Frontier

Make
Nissan
Segment
Sports Car

Just last year, the newly redesigned Nissan Frontier, the brand's Tacoma competitor, and midsized truck offering debuted. Now, Nissan has updated pricing with some slight changes for the lineup this time around. This is a predictably mild update. After all, Nissan just spent a truckload of money bringing the Frontier up to snuff.

Despite that, there are some changes in store for the brand's second-generation truck. Nissan has set pricing for the basest of base Frontiers at $29,190, a good bit higher than the Taco's $27,150 MSRP. However, Nissan also includes some nice standard features to help make the Frontier worth the extra scratch.

Let's get the trim structures out of the way now. Nissan offers both 4x4 and 4x2 configurations for every Frontier model. Buyers will also have their choice of King Cab, Crew Cab, S, SV, Pro-X, and Pro-4X configurations. If that sounds like a lot, that's because it is. In total, that's a massive 12 available trim levels ranging from the above $29K MSRP all the way to $38,720.

We'll let you waste time on Nissan's configurator figuring out which trim is the sweet spot. For now, we'll focus on 2023 MY changes. As we said, there's really not a lot of them.

Nissan now offers a Midnight Edition package for the SV Crew Cab. The truck, pictured above, gets 17-inch black wheels, black mirrors, as well as black bumpers, badging, and interior accents. Nissan also adds LEDs to any exterior lighting you'll find on the truck.

Additionally, the 2023 SV Crew Cab Long Wheelbase model now gets the SV Convenience Package as standard, helping to make up some of that extra cost over a Taco. That means a heated wheel, heated seats, spray-in bed liner, Utili-track System with adjustable tie-downs, under-rail bed lighting, and other changes.

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Nissan's off-road focused Pro-X and Pro-4X now get wireless Apple CarPlay for 2023, and the Pro Premium package now has Lava Red stitching instead of black stitching. A note on bed sizes: The Frontier King Cab has a 6-foot bed, while the Frontier Crew Cab S and Pro models have a 5-foot bed. The Crew Cab SV is still offered with your pick of the two.

We've spent some time in the Frontier and found both things to love and hate about the Nissan. It packs solid power, and a good transmission, and the Pro trims really are built to go anywhere. However, the truck still feels old, and leaves something to be desired in that department.