When I originally saw the all-new Nissan NVs parked on the pristine showroom floor of a sprawling convention center at the NTEA Work Truck Show in 2010, it was love at first sight. Nissan's first commercial offering for the U.S. wore the modern, squared-off, and clean-lined look of its cousins in the utility and truck lineups: a chrome-framed, triple-section grille, wraparound headlamps, and a windshield as wide as Tom Cruise's Wayfarers in Risky Business. Big enough to accommodate painter's ladders or a craftsman's tool chests, it was also big enough to fit up to a dozen people. Nissan was driving into new territory in the American market.
Our first date was in Miami almost year later. There, I was able to drive four different versions of this Japanese automaker's 2012 NV on urban and suburban routes, in this trendy region of the southeastern seaboard. Our group of automotive evaluators ferried goods and gear to help with a Habitat for Humanity project, which gave us the opportunity to appreciate the utility of the regular and high-roof vans, as they were loaded with a variety of materials, and also to motor along bustling freeways bearing a heavy payload to assess handling and performance, with the more-fuel-sipping V-6 and the top-end, higher-powered V-8s.
source:.trucktrend.com
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