Showing posts with label Platinum Reserve. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Platinum Reserve. Show all posts

7.23.2018

More Than Just One Big Boat: The 2018 Nissan Armada Platinum Reserve 4WD

Front 3/4 view of 2018 Nissan Armada Platinum Reserve 4WD
The 2018 Nissan Armada Platinum Reserve 4WD.
Webster's defines "armada" as "a fleet of warships".  Nissan's largest SUV kinda comes off that way.  Describing it as a "boat" somehow feels inadequate. 

That's both bad and good.  Bad because it looks and feels like something from an earlier era of SUV, one before the double-whammy of the recession and high gas prices ten years ago prompted redesigns of full-size SUVs that emphasized (relative) lightness and efficiency.  Good, because, in this era of car-based crossovers, anyone who longs for the good old days of a truck-based full-sized rig will likely have the Armada on his or her short list.