What does the world need now? At this moment, I sincerely doubt the answer lies with more pickup trucks, but here's Suzuki's offering - which is little more than a warmed-over Nissan Frontier.
That isn't, mind you, a bad thing. Using a frame derived from Nissan's full-size Titan pickup, the Frontier is a solid, rugged, and capable pickup - so too, then, is the Equator. Apart from the front sheetmetal (which curiously resembles that of a Toyota Tacoma), the Equator is all-Frontier from the A-pillar on back. The same goes for the interior, which - aside from Suzuki-embroidered floor mats and a chrome 'S' on the grille, is just as you'd find it on the Frontier.
I'm not normally a pickup person, but over the six days I drove the Equator, I found myself falling for the truck. It was plenty practical for both cargo (I was an inch shy of fitting a double mattress in the bed) and passengers (four adults rode along to help move said mattress), and the powertrain - a 4.0-liter version of Nissan's exemplary VQ engine mated to a five-speed automatic - propelled the truck along without breaking a sweat.... Read full article