That does not equal the 34% the car lost in value in its first year......5000 sounds good til you do the math, not to mention we are in the cars 2nd year

 

 

2019 Altima is getting AWD. Unfortunately the VQ goes bye-bye....It looks fantastic...unfortunatly, the 4 bangers are deal killers. Wonder what they will do with the max for 19

 

0% for 72 months is (roughly) equivalent to 10% off the final sales price, assuming 3% annual inflation. So if MSRP is 37000 for SL, your deal is equivalent to paying 32000*.9 = 28800 in cash, slightly below 80% MSRP. It's not a particularly great deal at this point, it's just ok.

 

 

2019 Maxima? If you have a 2016, 2017 or 2018, you're looking at it.

 

Was hoping for a 3.7

 

Like they say, hope in one hole and poop in another and see which fills up faster. Knowing Nissan, 2019 will add more gadgetry to the already overwhelmed cockpit but nothing to the drive ability of the car. Look, I love Maximas, on my 6th now but where I started and where the car is now is worlds apart and not all for the better. The car now has less tactile road feel than say my old 94 with manual tranny. The fun of a Maxima WAS thrashing a 4 door sedan like a coupe. Now, it's acoustic glass, zero gravity seats and more gizmos than a NASA wet dream. Nice to drive but not the experience something called 4DSC would bring to mind. Expect the 9th Gen to cater to the crowds not the enthusiast.

 

I am going back even further....Back in 88 I had purchased a new 89 240SX and had an 89 Maxima as a service loaner one time. That car seemed like a rocket ship to me....I would have swapped in a heatbeat. I was in love with the Maxima from that point forward.

 

Getting back to the original post... Canadian dealers generally do not offer the deep discounts that American dealers do. The Max is made in America and the Canadian dollar has been fluctuating between $.75 - $82 of the American buck for about a year. So the difference in the dollars eats up some of the America discounts in Canada. So... your deal is pretty decent.
Now... I would think that the majority of the Maxima owners, not necessarily Maxima.org owners, are quite happy with the transition of the Maxima through its generations. Nissan, like all car companies, is attempting to maximize profits on virtually every model. The current platform is their attempt to maximize profit. My 7th gen Max was my first car ever that I owned that was an automatic transmission. This could be why I think the CVT kills the traditional tranny. Yet, now in my fifties, I would never go back to a manul transmission (which I did have in my 6th gen Maxima). I as well owned a '90 240sx and also an '94 300ZX turbo, which where both a blast to drive (I would have preferred the 300 horsepower in the 240), but I am not going back. I love my '17 SL when in Sport mode, and wouldn't want a manual transmission again unless in something like a GTR. Essentially Nissan knows the target market for the Maxima and is acting accordingly.

 

 

Just for reference..I bought my 2017 maxima SR for 24k out the door.

 

New? If so...KILLER

 

The planets must have aligned. Canada is a totally different animal.