Hi Binoy, Know a little bit regarding this car. This was a part of slew of new car launches that Nissan made from its new Canton, Missisipi plant. This vehicle was based on the Nissan Titan full sized truck; which was Nissan's first attempt at that segment. Nissan hurried through the design phase to launch all of the new products in their bid to regain market share.
As you rightly pointed out, the armada was supposed to compete with the Escalades and the lincoln navigators of the world. However some of the following reasons caused its failure:
Odd side view styling.
Low fuel economy
lots of quality issues at launch that were subsequently addressed
design issues due to size of the body (too large)
Even though it has independent rear, such vehciles are basically trucks and so will always suffer in the Ride and handling aspects.
Interiors were well done, however you can spot commonization with other nissans all over.
Basically could not take much sales from the escalade or the Lexus trucks which have great appeal. The escalade for a great powertrain and the lexus for overall value, in spite of lexus having leaf springs and the escalade having a multi link rear axle.
Regards,
kk
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