Ever wanna tap the minds of those non-car people? What have those aunts, coworkers, dates, etc thought your Maxima was?

Here's my list
1. Camry, verry common
2. Acura, fine with me
3. Sentra/Altima- name confusion
4. Passat- this person was drunk

 

actually I don't think anyone's ever really confused it for any other car... they just simply had NO CLUE whatsoever what it was because apparently they remember the 2nd gen and then their memory skips straight to the 4th gen.

 

- Camry
- BMW
- and the classic: "What the heck is that?"

 

Piece of **** grandma car (From the owner of a 93' Civic DX with no exhaust I ended up raping in a race later that day)

Toyota Camry (Friends little brother)
Nissan Altima (Person at a gas station)
Nissan Stanza (Guy in Traffic)
Volvo (Friends mom)
Volkswagen Passat (Same friends mom)
Acura Legend (Friend of a friend)

And of course the random, "What the hell is that thing?" in traffic after I ran neck and neck with my little brother's friend's dad's Hemi Magnum.

 

girls swear its an acura, dumb people think a galant.....and the best one ever.......someone swore it was a skyline cuz of the badge

 

qft

 

since i have my Maxima and since then whoever i met, they had no idea that what type of car it is....

 

An r34 with wrx tail lights....

 

Couple of my friends thought it was a Honda Accord, but that's about it.

 

LOL Honda Accord? if someone said that to me i would have trashed my car i cant tolerate that much disrespect lol......

 

One time I had "CAMRY" printed on my side of the timeslip during a bracket race. People now think that Camrys are fast.

 

The usual..."what is that?, a camry?"

 

yeah, that is the truth.

It sucks that I don't see many other 3rd gens out there. I seem to spot a lot more 2nd gens and of course, loads of 4th gens.

 

Same here, there are a few 3rd gen's around but they're all run down to hell. I did catch a 89-91 Pearl VG SE in traffic one time on some aftermarket wheels and eibach's (or blown struts ) We gave each other the thumbs up since it's so rare you see one that's taken care of. My older sister called me a dork

If someone by chance does recognize the car though it seems they really appreciate it. (An E36 Owner and a pizza delivery guy telling me how cool they were when he was in highschool)

 

#1 by far- camry (g thnx, thats what mom drives)
others- honda (grrr), mazda, celica (wtf??)... etc.

most people are car retarded. nothing can be done about it.

 

Some guy at the track with a UTI shirt asked me is that the new se-r. Its a 4 cylinder right? I told him yeah and he just kept lookin at my car.

 

^lol @ that

 

4 door acura integra WTF, acccord also, there are a ton of 3rd gens in and around my town.

 

Toyota Camry

 

i drive a 4th gen, but i get confused with a Skyline.. from my body kit.. -_-

and a bad looking camry

 

a CHEVY MALIBU, now THATS BAD, refferng to my old GXE

 

cadillac CTS.....cuz of long corner lights like cadillac.....

 

i get this all the time

1. camry
2.bmw
3.accord
4.integra

5.my personal fav was the dumb chick who thought it was on old 5.0 mustang

i love 3rd gen owners cuz we still honk or wave at eachother when we see eachother one dude actually idled next to me talking about the car while i was in a drive-thru saw a cutom lime green SE today the dude screamed "MAXIMA" out of his window

 

 

I actually never had the misfortune of my 3rd gen being mistaken for another brand/model car. Most times i get the comment " Is this a maxima?" Me: Yeah it is, a very old one, "looks nothing like a maxima"..

I've even had people pull up next to me at a light and just grill the heck outta the car. Thats where i just roll up the windows and keep looking str8 ahead and wait for the moment to speed off ....lol...

 

1. Accord
2. Camry or Corolla
3. some what of a European Car??? (Not a BMW) this was in Tennessee as i was driving up to Indiana from Miami, FL.
4. The usual "What the hell is that?!?!?!"

on a side note, they even think its newer than '93. most people will say if this is a '95+.

 

Most people are really surprised to hear when I say mine is a 92. They expected mid/late 90s.

And they are really surprised to see that it runs 12s. :cough: Ran 12s.

 

the owner of a 95 mistook it for a 95 somehow

 

My mom always calls it an Altima and then quickly corrects herself with Maxima. Once I pulled up to a corner food mart and some kid that looked like a Crystal Meth user of some kind came up to me right after I got out. I quickly assumed he was going to ask me for money, but even better he kept saying..no way...no way..dude is that a skyline? I said no. And he said yeah it totally looks like one though huh? I just said sure. Am I the only one who has ever mistaken the front end of a Cadillac for a 3rd Gen? There's been a few times I've only been able to see the front fender from the side, and I'm not sure what model Cadillac it is but I think it's a Maxima untill I can see the rest of the car. I guess it's the corner lights.

 

yea sometimes i'll see them when visibility is bad and wonder if it's a 3G if all i can see is the lights

 

u got it

 

i mostly get sentra but once in a while ill get accord i never see clean 3rd gens always beat up ones

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i've never gotten sentra.... tho the 3g max is shorter, narrower, and lower than a 2009 Sentra is......

oh and btw [.IMG]url[/IMG] minus the period, not <img src="http://forums.maxima.org/3rd-generation-maxima-1989-1994/">. just click the square w/ the mountains in it and paste the URL.. it'll do the work for ya

 

well i get mistaken for the early 90's sentras. They are like maximas just smaller my mom took this pic and said she thought it was me she beeped and yelled it was 2 chicks lol ohhh and the couldnt get pic to post up that way
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hahahaha!!! thats a stanza. yeah those also resemble the 3rd gen maxima as well.

 

lots of cars look like our 3rd gens

BUT THEY ARE ALL NEWER THAN 1989 ,
except our 89-94 generation
next time i will post something you dont already know
this is for all the mis-informed that may wonder whos cars copying who?

 

stanzas and the like.......minimas

 

it's a Seville (STS/SLS) I actually sold my last VE to buy one (93 STS).

 

a cop gave me a ticket in my old 4th gen and wrote down it was a honda. needless to say i didn't have to pay the ticket.

 

I have gotten called a lancer 4 times since finishing the body work....