2018 Nissan Frontier SV Crew Cab 4x4 In Depth Walk Around and Review

Hello ladies and gentlemen and welcome to another episode of Cars Unlocked. My name is Christopher. Today we are going to be checking out the 2018 Nissan Frontier SV Crew Cab. So under the hood of the Nissan Frontier, this one is the 4.0L V6 engine. It's going to pump out about 261 horsepower at 281 pounds feet of torque. This specific one is the 4x4 with the 5-speed automatic transmission. Great for your city driving and great for those jobs where you need the 4x4 if you're towing, doing your boat cottage thing. This vehicle is going to be great on fuel and it's going to help you do the jobs you need to do. On the front of the Frontier, when you go up to this SV package, you do get the matching body colored front bumper as you can see here. Nissan's signature V-Motion grille is right below the Nissan emblem. Another addition of the SV, you do get this front tow hook. Moving on to the rear of the Nissan Frontier, you can see we do have our SV and our 4x4 badging. This one comes with the chrome rear bumper on these SV packages and you also get the sonar system on the back which is going to help when parking. It does have the illuminated license plate and it does make for a little easier step when you're going into the back of the vehicle. Also to help with parking is the backup camera which is right under our liftgate handle here which I can open up. On the bed of the Frontier, you can see we do have this nice Nissan utility track where I can put my tie downs in here. Perfect for locking any load down or securing any load. It comes with four, I only brought out one and you do have the bottom rails too, you can place the tie downs on. Comes with the factory non-slip spray-on bed liner. Helps you get in and out and stops your stuff from sliding around. These Frontiers can tow up to 6,200 pounds and it does have a payload of about 1,300 pounds. So checking out the key, it is just a basic Frontier truck key. No intelligent keys with this Frontier. You just get the fob and the key, two separate pieces. You get the lock, the unlock and the panic button. So nothing too fancy about the key but let's unlock it and take a look at the inside. So nice gray interior when we jump inside here. I hop right into this gray cloth seat and the front two seats are heated as well. So pretty basic wheel, Bluetooth for your phone, cruise control. We do have our radio and volume controls as well. No automatic headlights, which is kind of a bummer in the Frontier. I wish I had automatic headlights but you have to turn those on and off. And then to the left we have our mirror adjustments, our hill descent control and our cargo lamp. The infotainment system is pretty basic in this Frontier. You don't get navigation until you add it in this SV package and it's called an SV premium package. But this one comes with Nissan standard 5-inch display, similar to what's in our Nissan Sentras, our Versa Notes and our base model Rogues. You have your AM FM, your Sirius satellite, your Bluetooth audio streaming and your CD player as well. But pretty basic screen there, nothing too fancy about it. Below that is the dual temperature control. That's a feature that you get when you go up to this SV package. So you can adjust the climate on each side. I can have one side hot and one side cold. And once I push this auto mode, it's going to turn everything on to get to these temperatures, just like the thermostat in your house. Below the infotainment system is our four wheel drive controls here. So I can take it from the two wheel drive to the four high and then into the four low. They advertise that you can switch it on the fly, but I recommend shifting into neutral before you switch it over. Our heated seats are below here. So here's our heated seats, one for the left side and one for the right side. And then we have our traction control and our rear sonar as well. So here are your gauges here. One thing that I like is it does have a little picture of your axles there and will show you if you're in front wheel drive or four by four mode. It'll just help make that switch easier, but very basic gauges there for your tachometer and your speedometer. So very basic shifter knob as well. I can flip it to the left here to go into my first gear, second gear and third gear, but nothing really has changed with the Frontiers over time. It's very, very similar to previous models. They haven't redesigned the car in years like they have with their other vehicles. There's also a USB and auxiliary as well as our 12 volt accessory there as well to charge your phone and play music. And that is right next to the glove box, which opens up here. Not too big. Of course, we got our wheel locks in there as well, but there is two, one little small one and one large one there. So the backup camera comes on automatically when you put it in reverse. And then you do have the guidance lines, which will help you gauge your distance. Perfect if you're backing up to a trailer or going into a boat ramp. So this one being the crew cab, you do get the extra seating in the back. As you can see, there isn't a huge amount of room here, but you do have those extra three seats if necessary. You can fold the seats down as well. If you want to put a little more stuff behind here, you can anchor car seats in the back as well behind the seat. And if you pop the seat forward, you do have a little bit of storage under here for your tools. And you can have the back area for extra storage. So there's not too much room for a big guy like me. I wouldn't want to sit in here for a long drive, but you do have that option of adding the seats. You have two cup holders here for your passengers. One thing that I do not like about the Frontier is it is a manual rear sliding glass window. So this window you have to manually open. There's no power like in some of the higher end trucks, which just becomes a pain in the ass. So thank you very much for watching another video. Don't forget today we checked out the 2018 Nissan Frontier SV Crew Cab. Check out my other videos of the Frontier. Let me know what you think. If you have any questions about these vehicles, do not hesitate to ask me in the conversation below. Let me know how the Frontier compares to the truck that you have and your thoughts about it.