That's pretty much exactly what I expected. The numbers are funky but when you get it out in the real world, the Titan XD is going to smoke the other half tons when it comes to towing/hauling. The problem Nissan has is going to be convincing people not to just step all the way up to a standard heavy duty truck for the same price.
We'll start out positive and say that when carrying a heavy load, the Nissan crushed its competition. While the F-150 and Ram had difficulty running our drive routes and other tests in a confident, controlled manner with 1,750 pounds in the bed, the Nissan felt composed and stable. Several of our drivers noted that if they hadn't seen the factory numbers, they'd guess the XD could carry another 1,000 pounds without a problem.