As others have said, it’s an insane amount for a car of this age and mileage...unless you are shopping 80 series. I paid 5600 for my locked 220k mile example before the market for these started going nuts for the same thing now I would easily pay 9+. Here is the logic - They are like a good house in a neat location…

Solid front axles, way more capable off road, electronically simpler, rebuildable subsystems....and designed, by Toyota, from the ground up to last forever.

This is actually fairly priced for the market, so I gave it a NP.

That said I’d rather have this instead of a 10 year old tacoma with 200k

Again, this one is close to my folks in the DC area. I even used to live in Alexandria. That doesn’t really move the needle, but I could take my mom for a spin and show her how much she’s missing.

As a longtime advocate of condition over miles, this is an opportunity to put my vote where my mouth is.

I suspect the addition of direct injection makes up for those 200 cc in torque production for Nissan. Toyota went down 500 CC’s which is a lot harder to make up for. It’s only down in torque a few lbs ft compared to the 4.0 but it’s higher in the rev range and there is less of it generally everywhere.

There is still a lot of hold hardware. Aerodynamics are old, axles and t case is old. Etc

+1 solely due to respect for the xterra. Those are pretty excellent vehicles and will go for ages. 

I have a xterra pro-4x and it’s gas mileage (or lack thereof) is easily the crappiest thing about it. Otherwise, it’s a great vehicle for what I use it for. I'm surprised the new engine isn't a significant amount better, especially when factoring in the hefty bump in price. 

Old body, new engine. Good luck finding drivetrain parts in the future for the one year only combo. 

My guess is that story was an A/B test they knew wasn’t going to be favorably received but they needed the data to support it. Data that ought to be painfully clear already.

I will be interesting to see if it will actually compete on fuel economy numbers. The old 4.0 was sooo far behind even the Tacoma 4.0 with similar 5 speeds when it came to real world numbers. Still the new engine sounds stout and im glad they didn’t pull a toyota and completely gut the engine of torque in the name of…

Looked at the 1st photo. TL;DR. I’m not sure the word NEW means what Nissan thinks it does.

This. I didn’t even bother with it, once I saw it was one of those bullshit slideshows I just closed the tab.

Got a question, and would appreciate an honest response.

For the budget you could easily find a low mile 100, hell you can find relatively low mile 200's for that price

Slideshow is garbage. If this is permanent, it will be the death of this site.

This slideshow format is garbage. I’ve stuck with Jalopnik for a long time, and Tom, David, and Torch are primary reasons why.

But making articles into slideshows to generate more ad views is going to be a REAL quick way to kill a lot more ad views, myself included.

I hope the Herb up top hears this, but probably not.…

What is this listicle BS?