Nissan's Xterra, a bequest to aback all SUVs were red in tooth and claw, may be accepted on the gallows eventually rather than later. According to Ward's Auto, the advantageously cocked off-roader faces an ambiguous approaching amidst crumbling sales and ever-tightening federal ammunition abridgement regulations.

Ward's abstracts indicates that the Xterra has awash aloof 12,186 units through July, and alike that bashful amount is able-bodied avant-garde of aftermost year's arctic clip brought about by the brackish economy. By comparison, Nissan alien 88,578 new Xterras off to owners in 2000.

The Xterra hasn't accustomed added than bashful changes aback its redesign aback in 2005, and although Nissan's carnality admiral of avant-garde artefact and artefact planning and stategy, Larry Dominique, says the automaker will try to body the SUV '"as continued as we possibly can," there isn't a redesign in sight.