Went off roading in the rain took some shots its november ...put some mud on my Pathy ..Testing out the Nissan Pathfinder on its off-road Mika MCR MCR MCR MCR MCR capabilities....4X4 Off-road off road Nissan Mud Truck It used to be that Jeep was to sport/utility vehicles what Kleenex was to tissue. That was when Jeep meant roughing it on four wheels and Kleenex meant help for a runny nose. But that all started to change back in the late 1980s -- especially when it came to the four-door kind of sport-ute. By then, this once non-existent niche was starting to get crowded with Jeep's Cherokee and Waggoneer, Toyota's 4Runner and LandCruiser, Isuzu's Trooper II, General Motors' Blazer and Jimmy, Ford's Explorer, Suzuki's Sidekick (four-door version) and Nissan's Pathfinder. You might say the 1990 four-door Pathfinder proved to be a blend of ideas from East and West. On the West's side of the ledger: Nissan Design International sculpted the original two-door (1987) Pathfinder in San Diego, California. From the East: the Nissan Technical Centre in Japan added two doors with only the slightest alteration to the Pathfinder's looks for 1990. Where the two-door Pathfinder was distinguished by triangular side windows, the four-door's "signature" in '90 was in rear-door handles integrated into the C-pillar and further disguised by black trim paint. Most people had to do double-take to pick out the second set of doors. Rightly so, too, because those rear doors were just about the only ...
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