Does anyone know how Nissan came up with calling our truck...Titan?

[Jollysammy]

Was it early in the design process? It definitely sounds more macho than Tundra...

anyone know who came up with the idea?

[SpeedFreak]

I cannot answer your question, but thought you might be interested in a few odd bits of trivia.

Conceived, developed, styled and engineered primarily in North America, Titan is being assembled at Nissan's new $1.43 billion manufacturing facility in Canton, Mississippi.

The very first consumer drove his 2004 Nissan Titan off a dealer's lot in December 2003. The first Titan, sold by Mossy Nissan Kearny Mesa in San Diego, was purchased by Juan Perez, a full-size truck owner for many years. Perez traded in a 2003 Ford F-150 for his new Nissan Titan.

[daveinfla]

I think they went with Titan because Trojan was taken

[Bayou Titan]

They probably wanted an astronomical sounding name. Saturn, Mercury, Comet, and Galaxie were aready taken and Uranus probably didn't sound so good.

[AgTitan06]

I think they have known it was going to be called the Titan for a long time. Remember, when the concept truck was called the Alpha-T. I'm sure the T was standing for Titan.

[KTMKEV]

This is from Merriam-Webster. http://www.m-w.com/

Pronunciation: 'tI-t&n
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek
1 capitalized : any of a family of giants born of Uranus and Gaea and ruling the earth until overthrown by the Olympian gods
2 : one that is gigantic in size or power : one that stands out for greatness of achievement

Kevin

[wmtom]

2 : one that is gigantic in size or power : one that stands out for greatness of achievement




i think that just about sums it up fer me

[baseballfanz]

In Greek mythology, Titans were the giants. They were consider the bad guys, I like that. It could also be the guy in charge is a Tennesse Titan fan.

[Elbo]

Glad they didn't go with the Nissan A thing..

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[Geezus_Aach]

Originally Posted by KTMKEV

...and ruling the earth until overthrown by the Olympian gods...

guess we have to look out for Olympian gods?? ? lol! my guess is the marketing dept. at nissan came up with the name to stress the gigantic size of the truck

off topic-- a little while ago, toyota was going to release their tacoma street truck under the name "Tsunami" but quickly cancelled that after what happened in the so pacific

[bestatchess]

There was previously a huge truck from Terex (GMC) also called Titan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terex_Corporation

http://www.sparwood.bc.ca/titaninf.htm

[blue73thing]

My three and 1/2 year old calls it my "Tighten UP" or maybe TitanUp. At any rate, daddy drives a Titan UP truck. I looked into the vanity plate in NC, but somebody already has TitanUp, but not t!tanup. I might have to get that.

Perhaps the name came from the anticipation of the inevitable comparison of the New Nissan truck to the venerable "big 3" in the full-size pickup market. There could be no doubt that some pathetic word-smith would choose the title of his review as "Clash of the Titans." Harkening back to the Mythological meaning of the giants that fought the Gods living on Olympus, I'm sure the size issue was important for the marketing campaign.

Dave

[Seerex]

On the history channel I believe there was a whole show dedicated to the building of the titan , I need to set the dvr i think , it was called American Cars , it showed how nissan designed the titan came up with ideals and how GM and Ford reacted to it , the name if I recall corrected was chosen because it referance to sheer size so that it wasn't confused with a midsize truck or a compact truck , also a funny tidbit was that the head designer happens to be a woman, but it showed prototypes of beds and info gathering meetings with truck owners in California . Guess I need to find and burn it .

[Geezus_Aach]

Originally Posted by Seerex

... also a funny tidbit was that the head designer happens to be a woman....

yup. i think her name is Diane. and i also heard she was fired by ford, her previous employer. ford said no woman can design a truck. hence the reason for big knobs and switches...you know how ladies hate to break their nails

[TYTAIN]

Ford had already used the Fiesta name so they drew straws at the local bar after work and low and behold it became the Titan.