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Million-Mile Nissan Frontier Traded In For Nearly Identical Truck 13 Years Later
Million-Mile Nissan Frontier Traded In For Nearly Identical Truck 13 Years Later-April 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:06

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Earlier this year, Nissan celebrated Brian Murphy, one of its busiest customers who managed to log over one million miles on his manual 2007 Nissan Frontier. Now the company has offered him a trade: He gets a if he trades in his old one so the automaker can memorialize it. What’s funny is the two trucks, all those years between them, are almost the same.

Nissan invited Murphy to this year’s Chicago Auto Show, one of the last shows before the Covid-19 outbreak. The automaker wanted to recognize Murphy for his dedication to his truck and highlight him as proof of Nissan reliability, as Murphy has driven his manual Frontier as a Chicago delivery driver every day for the last 13 years.

Now, Nissan’s offered Murphy a trade. They want to memorialize his truck at its birthplace for its achievement, but they don’t want to leave him in the lurch so they’re giving him a brand new 2020 Nissan Frontier.

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Of course, Murphy’s truck did get some regular maintenance, at least as reported by Murphy in :

According to Murphy – an independent delivery driver who regularly spends 13 hours a day on the road – the original clutch on his Frontier King Cab lasted 801,000 miles, the timing chain was replaced as preventative at 700,000 miles, and the radiator and alternator lasted about 450,000 miles each. Even the driver’s seat lasted a half-million miles before being replaced.

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His old truck will go back to its plant of origin, the Nissan Smyrna Vehicle Assembly Plant in Smyrna, Tennessee. His new Frontier, however, was assembled at Nissan Canton Vehicle Assembly Plant in Canton, Mississippi.

The 62-year-old Murphy was reportedly relieved to drop the manual for the 2020 Frontier’s new nine-speed automatic. You’d think it’d make the second million that much easier.

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His new 2020 model looks just about identical to his old one, as the model has barely undergone any changes for the last 13 years. Nissan did update the Frontier with a new 310 horsepower 3.8-liter V6 with 268 lb-ft of torque . It’s basically the next-generation’s powertrain in the old truck.

But hey, if we could all return our favorite vehicles we liked for 13 years and a million miles and get a shiny new version of basically the same thing, I think we’d all take that deal.

Nissan is officially promising that the 2020 Frontier will be “the last of” the current generation…

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