8/6/2023 0 Comments Nissan passenger van off roadLooks aside, there’s a practical benefit to having a hood: the engine isn’t in the foot-well. Am I crazy? Perhaps, I like the way the Ford Flex looks too. It looks different from the current crop of domestic people movers, I like chrome bling and I have a soft spot for a long hood. The NV looks more like someone grafted a bread van box to a Nissan Titan, which in many ways is exactly what Nissan did. (This is why minor repairs on a GM van tend to start with “ first, drop the engine”). This might sound totally banal at first glance, but anyone who has worked on a GM van knows the engine isn’t under the hood it’s mostly under the dash with a bit inside the cabin. The dominant feature on the NV is certainly the front end which features an honest-to-goodness hood. Public opinion on the NV’s styling ranged from “I love the bold grille” to “dear God, put my eyes out.” Let us know what you think in the comment section. I did not, I repeat, did not grovel and beg to Nissan’s top brass to get my hands on a full-size van. Me: (after a long pause) oh yea? What about the NV Passenger van? How about that!? Eh? Why haven’t I seen one before? Hiding something? My Nissan minder whipped out his phone, made a call and a ginormous shiny black box appeared a week later. PR person: we go the extra mile to make sure the press has access to everything we make, we don’t hide anything. Every now and then a journalist sticks his foot in his mouth, and so it was with me and a Nissan PR person.
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