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[wuvvum]

2-litre or 3-litre?  I've had both (in pre-facelfit form) - the latter GLF, the former, er, don't.

[HMC]

I have word the barge has been driven away. Hopefully not too rough an area, I did not issue Rob with a stab vest.

Hes just sent me a photo of a derelict Datsun coupe (not my purchase)

[hairnet]

maxima?

does @STUNO know its gone from outside his house

 

[Schaefft]

This better by the 4DSC! What happened to @Jim Bell's?

[RobT]

Belated pez shot back home.  Just wanted to get out of Ilford tbh.  Also needed a piss, but good luck finding any public toilets there.

Drives really well, nice and wafty.  Probably not quick but I'll find out tomorrow on the run down to Devon.  Was perfectly adequate bimbling around London.

[RobT]

Best bit.  Cloth.

 

[Schaefft]

Not the Maxima I had in mind but still interesting purchase. 2.0 or 3.0 V6?

[HMC]

Cheers Rob for the first stage of the collection!

This facelift was rebadged “maxima qx” perhaps as a way of encouraging sales ? @Spottedlaurel is our resident knowledgable person on this

[HMC]

40 minutes ago, Schaefft said:

Not the Maxima I had in mind but still interesting purchase. 2.0 or 3.0 V6?

It’s a 2.0 v6. Smooth but slow. Think Roger Moore in A View to a kill.

[Brodders]

Didn't even know they were bothering to sell these in the UK as late as 2002, but glad someone took the plunge so we could admire it 20 years down the line.

Well done, looks like a great purchase.

[HMC]

3 minutes ago, Brodders said:

Didn't even know they were bothering to sell these in the UK as late as 2002, but glad someone took the plunge so we could admire it 20 years down the line.

Well done, looks like a great purchase.

Thanks, to be honest I was aware of the original qx (tagline: IT EXISTS) but not this facelift. I’m going though a bit of an autoshite rebirth with an appreciation of these sorts of barges (see also Kia magentis/ Hyundai Sonata/ Hyundai ig30)

I love the ambition but indifference (on the whole) from snobby uk buyers. Core autoshite.

[Schaefft]

48 minutes ago, HMC said:

It’s a 2.0 v6. Smooth but slow. Think Roger Moore in A View to a kill.

A friend of mine had the 2.0 V6 with a manual until he wrapped it around a tree while drunk.

[HMC]

1 minute ago, Schaefft said:

A friend of mine had the 2.0 V6 with a manual until he wrapped it around a tree while drunk.

That’s some going! I’m imagining it has trouble breaking traction in the dry (quoted 0-60 is 14 seconds (!)) 

[Schaefft]

7 minutes ago, HMC said:

That’s some going! I’m imagining it has trouble breaking traction in the dry (quoted 0-60 is 14 seconds (!)) 

Almost, I think the manual is somewhere in the 10s. Probably taking a country road turn too quickly at night. The car was a banana but he barely had a scratch apparently!

[Spottedlaurel]

Nice one! TBH I get a bit bewildered by these, I certainly can't remember their model codes off the top of  my head. I think your one is a completely different model to the previous version just badged QX. I should know, I have brochures etc.

I think they called it Maxima QX to combine the legendary reputations of both the early '90s Maxima and the subsequent QX. Or maybe they were just being confusing.....

A couple that I've seen on the road:

 

 

[AnthonyG]

Maximas were popular in the States, not quite as much as Accords and Camrys, but certainly a high seller for Nissan when Americans still bought sedans in volumes of hundreds of thousands annually. 

I actually didn’t know they’d sold this second generation one over here! On a sales par with the Honda Legend of the same era I expect. 

[Schaefft]

27 minutes ago, AnthonyG said:

Maximas were popular in the States, not quite as much as Accords and Camrys, but certainly a high seller for Nissan when Americans still bought sedans in volumes of hundreds of thousands annually. 

I actually didn’t know they’d sold this second generation one over here! On a sales par with the Honda Legend of the same era I expect. 

This gen Maxima was actually sold as the Infiniti i30 in the states, so kinda a premium car. For the last 20 years US Maximas were mostly sold to those who cannot get finance on anything else though, especially after Mitsubishi died, like almost anything Nissan and Infiniti put out over the last few years...

[Marm Toastsmith]

Funny, I’ve just driven a Nissan from east London to Devon, and the other day I was saying how much I fancied a QX after seeing one in an old American TV series (homelands).

Is the universe trying to tell me something?

[High Jetter]

Yup, infiniti is within reach!

[STUNO]

13 hours ago, hairnet said:

maxima?

does @STUNO know its gone from outside his house

 

Had mine now for nearly 3 years, a 3 litre as the 2 litre was not sold here. It has now done 275,000 km's and has NO rust and does not use any oil or water,oil changes are the only servicing it has needed. he engine is silky smooth and very quiet. It does need suspension bushes replaced which it will get next year. still very impressed by it and it can get going very quickly when I want it to !

[grogee]

14 hours ago, RobT said:

Belated pez shot back home.  Just wanted to get out of Ilford tbh.  Also needed a piss, but good luck finding any public toilets there.

Drives really well, nice and wafty.  Probably not quick but I'll find out tomorrow on the run down to Devon.  Was perfectly adequate bimbling around London.

That is gopping, well bought. Been tempted myself a few times along with Camry etc. And did the Legend thing not long ago.

What was Nissan thinking? I bet the sales brochure contained the words, "distinctive" and "unique".

I bet it will never ever break.

[brownnova]

I have a memory of having a top gear calendar in about 1998 which had a yellow polka dot Nissan QX in it.

Google image is not helping me at all here, I simply can’t find it.

Maybe I imagined it.

Anyway: top purchase, much want. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

6 minutes ago, brownnova said:

I have a memory of having a top gear calendar in about 1998 which had a yellow polka dot Nissan QX in it.

Google image is not helping me at all here, I simply can’t find it.

Maybe I imagined it.

Anyway: top purchase, much want. 

Don’t remember the calendar, but I do remember TopGear mag stickering  up a QX , possibly a long termer , in a gag about it being the most anonymous/ forgettable  car on sale.

[brownnova]

Some more searching whilst I should have been working... but... I found it!!

October down at the bottom... 

Tempted to buy it for a tenner off ebay just for that picture!

[quicksilver]

That's a fantastically bland An Car I have no recollection of ever existing. It just looks like a slightly bigger Primera. Top shite, well bought!

[Pat Earrings]

My old geography/maths/d&t teacher had one of these Maximas and absolutely waxed lyrical about them. Gorgeous things.

[RobT]

Devon was achieved.  240 miles at 36mpg so not too bad.  It won't be rushed is probably the polite way of describing the performance.  But it's perfectly adequate.  Another good blind purchase by @HMC

[Hertz]

I take it you are picking up the Murano (said like Vic Reeves in Shooting Stars)

 

[Ghosty]

UVAVU

[AnthonyG]

21 hours ago, Schaefft said:

This gen Maxima was actually sold as the Infiniti i30 in the states, so kinda a premium car. For the last 20 years US Maximas were mostly sold to those who cannot get finance on anything else though, especially after Mitsubishi died, like almost anything Nissan and Infiniti put out over the last few years...

Interesting. I did get the feeling that Nissan is on a bit of a death spiral in the States from the odd US website article I read, I guess their cars are not that different to a Hyundai/Kia and their SUVs are similarly very generic and ‘meh’. And the only non-US brand to really get anywhere with pick-up trucks is Toyota.