No prob and that would be a good assessment based on my experiences with them both!

 

Infiniti has a coupe coming out I'm not sure if it's a coupe version of the Q50 or something different. I know yall are gonna like this one. My hope is that Nissan takes this and puts 4 doors on it now this is what a Maxima should like it if it became one!!!!!!

 

The new coupe coming out is the successor to the G37C, so yes it is simply the coupe version of the Q50 which is going to be named the Q60.

 

In a nutshell, the main thing that hurts sales and interest is the CVT. I have driven a 6th, 6.5, and 7th Gen Max. Out of the three, I'd prefer the 6th's slushbox. The CVT in the 6.5 drove me nuts and had me wondering if they castrated the Maxima. The 7th was slightly better but I did not like the performance.

Plus, with the price tag almost approaching Infiniti M levels, Methinks I'd probably go with one of these if I was in the market for a 4dr sedan:

 

^^ that the new Chev SS?

 

The CVT works good in the 7th gen I haven't got to try it in the 6th gen because I have a 6 and not a 6.5, but I have come to find the less power the more harsh. The CVTs the more horsepower they have the better they work.

 

One thing to remember is that the current G37coupe is going to be renamed Q60 for a year or 2 to confuse people even more.....Also the current G37 Sedan will be sold along side the Q50 for a year or 2 as well as G37.....Dumb move by Infiniti, for a few reasons......It will cannibalize some Q50 sales due to a lower price, and it will have the same power plant and power as the Q50 (non Hybrid). For those that do not care to have the latest and greatest, they will go with the G37 Sedan as it has an established reputation and it has the same drive train specs....and all for a cheaper price!

 

Infiniti is trying to revamp it's line to boost sales right now. Most car companies release spy photos a few months to a year prior to its release. Nissan has been very good at hiding the 8th gen Maxima because nobody knows what to expect. Were all getting anxious trying to figure out what this car is gonna look like.

 

It wont stray far from Nissans current design them which includes the 7th gen as it was the 1st to intro it in the Nissan family of sedans...It will be evolutionary......Look how the Q50, Altima, Sentra all evolved from the 7th gens design and how Altima's pretty much have evolved instead of being revolutionized since the 02 model and has been very successful since.

 

Nakamura the Chief Nissan designer was saying that the Next Maxima is gonna be shocking in looks so I have a feeling this car is gonna catch us off guard like the 6th gen did in 2004. Infiniti is making a car above the M37/56 that has me curious too!

 

We will see, use to work for Nissan corporate for years before it moved to TN from S. Cal..... Since then I'm in the DFW area for a major airline. This has been said before, whats shocking to them is not so much so for the general public if you get me!

 

Major Airline that's funny you mentioned it i'm actually a professional pilot and Nissan was doing great when they were in Japan but when they started making everything over here it changed.

 

Very nice, I'm a Sr Accountant. My father and brother both are, my pops retired with DL on the L-1011 in June 2001 and my older brother is a 737-800 captain with AA!

 

They are???

 

yessir------------> http://www.carscoops.com/2013/05/inf...-flagship.html

 

It's the old Q45/Q50 model that they ditched a few years back. It wasn't as much of a threat to the 7-series and S class Benz Nissan/Infiniti hoped it would be. Maybe they're trying to take another crack at that segment.

 

it already has a Nissan badge on it, and Maxima wheels.

It does look GTR-esque, though, which is a big and I could see this being the front end of the new Maxima...

 

It's too sharp looking I have a good feeling about this one!

 

I can tell you now...that's definitely NOT the new Maxima. It doesn't even look close to that!

 

Hmm, I'm not so sure how that will work out. The M (Q70) is as flagshippy as you can get IMO. This should be interesting though.

Except if this is the Q60 coupe , I don't see how they would put 4 doors on it AND make it look significantly different than the Q50 sedan.


It's badged as a Nissan because all Infinitis are sold as Nissans in Japan. So this would actually be the Q60 sold in Japan under the Nissan badge.

 

I know THAT, sillybear. My point was that it could be the style of the new front end of the 8th gen. And you said the new max front end was GTR-and Altima love child...which to me this is...since we all know the front end of the redesigned Alti is just a softer 7th gen max front.

 

Styling the new Maxima similarly to the new Q70 would be an option IMO...I mean we can all see styling cues up and down the Nissan / Infiniti line...


Either close to the CURRENT M or simiilar to teh new Q70 would be nice.

I don't see Nissan straying from something that's SIMILAR to what they've currently got, in some form...

 

The 2014 Q70 is going to be the same as the current M. The generation isn't changing so neither is the shape, it's just being renamed. Aside from a mid-generation facelift, I don't see the Q70 actually changing its shape until the 2015 or even 2016 model year since the current gen M started with the 2011 model year. If what I think is true, we would end up seeing the 8th gen Max alongside or even before the 5th gen M (Q70).



This looks a lot like the current gen M and it could be the facelift the 2014 Q70 receives, but I can't see it being the next Maxima,

 

I was just about to post that picture above and ask what do yall think of this. It's handsome but its too luxury and no sport enough.
The picture I posted of the Infiniti coupe that's the one that would do as a Maxima.

 

 

The 8th gen Maxima should be a world class car and better than anything in the Midsized segment. Also a bit competitive in the luxury segment. If I was a Nissan Designer I would make the 8th something like this. You dont take this and put a CVT in it and make it a front wheel drive that's sloppy. Instead you make it a RWD give it about 320 Horsepower
and about 317 pound feet of torque. Give it a system when you turn the corners the rear wheels turn at an angle for better handling. Would you guys give it a 6 speed AT or a 7speed AT? It's just my opinion of how I would make an 8th gen Maxima it's not perfect but I wanted to share it. Bottom line Nissan needs to step it up you've got alot of cars out here right now who are way ahead of the current Maxima.

 

I got you...but my point is that translation doesn't do the actual car any justice. The design of the 8th generation Maxima is beyond anything in that segment period.

 

well then, pics or it didn't happen

 

Oh so you work for an OEM on the corporate end??? Didn't think so!

 

You SAY you do....but it's only talk on the internet.



I can say I work for an OEM if I want to....but I will say this, and since it's teh interwebs it's gotta be true:

 

That is true, but let me ask you this...if I didn't work for the OEM then explain to me how I would know that MY14 is going to run its production course all the way through Dec. 2014? Also to add no MY15 will be released. Hmmmmm....oh the wonder....

 

seeing again how it's unconfirmed by any sources...you could easily be pulling it out your ass. The thing is, soemone who posts solely in this forum, solely in THIS THREAD claiming to have all sorts of Nissan knowledge about this new gen maxima doesn't really have credibility, taking things at face value.

It's just fishy.

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And why oh why would Nissan not release a MY15? No other car manufacturer has, to my knowledge at least (I could be wrong) EVER skipped one MY and kept a MY longer than usual. Dodge left us with no Durango for several years, but that's becuase they were in ownership issues.

 

I never claimed to have all sorts of Nissan knowledge. Please correct yourself. The company has over 250,000 employees globally so that should tell you that not every employee is going to have the same insight. I only posted to this thread because I do have knowledge of the next generation Maxima....DUH...but hey like I said before time will definitely tell so in the meantime keep your eyes open and don't drop the soap!

 

EXACTLY, YOU ARE WRONG. Please do yourself a huge favor and look up the 2008 Nissan Murano and please tell me what you find??? Probably nothing because the last MY of the first generation was 2007 and the first MY of the second generation was 2009. (FYI the production of MY07 ran for more than 12 months).

 

I was wrong. I even said that I could be wrong, and obviously I was. No Murano for 2008.

But there's a difference in skipping a MY when it's the first-second generation of a vehicle and when it's the 7th-8th gen of a vehicle

 

But, unfortunately with Nissan it isn't...in any case I'm not here to troll, just to offer some insight. You guys can take it however you would like because at the end of the day truth is truth and a lie is a lie.

 

That's true.

Since you've actually seen this thing...and mentioned that there's no prohibition from talking about it, I see no issues with finding some of the spy pics / other pics that look like the new gen car and letting us know "the headlights are these" "the tails look like this"...etc etc. Since the pics of these other vehicles are on the public domain, you wouldn't get in trouble...

 

So this means that if you're lying, you have to deactivate your account and never post here again. LOL

Bust seriously, we already have a good idea of what the Maxima is going to look like with the Ellure concept, and that it's supposed to take us unaware, but what about technology? Should we expect Infiniti technology? Maxima's competitors have AWD, Adaptive headlights and cruise control, Front heated and cooled seats, rear heated seats etc. Should we be assured that the Maxima will deliver more premium features than it does now?

 

A major noteable would be the Corvette, their was no 1983 model year. The C4 went on sale in early 83' as an 84' model!. You fellas carry on, this is a good read!

 

yeah yeah go ahead and pile on the "Amerikaner's wrong" bandwagon It'll only happen this one time