anyone have the 10-02 issue of car and driver magizine? it had a writeup on the maxima. 14.7 1\4 mile 147 top speed. i would like to read full article if you can scan and post it..........thanx

 

Dunno if this is what you want, but the C&D web site has this short takefrom October 02.

 

edmunds.com has a nice writeup on it as well

 

I too went to read that Short Take, and from the tone of it, I got the impression that C&D was not too impressed with a 2002 Max, or any Max of late. To each his own!

 

Surprisingly, C & D Magazine really didn't heap a lot of praise on the Maxima.

 

thank you for the short take.

 

I wrote a thread awhile back complaining about clear inconsistencies with that month's C&D, especially when it came to the Max. The article was certainly a backhanded compliment. They would say great increase in HP but not enoough more than the competition. They also felt that Nissan was clearly going the way of the Altima so it wasn't necessarily a good idea to go with a Maxima. The article really infuriated me but as someone else pointed out, you should never magazine race. You have to go and find out for yourself.