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Before Chrysler was ever involved in alliance dealings with Fiat, the Auburn Hills-based automaker was already tied with Nissan over several platform swapping and production sharing deals.

One of these was to sell rebadged versions of the Ram pickup as a replacement for Nissan’s own Titan, but this past summer Chrysler decided to back out of the deal, making the future of the full-size Nissan pickup look bleak.

Fans of the Titan can now take a collective sigh of relief as the CEO of Nissan, Carlos Ghosn, has revealed that the pickup will survive. Ghosn went on to reveal that it could be designed and built completely in-house at Nissan...

Safety features have been boosted across the 2010 Nissan Titan range of pickups, yet prices have only been raised modestly from 2009.

That’s the most important news for 2010 on Nissan’s full-size, V-8-powered Titan. Standard safety equipment has been expanded to include side airbags, side curtain bags, stability control, and an Active Brake Limited Slip (ABLS) system now standard across the entire model line. Previously the side and side-curtain bags had been available as a $685 option.

At a substantial savings versus standalone options, a new SE Value Truck Package adds more features—including captain’s chairs, an eight-way power...

The product-sharing deal that would have brought new trucks to Nissan and new small cars to Chrysler has been terminated.

The end of the deal made in January 2008 was announced today in a brief release issued by both companies. By the terms of the deal, Chrysler was to supply Nissan with a full-sized truck based on its Ram pickup. That vehicle would have replaced Nissan's next-generation Titan, starting in 2011.

In return, Nissan was to provide Chrysler with a compact vehicle to sell in South America starting in 2009, and with a small car to sell worldwide starting next year.

The arrangement has been shelved, of course, due to the...