot of the the bumps and bruises along
the way here this is not something that we would do with a stock a stock pickup
truck
certainly not a mid-sized probably not even a full-size pickup truck but this
this pro-4x pack it seems to be handling everything we're throwing at it
although frontier pricing starts just under twenty thousand dollars depending
on trim package and option
the price can rise very quickly so be careful this pro-4x test unit that we
have is thirty six thousand dollars for all the details go to pick up trucks .
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