With its refinement-based revamp for 2008, the Nissan Armada provides enough features and amenities for a sybarite, flexible capability for cargo and passengers, and all the mechanical stoutness of a full-size truck without the rough ride and racket, wrapped up in a burly yet polished package in which you won't see yourself coming and going or mistaken for someone else at every intersection.

NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent G.R. Whale drove the 2008 Armada in Minneapolis before filing this report.