This i what i'm saying, everyone look at cartis's sig pic.. the 5th gen is one mean looking **** with that agressive looking front that resembles the R34 in a spooky kind of way. If i saw that thing coming from behind me like at 100MPH i'd move the hell out of the way. The 6th gen is most likely going to be just for "bling bling" to tap into the BMW 7's market.

 

I'm guessing its not gonna look like any of the spy pictures or any of the pictures posted in this thread, I think it will be the exact opposite of what everyone says it is.

 

i sell nissans at victory nissan in richmond va......our litature pacs just come in telling our owners about the new maxima and the pics in the post im replying to are what it actually looks like.....it will come in v6 and v8....v8 offering 310 to 320 hp range

 

a scan of the pic please? also, please scan the page it says something about the v8...that is very interesting. I have to see it to believe it at this point. If this is true

Reasons this probably won't happen (but I could be wrong): Why make more horsepower than the 350z..unless the 350z will increase it's power? Also, why make it more powerful than most than the g35 unless they higher that power too. I don't see a v8 in the Maxima just yet.

 

if you go to my post you replied to you will see a hilighted part that will take you right to the scaned pics i was refering to....as for power and a v8?well it is getting the v8 it is the same one that is being put into out fulsize truck and suv that will be released in about a year.....as for power in the car....its A BIG CAR.....wont be a smallish 4door like it is now.....will be considerably bigger than the altima....as for the 350 and g35....couldnt tell you about the power.......all i can tell you is it will be offered in a convertable scheduled for release in april to june.....nothing out as far as power......it is getting an optional v8 in the max and standard with a 6.....believe it or not but i know it for fact ...i was just in a sales meeting about it on tuesday.....also the new murano will hit dealerships in the first week of december.....drove one last week and its sweet for a suv....also no quest for 03 cause its being restyled and the sentra is being restyled also within the next year.....i have a little to much insite to not know whats actually going....i cant be pulling this much info out of my ***...lol....

 

Interesting.

 

I'm guessing that the V8 Maxima will have AWD and a 5 speed auto standard. The 6 speed manual will only be available with the V6. Nice. Appeal to the enthusiasts and the technically advanced.

Poor Volkswagen W8. All that fancy engine technology will be blown away by the new Maxima

DW

 

It'd be nice to see scans of the literature you got at your dealership. Not suggesting you're wrong, but it would be much more believable to see the picture with some English writing in the background. Also, if Nissan's sending info to dealers, that pretty much means the information is public, so I would expect to see it all over the web, and it's not.

 

not sure if i can get em from my boss....see what i can do....also not everything is made available to the public.....but if you want a picture of it ,its posted on www.freshalloy.com .....this isnt an actual litature pack its more like the here is whats up and coming type thing......seen pics and all colors its available in...
as for weither you believe me or not?i really dont care if someone believes me or not,just trying to clear things up for you..i can garuentee im not wrong about ANYTHING i have stated....i dont put out info on these sites if im not 100% sure what im talking about

 

Tony:
Just as on this forum, many pictures of possible 04 Maximas have been posted at freshalloy. We'd need to have a very specific reference, in order to find the picture you mention.

 

go through the site....when you find the pic of the burnt orange one you found it...but the scanned pics with japanese writing i refered in my first post,in silver is the one also..someone said something about the japanese writing makes it hard to believ....well seems being the car is built in japan like the z car it should be very believable in my opinion.....after all it IS a japanese car isnt it?

i know what it looks like so it doesnt really matter to me who believes me...i know what im going to be selling.....i was just being helpful and shedding a little light on the matter i thought

tony

 

Maximas were only made in Japan prior to the 6th gen (models 2003 and before), but.... As has been posted here many months ago and in Nissan's own press releases (see www.nissannews.com), The next gen 2K4 Maxima will be made in Tennessee with production starting in Jan 2K3.
The pics with Japanese writing around it is the new JDM version of the Cefiro. Are you saying that the next Max will be based completely on the new JDM Cefiro?

My .02
T

 

have they ever revealed US style maximas in japan?

 

Just had my new head unit put in my max....and was talking to the service mgr. He mentioned that the 04's will have close to 280HP and NO V8...only a V6 will be offered. They will be out in March....Go figure.

That's the word from him.......not worth much if you ask me. Its ALL speculation from ALL of us.

 

I was at a dealer 2 days ago shopping for a 2003 Maxima, and noticed that his computer's desktop had the spy pic of the next Maxima (the big silver altima-looking car that was photographed driving on the highway w/4 japanese guys etc etc), and I asked him about it, and he said that Nissan confirmed to them that that's the new Maxima, but doesn't want to make an official announcement to the public because it would hurt 2003 sales. Anyhow, he said hp gets boosted by about 10-15 hp, and NO AWD option as has been speculated (he said the Infiniti line may end up getting an AWD option, but not Nissan) and no V8 option. Scheduled release is in Spring.

He may be full of it, but I don't know why he would have a spy pic of a new Maxima as his wallpaper on an official dealership computer. Go figure!

 

Yeah, those pics have been around for a LONG time. BrianV took them.

They are everywhere.

 

I guess my question would be: what useful purpose would be served by using any one of Brian V.'s pictures as computer wallpaper (and, presumably, as a promotional tool), when they are photos of a heavily-disguised, stylistically-amorphous vehicle that reveals very little about the "real" car underneath? If I were a dealer employee, wanting to stare at some representation of the next Maxima, those pictures wouldn't be it. I'm not taking issue with you, Vito; just wondering why these pictures, which, as Padsy points out, have been around for a long time now, really have that much to "say" to a dealer.

 

That's basically what I was saying to myself as well. What purpose it serves is it creates hype I guess about it. Although that picture is mostly likely NOT the exact replication of what it's going to look like, it's not THAT disguised that you can't tell that it's going to look like a big Altima, and yes, I've seen those pictures everywhere as well long before I saw them at the dealer.

 

As someone corrected you above...'04 Maxima will be built in the U.S.!

IF the '04 Max will have a V8 option...where is this tranversly mountable V8 going to come from? Since this platform will be Altima based and IF it is going to have a V8 it MUST be transversely mounted on this platform! As far as I know, Nissan doesn't currently make a transversly mounted V8.

 

It should be possible to create a transversely-mounted version of the M45/Q45 4.5L V8 (which is longitudinally-mounted), since Nissan has already demonstrated that capability between the VQ35DE versions in the 350Z/G35 and the Maxima/Altima.
Even so, I doubt the Max will get a V8 option.

 

Since Nissan has never had a transversly mounted V8 (that I know of) I don't think a V8 option is gonna happen.

 

I doubt it too.

 

Lets let this thread die until Nissan officially releases something. All this speculation is blowing me!

 

You and I know something ... though, I know and see more

 

like i stated before im not going to defend myself about what i really dont care about....the 5th gen is going to be the mst sought after version when this max comes out and the 03 and 02 the most highly wanted of the gen 5's....as for the v8?well the OWNER of my dealership not MANAGER is where im getting my info from..not too hard to put a v8 in a rear weel drive car..i never stated anything about a awd car.....rear wheel i said...and as for the guys that know so much about the maxes being built in usa?well read a little more ...only limited numbers will be made there and they WILL NOT BE FOR SALE!sometime close to 2005 for us production maximas...now im done in this thread...its sinceless for me to sit and argue....like i said before gen 5 is the one anyway....if people wanted a car that looked like an altima,they will buy an altima....
im happy with my 03 se 6speed titanium package polished titanium meridian packege car that i paid 23700 for ,msrp price was 30000....
im even good to trade when the new body style comes out,any hit the 03 takes which will be about 2500 dollars was already taken car of.....so im happy and dont really care about a gen 6....was just trying to shed some light for you......im done in this thread because like everybodyelse i am tired of all the talk over a car that wont even be out for over a year.....
you guys enjoy and good luck with your search for the truth

tony

 

 

The new Max is going to be built in TN. They will be out in about 4-5 months. A new Altima plant is going up in Mississippi in a year or 2.

The Max will be built on a stretched Altima platform, so there will be no RWD and no V8. I gave up on that dream months ago. So Tony, we're calling BS on your story. Sorry, but if you can't scan in a page that talks about a V8, then we're not buying it.

Later

 

it's gonna be a Pulsar NX!

 

 

ya see...that's what we call a sarcastic remark. A joke, son.

 

 

DOH!

 

got some interesting news... i was at the nissan dealership couple days ago, to get my recall done. and i was talking to one of the sales guys, and i asked do we really max owners have 255 hp.. and of course he says YES. but i was like how come the dynoes show that 2k2 max and 3.5SE alties have same hp at the wheels. then he started talking about the weight of the car, weight of the wheels, suspension, and all this crap. i didn't believe, and didn't even bother to stay on that subject. so i asked him about the 2004 max. and he said that its gonna be much larger in size and gonna be in the class of mercedes and bmws and stuff.. its going to be in the high luxury. he said its gonna cost AROUND $40,000, IMO i don't know if its for real. and anyways.. he said that its gonna be pulling between 280-310 hp. hmm... maybe thinking of a v8, but i highly doubt it. so yea, he keeps going on saying that he redlined 5th gear on a 2k2 6 spd. and he said that he went 160 mph and things like that... i don't know what he says its true.. but i just felt like pounding him... because you can't go 160 mph here in chicago!!!!!!!!

what a weirdo... but if anyone else have support on the upcoming 04 max. then kool!!

 

I wonder if car dealers have an inside joke about who can lie the most to a customer and still be believed.

 

You're giving them too much credit.

 

I was trying to be nice, but I guess you're right. Dealers are generally stupid.

 

Well...about 42 days left til we find out for sure what Nissan has in store for us.

Jan 11-20 Detroit NAIAS

I think they're unveiling their full-size monster of a truck, as well as the 6th gen Max, but hopefully (crossing fingers) plans of a R35 GT-R. Even though we already have 2 sport coupes AWD please!!! We need AWD!!!

 

OK, I'll put my money where my mouth is, I'll bet up to 4 people, $40 each, that the new Maxima is the link I posted below. It will be a bigger version of the new Altima platform. Any takers??

I can't beleive that there are still any doubts about the New Maxima. This PIC that has been posted before is definitely it;

New 6th Gen Maxima

Like Tonylittel said earlier, I can definitely see AWD being offered. Think about it, in Nissan's/Infiniti's USA's entire lineup, no sport sedan offers AWD. A glaring omition, if I say so myself. The only way to get AWD from Nissan/Infinit is in an SUV.

I would almost be willing to bet the AWD and V8 option, too, but I'll leave that out for now Maybe it won't be there for 2004, but might be added for 2005 , but I'm quite sure but not positive it will be there eventually.

DW

 

2004 maxima = any 2001 cadillac

 

dwapenyi

Putting up $160 is quite a challenge ... to be fair, you do know that the pic is off the Nissan Teana right? I'm not saying that it is or isn't the new 2004 Maxima.

When you say bigger than the Altima, are you implying a different platform? I think whatever little media coverage has established that it will be built off the same platform as the current Altima.

I shall abstain from prticipating in this lil wager since I know a little thing or two more about the new Maxima

Til the official unveiling! Cheerios