Just wanted to know if people drive there maximas in the winter or do you guys have a winter car and if you do what is it .

Winter car = 2002 toyota Landcrusier, LOADED navi,jbl system, bla bla, Black , gatta ride in comfort throught those harsh winters

I know i should have gotten the nissan armada but HEY , im sorry to admit it toyota is VERY reliable.

 

If I could afford three cars (including my wife's)......if I had that kind of cash, I sure wouldn't still be driving a maxima G35C baby.

QMax doesn't really care about what we drive....he just wanted to brag about his Land Cruiser Must be nice to be 20 yrs old and have a landcruiser AND a maxima....

besides....who needs a winter car when you have the max?

 

peole have seasonal cars?? do they keep them at their seasonal homes?

 

1993 Nissan Hardbody reg cab. 2wd

 

I work from home so I just don't drive

........and when I do I take the volvo cross-country. That thing is a TANK in the snow. It's 100x better than my F-150 was (sold it to buy my maxima) even in 4-wheel.

 

ye im with you man, winter car is usually the beater car, not a landcruiser with navi, blah, blah, blah, 3 TVs, blah, blah. seems like the max should be the winter car in that case, but i know, i know its the 4WD.

anyways i got a 1990 5spd miata beater that i use when i dont wanna take the maxima out. yes, my "winter car" is RWD and convertable, cant wait till it snows here!

 

I'm 22 and I toyed with the idea of buying a 500 dollar beater or something for the winter ... before I realized that spending $500 would break me and I couldn't afford the insurance on two cars. So no winter car for me. I'd even take a set of winter rims right now.

 

I drive this!

 

yea im 17 i have one car and no job (yet) i applied at best buy and circuit city last week..but when i get my job at best buy im guna buy myself a landcruiser with a bigger tv and a sweeter navi than yours. also i ll get the enzo and the g35 coupe..maybe a Z just to throw on top of those pieces of shi tt i listed b4

 

Since I can't afford anything else at the moment, my winter, spring, summer & fall car is the Maxima.

 

i got a 93' mazda protege 5 spd with a primer hood, flat black grill, sanded fender with some bodywork. its also green and has a yellow dounut at the moment so i call it a john deer. btw,where i live in winnipeg canada where it's -43*C with the windchill at the moment (those heated seats and steering wheel would really come in handy right about now)

 

Do heated seats matter when it's -43*C?

 

are you sure its 43 C not F? that seems crazy low

 

getting ready for the winter with my 4x4 '99 Xplorer!!

 

hm, my maxima

 

My Max is in hibernation as we speak. My winter car is a black '03 Grand Cherokee Limited w/ the 4.7L high output V8.
Looks just like this one...

 

I drive my max all season round, dont have a choice since im not loaded like other people my age.

 

My winter car is the Lamborghini Murcielago that sits in my Maxima's back seat... whether I am driving the 99 SE or 00 GLE... Just kidding about car in backseat I don't need separate cars in Texas except for tomorrow when it may snow. Then again that snow may melt 3 seconds after it hits the ground.

 

Not loaded, but i still live at home - thus a decent disposable income. Being a car fanatic causes some of us to spend money where we shouldn't.

 

No winter beater. Just my Maxima.

 

Spend money where we shouldn't, sounds to me like you've recently gotten around to lowering the Max which you always say you're going to do soon, you slacker

It hit high 40s in South Florida last week, it was soo cold I started looking for a winter car w/o luck. Oh well at least it didn't snow this time, luckily my guy friends don't mind driving me around so I don't have to drive my Maxima during the cold winter.

 

92 honda accord. 210,000mi.

 

well i couldnt make my maxima my winter car, it lowered, it has a kit and has sum nice wheels i doubt id drive it all winter w/o sliding into something Or just killing the clearcoat on my kit with all that salt in the road, i really do want to know what ppl drive as there winter car since alot of the guys on here do have nice wheels , lowered with kits and then the max is extremely imposible to drive in the snow. Yea im 20 but a good education goes a long way so im able to afford what i have and i thank god everyday for what i have.

 

If there's an ice storm here in TX I just call into work, saves me the trouble of buying a winter car. I've always got my wife's Stratus just in case, or I can borrow my dad's Grand Cherokee. I toyed with the idea of buying a third car for backup, but at $500 my choices at work were limited to a '79 Caddy Fleetwood with a 455 and a 4 barrel and about 150k miles (gets about 8 MPG or so) or a '95 mitsu mirage coupe with 225k on the clock. There's been a couple others...hmm.. '81 Chevy 3/4 ton with a 454 and a 3 speed stick...bah...91 civic with a jumped timing belt. Your choices aren't good at $500.

The only reason I wouldn't want to take my Max out in the ice (other than 250 hp and FWD) is because of all the jerk drivers out here who crash just trying to get out of their drive ways.

 

Winter Beaters - 02 Max and Jeep Grand Cherokee 4x4. -- these keep the benz CLK430 off of the nasty roads

 

When you're 20yrs old and a student/engineer you'd better able to afford a '03 Max and '02 Landcruiser. It must have been a tough toss-up between that and the +$30k Armada.

Then again, he does live in NYC...

 

I have a 2002 Honda CRV EX AWD. Great little sport ute. We bought it new in the summer of 02. It is my wifes daily driver it has 48000 miles on it . Anyway my wife does not work when its bad weather her job is always closed. So for the most part I drive her CRV when the weather is bad. I have a 2000 Maxima with 49200 miles on it. I drive her sparingly in the winter months & not at all in bad weather. But in reality there has been that occasional time when I am already at work & the weather turns bad..... snow, ice, rain what have you.....& the Max does just fine with my Pirelli P Zero Nero MS tires when asked too.

 

1992 Jeep Cherokee 5spd W/178,xxx And Still Running Like A Champ!

 

My winter car will be my max with potenzas.... LoL

Jk... I meant my 94 Toyota Camry V6 LE with awesome tires, the max isnt moving out of my lot until it gets new rubbers.

 

Ok well 1st off the 03 max was a GIFT on my birthday from my parents to me , the armada and the landcrusier were both used and about the same price, i work part time at a company as a mechanical engineer so i make a decent amount of money im still living with my parents so have no expanse, so its not a problem to buy a truck, plus its bigger so the whole family can go out with alot more room, as for all you assho*e who think im jsut tryna show off that i have a landcrusier thats not the cas so shut the FUC* up its not the hard to get a landcrusier there not all the expesive, all i wanted to know was what ppl drive as there winter car that ALL. I hate how so many of you go off topic and jsut accsue people of things YOU dont know who i am so keep you stink comments to your self.

 

Uhhh.. parents didn't give me a car on my B-day, my POS winter car is ...... well ..... the same POS car I drive now. LOL I love my car... winter, spring, summer and fall, sounds like a dorky song huh???

 

i have a few cars to drive for the winter....-NSX, FX, and a SI..Doesnt mean i'll actually use them...but for now i'll still drive the max w/caution...unless theres like 3 ft of snow... them i'll use the FX(if my sis or brother in law don't need it)

Oh and give QMax03 a break and stop the hating....he was just stating the car he uses....have a good winter everyone and drive safe

-Jay

 

Whoa there, youve been on the ORG long enough to know people love to mess around. haha its all fun and games until someone gets sensitive and gets pissed off.....

 

lucky me i live where the only thing is rain and fog. make fun for drifting didnt know FWD cars could get so sidways.....ONLY IN A CLOSED PARKIN LOT WITH NOTHING TO HIT....

 

damn I got the worst beater with a heater! From Nov. 15th-march? I drive a 1987 toyota camry with 125 on the clock. BRand new brakes on all corners snows up front and brand new all seasons on the back. Pics can be found on my cardomain page.

 

nice dude... toyota is really reliable... thats all i can say about them...

 

sorry, but a maxima is not a car id garage and get a secondhand car for. Maybe when i have my 03 cobra ill garage that and drive the maxima when its crappy out, besides it handles pretty well in the snow and has heated seats.

 

Jay, you own an Acura NSX?

 

Q Max, what else did you expect? Most of your peers dont get an 03 Max for b-day gift, nor they can afford "relatively inexpensive" Land Cruiser. They are working hard everyday not to have the 2nd car but to afford one, and it is very tough in the real world. The sense of jealousy is very natural here.

 

A $25k gift and a $35k "beater".
The real world: there are plenty of full-time Mech E.s who would be uncomfortable owning either/both cars.