2017 Nissan Armada Platinum 4x4 5.6L V8 Super Black In Depth Walk Around & Review

Hello ladies and gentlemen, it's Christopher here. Today we're right outside of Collins Nissan in St. Catharines, Ontario and we're going to be taking a look at the 2017 Nissan Armada Platinum. A ton of changes to this year's model, let's take a closer look. Right to the front of the Armada, you can see we've got this nice gorgeous redesigned front grille. It's going to come with the large Nissan logo there. It's also going to come with the forward sensors which are going to help with all the technology that come in this Armada like the adaptive cruise control and the predictive collision warning. It does come with the xenon headlights as well as the fog lights down below to improve your visibility. So moving on to the side of the vehicle, you can see it has nice chrome finishes all throughout. Nice chrome mirror caps as you can see and it does have the LED signal indicators right on the mirror. If you look closely, there is a camera right underneath the mirror here and that's going to give you more visibility when backing up because this one is equipped with the 360 camera to give you a bird's eye vehicle of the vehicle when you're parking. As you can see, we do have the nice black running rails which is going to make it very easy to get in and out of the car and chrome handles and a chrome finish all throughout the windows giving it a nice luxury look. Your roof rails are on the top if you need to tie anything to the roof and it just gives it a nice rugged look on the top and of course this one is the intelligent key access so you do have the push to open there and lock and unlock there. Just with the touch of a button, all you need to do is have the key in the proximity of the vehicle. On the key, it's going to come with our remote start, our lock, our unlock, our power liftgate button, and our panic button. Okay, so taking a look at the rims, it's sitting on these 20 inch machine finished rims. Gorgeous two-tone with the silver and the black and of course all our tires are filled with nitrogen here at Collins Nissan. So let's take a look under the hood. It does come with a 5 liter 5.6 liter V8 engine, a ton of power and it's going to give you a horsepower around 390 and 394 pounds feet of torque. It is all-wheel drive so it does have the four-wheel drive system with two transfer cases and it's going to come with the standard Nissan warranty. It's a three-year 60,000 comprehensive warranty and five-year 100 for the powertrain. It's also going to come with three-year roadside assistance. You're going to average around 12.6 liters for every 100 kilometers on the highway. Here of the Nissan Armada, as you can see the chrome continues throughout. Right below the Nissan symbol is this gorgeous chrome strip giving it a nice luxury look and you can see the backup camera is also below here. Nice chrome Armada. Beautiful bumper protector to help when you're sliding things in which is right on the bumper here. So the rear sensors are here. They're going to help with things like backing up, parking. They work in conjunction with the backup camera and the 360 camera and there's a lot of technology that's going to assist you to keep your family safe like the cross traffic alert and things like that. As I mentioned before the Armada can tow around 9,000 pounds. It does have a hidden hitch so I can't show you this. There is a cover bolted on right here to hide the hitch and all you have to do is undo the bolt. This one does come equipped with a power lift gate so you just need to push the button here and it's going to open up. You can set the height if you have garage door. You can see this one's really low but it can also go higher. So let's unlock the Nissan Armada and take a look at the interior. Okay so as you can see right on the door panel we do have the memory seats. Perfect if you have multiple drivers, husband and wife, things like that. Right on the door you do have your adjustable mirrors, locks and windows and as you can see this is your blind spot indicator. So this is going to light up if someone is in your blind spot there to let you know not to change lanes. Also on the door is your blind spot indicator so that's going to indicate you if someone is in your blind spot. It is a power folding mirror so you can fold the mirrors in if you do have a garage, a tight garage or you want to fold them in in a busy parking lot. If we take a look at the driver's seat you do have this nice brown accents right on it. It is a very comfortable seat you can drive around it for hours and it is an eight-way adjustable driver's seat. Both front seats are heated and air conditioned so perfect for the winter time and perfect for those hot summer days. You can see the wood trim easily hides the cup holders and my storage so if I'm not using them I can cover them up or I can open it up and I have a lot of storage there. If there's a leather wrapped steering wheel and it is heated keep your hands warm in the winter time. All our radio and bluetooth and cell phone controls right on the steering wheel here and then our cruise control is right on the wheel as well. These two buttons down here are for all the technology it does have an adaptive cruise control system where it's gonna you just set the distance that you want from the car in front of you and it will automatically adjust the cruise control to keep that distance so you don't have to worry about turning on and off your cruise control which in the long run will save you on fuel. You can also turn on and off some of the sensors like the lane departure warning and lane departure prevention with the button here. Our vehicle gauges are very vivid very large and very illuminated very easy to see. I do have my tachometer and my speedometer right in the middle there. You also have the vehicle information screen which is going to tell you like your outside temperature your kilometers to empty. It is a push button start system so you just need to have your foot on the brake and the keys in the proximity of the vehicle and you can push the button there. It does come with the rain sensing wipers and the intermittent wipers so you just need to set them to automatic and it will automatically adjust there and there is a rear wiper on the back here. So right in your center controls here as you can see you do have the nice wood trim. All our navigation controls are right at the top here so I can play around with the navigation either using the touchscreen or using the buttons here. I can check my car info. I'm not going to get into too much detail about the navigation because that is really a complete whole other video so stay tuned for that but it is voice activated or you can use the touchscreen or the buttons here. Again you can use the touchscreen for the radio if I would like or I can use the buttons down below and we do have the big four ways here. It does have the Nissan's automatic dual zone climate control so you can have both sides at different temperatures if one passenger is hot and the driver is cold you can use both settings there and then down below we do have our heated and air-conditioned seats as I mentioned our 12-volt accessory socket there and our heated steering wheel option is there. Right on the mirror it does come with Nissan's HomeLink system so I can sync up to three garage doors so I don't have to carry around that bulky remote and I also have some sunglass storage right up top. So let's take a look at that 360 camera that I mentioned. As you can see it does give you the bird's eye view of the vehicle here and now because I'm in park I can see my forward facing camera and as I turn the wheel the lines are going to adjust. There's a ton of technology that this camera allows this vehicle to have. It uses all the sensors, all the cameras to give you a ton of features. I can list them like you do have your predictive forward collision warning, your forward emergency braking, your lane departure warning, your lane departure prevention, your blind spot warning and your blind spot intervention system. There is a moving object detection when backing up and a backup collision intervention. So a lot of technology was added to this 2017. Not only will it notify you but it will also break for you if you're about to get in a collision or anything like that. So a ton of technology that this system uses and here's a view of the rear camera. As you can see it makes it very easy to park if you have a garage or a busy lot. Very easy to park in there. All the Armadas do come with the Bose upgraded sound system which sounds phenomenal especially using the Sirius XM which Nissan gives you the free trial. They added this big four-wheel drive model so this is how you can adjust your four-wheel drive mode. As you can see there is an automatic four-wheel drive where it will switch for you or you have your 4H or you can switch it into 4 low. There is also two other drive modes. There is a tow mode if you're towing and there is a snow mode which is perfect for where we're in Canada. And then I can also turn my vehicle dynamic control on and off. It does come with this nice big center console and elbow rest which is adjustable and I can open it up and see I have a ton of storage. I can turn on and off the power outlet in the back and I have my audio connections there. So another cool thing that I like about these 2017's that they didn't have in the previous model was they added the power sunroof. So it opens up with a touch of a button. A little wet today so I'm not going to leave it open for very long but if you don't like it you can cover it up. Okay now we're in the back of the Armada. As you can see I have a very comfortable seat that I'm sitting in. This specific Platinum Armada does come with the center console. A lot of people ask me if you can remove this center console. Unfortunately you can't but you can also get the front bench. So if you don't like the center console and you want three seats here you can add a front bench but the center console gives you a nice elbow rest there and a ton of storage for my cell phones, cup holders and drinks. As you can see here there's more storage. These seats are manually adjustable and they do recline quite a bit so I can just have a comfier ride and relax back here a little. So for your passengers in the back they do have the heated captain chairs to keep them warm in the winter time and they can also adjust the temperature there if they want the rear temperature to be separate from the driver. One of my favorite features about these Armadas is the Tri-Zone Entertainment System. A very unique system here. You can have two different movies going on each headrest. There's one in this headrest and one in the opposite side. So a very unique feature about the Armada is if someone wants to watch one movie and another passenger wants to watch another you can have two different videos playing and it does come with headphones or you can sync it to the radio. Whatever you feel for all your audio needs. Also a power outlet here to plug in to charge laptops or iPads. You can also connect a video game console to the Tri-Zone Entertainment System using the inputs there and the power outlet. Very easy to get in the back. I just need to flip the switch here and the seats automatically gonna pop up and I have a ton of room to access the rear seats. So now I'm in the third row of the Nissan Armada and as you can see I do have quite a bit of space back here and that's something I could do for four or five hours but I can sit comfortably back here for a very long time. And as I mentioned I can fold the seats down to just give me that extra added comfort if I want to relax. So if you fold the seats down there is quite a bit of storage in the back if you do have those large items. See there's a ton of space back here. Nice big opening to get in and out and there's a little bit of hidden storage underneath here where you can put like your first aid kits or your snow bushes. This is a very unique feature. It does come with this cover which just clips on right to the corners here and you can put it along the bumper and connect it right there and that way if you're moving or sliding big items in you're not going to scratch your bumper and then you can just tuck it away there. One of my favorite features they do come with the automatic power folding seats so you just need to touch the button here and the seats are going to fold down. So it's perfect for any configuration whether you have four people, five people, six people. You can adjust the seats very easily by using the buttons here and you can also bring them back up. So one of the cool things about this Armada is the third row does recline very far and most of our competitors and the older models the third row only stayed up about like this as you can see but if you look at the left side here it does recline very far and I can bring the right seat back. Make sure it's a comfy ride for your passengers when you do those long road trips. So thank you very much for watching. Don't forget I'm Christopher. We're taking a look at the 2017 Armada and we're right outside of Collins Nissan. If you have any questions put them in the comment section below and don't forget to hit that subscribe button.