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Ford Transit and RAM Promaster are doing well in my market, multiple reasons why. Just doing the best I can with what I have for product and what I have for incentives. Nissan Passenger vans are selling well though.

radin2son - oh I'm still here slugging away. Nissan isn't really doing much with the vans up this way (production allocation for canada is very very low) so I've been more involved in other fleet products over the past year or so.

What's the brand name on the lift?

I just drove an XD for about 100km, quite a nice engine forthcoming. Would be a good addition to the NV to be sure!

Rep just emailed back "News to me but thanks for sending it in…!"

I sent a copy over to him so we'll see what he says.

Titan XD always was scheduled for December release....No pricing. No order guide, no dealer training as of yet. A slow launch to be sure. I'll be picking up a Titan XD prototype tomorrow to show some fleet customers. Quite excited for that. I drove a pre-production prototype around the streets of Edmonton once before (a yellow SS camero about 7 months before launch) and it was a fun experience. Had people chasing me around waving me to pull over. I don't think putting a diesel in a cargo van would be a thunder stealer. More like the truck will landand Nissan will be advertising "hey here's a new spiffy pickup truck" and then as an afterthought "oh, btw we put the same engine in the vans". But knowing Nissan it would take them 6 months after release of the truck to get it done anyways so very little danger of concurrent new engines. (just speculation though).

Well here's a little interesting story. They are tinkering with the diesel in the NV. http://www.tfltruck.com/2015/08/going-to-airport-in-nissan-nv-prototype-with-the-5-0l-v8-cummins-first-impression/

I've sold a couple as working vehicles. We have a great many oilfield locations that are 4x4 only as part of the requirements to go on site. To date, not a problem with the three of them, to date not a single bit of negative feedback on all three of them. It is a truly great conversion done by Quigley.

Chris when have you heard production starting for 2016's? We heard it was starting in October this year instead of the usual January. Was told that 2015 ordering is done by our NV corporate type. Cdn versus US prod? No word on any changes up here in Canuckistan too. Betting it'll be almost identical versus years past. Doubtful that diesel will flow over to NV. The XD is going to attract a ton of attention so doubtful anything released near it will garner much attention. NV or otherwise.

I've not been to wateron lakes since I was a teenager. Wonderful spot as I recall. Don't know enough to say about road closures or not it's a solid 6+ hours from where I live. The Banff/Jasper National park is spectacular if you've never been. I'm not much of a camper I have to say so I don't visit places like that all that often.

No clue. I was wondering about a plasti-dip for cosmetic reasons (like a Ford Flex) but haven't worked up the courage to do that to one on the lot yet.

Looks good.

Have not done the factory seats. For liability reasons I won't have anything to do with it. I do refer customers to a local upfitter that will do it (apparently complete with engineer sign off "pull test"). They upfitter gets their seats from http://freedmanseating.com/

No clue. I'll called the customer but the number I have on file says out of service. Sorry. I'd email the pic to a graphics shop or two and see what they say.I vaguely recall him saying he ordered out of the US....just fiddling with google maybe some sort of RV graphics package? check out: http://graphicsrv.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=84

Second to what Chris said. Demand is very high and production allocation (still, for some reason) is extremely low. Hopefully this will improve in the future but best not to count on it. It's even worse in Canada as being the little brother to the USA we get a very small allocation of them so it's a battle to find them.

For van market sales http://www.goodcarbadcar.net/2015/06/usa-commercial-van-sales-figures-may-2015-ytd.html For Nissan specific: http://nissannews.com/en-US/nissan/usa/channels/U-S-Sales-Reports/releases/nissan-group-reports-may-2015-u-s-sales

Here's what one of my customers did. He ordered the silver edition badge off the previous generation pathfinder and put it on there. Bit of a character this fellow.

Just looked back over my sales info, indeed the passenger does (at least the 2015 model year) come with 70's. I won a few bids for cargo vans that required swapping over the OEM tire to something different so we have quite a few sets of 75's which we've been putting on our trade ins/buy ins irrespective of 1500/2500/3500. If we ever got a used passenger van and it needed tires I doubt we'd hesitate in the slightest to put on the 75's.

3500 version comes with 75's. 2500 and 1500 comes with 70's.

I saw this article once. Propane though. http://www.lpgasmagazine.com/paraco-gas-putting-fleet-customers-in-propane-fueled-vehicle/

Thanks for that Jon. I had missed that post my apologies for covering the same ground. Interesting to hear your workaround.

I stand corrected. Works out just fine to ship to us here in canada. good stuff. CAn't wait