I was driving home yesterday and when I came to a red light a hooked up 5th generation Maxima was sitting next to me. We drove together for a couple of miles just screwing around, not racing but just toying with each other. We were cruising around 40, I was about a car length behind him and I saw him gun it so I did the same. I was at about 3.5K RPM so optimally I should have downshifted but I was just screwing around. My point is that although we were both flooring it, he wasnt pulling at all on me and eventually I even passed him but quickly slowed down when I realized how fast we were going. Im not sure if he was driving an automatic or not but arent these cars supposed to have about 50 extra hp than us?

 

Bad driver can make a fast car slow.....

 

If all you determined is that its a 5th gen body style then it may very well still have the vq30 and since the 5th gens weigh more then there you go. If it was a 5.5 gen theres no excuse.

Pardon my ignorance, what exactly is a "hooked up" car?

 

It's not 50 hp....they have 222hp in the 3.0l and 255 in the 3.5l.
So it's either 32 or 65 .

 

It was definetaly a vq30, and by hooked up Im just talking about the look, lol. It had rims, tints, body kit.