SEATTLE — The holiday season is behind us, and it's a great opportunity to assess the family SUV.
The holidays demand utility to take on relatives, grocery runs and foul weather. I scored a 2022 Nissan Pathfinder for a Payne family get-together in America's rain capital. Pathfinder is one of the latest in a series of recent Nissan value hits that include the compact Sentra sedan and Rogue SUV. I first met Pathfinder last summer in Michigan, where it came with 6'10" product planner Andrew Molnar showing off its third row.
That's right. Six foot 10. My 6'5" frame fit easily back there as well, giving me confidence that Pathfinder would be up to the job of ferrying three six-foot-plus Payne men and their wives around Seattle's slippery streets for a packed weekend of outings. Our active family doesn't lay around, and my Seattle-based older son had prepared a full agenda.
