there are stupid comments and then there are some comments that make you wonder why people dont just STFU. i mean i've heard stuff such as "nice altima", "4 cylinder or 6?", "is that a 5 series?", "did you get your windows tinted @ %^@#%" "my brother had the SAME car but in coupe" <--- from a dumb chick ! etc etc etc.... but nothing tops the one i got last night. i was with my buddy and we pulled up right into this chevron gas station to grab a few red bulls before hitting the club and i parked right infront of the door. as i was exiting the door, i notice this guy is standing there and just starin at my car, i look at him then look away and get in the car. then he runs to the window and goes "HEYYYYY MAN, ARE THOSE LOW PROFILE TIRES?" and my buddy who was tipsy yells out, "NOOOO WAAAAY MAN, THEY ARE OFF ROAD STYLE" and then we take off. it was just so hilarious, we were laughin for hours. LOL

share your stories !

"your car is not green"

"Are you gonna get some graphics for it?"



from some ricer at O'Rielly auto parts...

Even though my Max is stock to the Bone, This forum and Other members cars has really hyped me up about my Maxima.

Whenever i drive with my friends, im constantly pointing out other cars while saying "I can take it".

My friends just nod their head, and say..."dude, Your Maxima Will NOT take it"...so i give them a mean glare and they just laugh.

i've heard the "is that the 4-cylinder or 6?" one a few times. funny story about that chick talking about the coupe Maxima...

a few people in my area try to talk me out of modding my four door family sedan and put my money into a real car like a civic or something with v-tec

From an insurance agent last week, trying to get me to buy his policy:

5-spd, huh? Gosh, that's a fast car. My mom has a '99. I think it's faster than my 540, not sure why, it just feels that way.

He tried to patronize me by saying my 98 5-spd is faster than his '97 540i manual. Yeah, try again. If he were honest, it would have been something like this:

5-spd huh? Did it leak from the reverse-switch o-ring? Gosh, that car has more motor than chassis, huh? Handles like c***, I know because my mom has one. It's like a slug doing 60 in the mid 7's, right? Definitely can't hang with my 540.

from the driver of an STX-class Subaru WRX at an autocross last year, walking by as I was putting my track tires on: "Autocrossing a car like that must suck!"

His best time of the day ended up being over a full second behind mine.....

haha i hope you pointed that out to him as you rolled away in a much better looking DD

I knew I wanted a 5th gen since I was a sophomore in college. The girl I was dating at the time told me that they have ****-poor quality. I asked where she had heard this from as she had not cited any solid references. Her reply always was 'They just are'.

Suffice to say, I threw the Wards in her face and FINALLY shut her up...

Some kid at my high school back in the day asked "sweet car, is that VTEC?" So I ended up making fun of his skateboard?

I had one guy that wanted to tell me he knew more about maximas and told me that his a special edition V4!! I wish i was kidding but true story. I justed wanted to take his car away from him and run him over with it.

i have heard why is your car purple and then comments about my hood scoop but i expect those

kid in a 7th generation corolla said his car was faster than mine because i'm auto and he's manual.
let me re-word that. A kid in a STOCK corolla said AND BELIEVED his car was faster, than my modded automatic maxima.

you trying to say my comments were dumb and ridiculous?

Let's see. The one that pisses me off the most is "your car is SLOW". I have people that always say that to me and then feel like a dumb a$$ when I beat them in a race. I almost knocked this kid out that's supposed to be a "friend" that I got to school with. He claims that back home in jersey, he has a mustang pushing 650 rwhp and that my car is slow as hell and is a piece of s*** and it REALLY gets on my nerves. And of course to make things worse he started the argument of saying nj is better than ny like a d***. Now for the most part the max is not really a race car. But for what it is, I think it's anything but slow considering it will take most of the cars out on the road today.

from an older gentleman at the gas station pumping gas next to me:

"Nice car. Does that thing have Vtec that I hear my son constantly talking about with his friends?"

Nice guy, but apparently not too in tuned with the automotive world.

"Wow, is that the new Altima?!" said in 2004 about my 2002 Maxima by a car salesman at the Nissan dealership where I was getting my oil changed.

"Maximas have never been made in automatic. They are all 5-speeds..." said by the car salesman sitting in the automatic Max I was test driving. After I pointed out the obvious (or not so obvious to him), he came back with, "It is a 5-speed. It has four speeds forward and 1 speed back." Reverse is a direction, not a speed, genius! It's still an inside joke with my friends who know about that story.

HAHA I just got finished(well almost) with my de-k swap in my 95. I took it up to nissan to show a friend of mine(he is a mechanic there) and ask his opinion on how to hook something up. So i had the hood up right in front of his bay and some other guy that worked at nissan(I hope not a mechanic) says:

" I see you put one of those cold air intakes in there.."
haha my friend was like.."thats a whole 2000 motor in a 95"
then the guy was like "oh"
hahahaha I didnt know what to do but laugh and then he just left

"What is that,a honda"..

Somebody asked if it was a Toyota...

my EX gf said 'doesnt matter if you're faster than (insert one of many ricers), their cars are still better, they look and sound awesome' (she's now an EX gf)
guy at school-'maxima huh...that sucks....'
'why would you do all that stuff to an altima?!'
dealer, after looking into my car-'whoa, you swapped a manual in there? These never came in manual'

there are a BUNCH more

Firestone tech after joyriding:
"Whattya got dun to thes theng?!"

I ended up getting a free shifter trim out of it so water under the bridge.

I absolutely HATE when people ask me about my shaved trunk. It's like they don't think I could find the car until I read "Maxima" on the back.

haha i get the "why you spend all this money on this car" a lot as well as cops who ask "what kind of nissan is this?"........ cant you read the registration?

Kid at school called it a "hooptie" thinking that I thought my car was a piece of **** too. Its got a few dents, I guess that automatically makes it a pos.

hey is that a altima.

yes josh. kinda like this

i had cops pull me over before and they couldnt figure out what car it was because all the emblems are shaved.

Really weeds out the people who don't know anything from trying to be "cool" and talk to you about your "ride" when they don't even know WTF to call it.

oh that reminds me of the time i went to get a quote for my damaged quarter panel and the guy managed to call it a sentra and an altima in the same sentence, then he called up a guy in teh shop and called it an altima again after i corrected him the 2 previous times.

just after purchasing my car they are really rare here:

neighbour: WOW that Honda is even bigger than the ACCORD!!! What type of HONDA is it?

or


I didnt know they made altimas big like that in those years....

people are funny CANT YOU READ M A X I M A IT'S SPACED OUT FOR EASY READING YOU ****************** ***************** *** *******

I don't get any stupid comments, everyone I talk to about my car (or that says anything) is so FUKCEN SMART!!!!!!!!!

lucky you smart people in this world are rare

I was kidding.

oh yea when my first maxima got totaled on the accident report the cop wrote down altima

Altima > Maxima


Work Cited: this thread.

"That's imposible, Maximas don't come in stick"

What nissan did you get those wheels from.

but it's not

when talking to the parts guy at the dealership "maximas didnt come with 6spds in 2002"

also saw in another thread, salesman "i dont know where youll find a 2002 with a 3.5, they only came with the 3.2"

Legitimate question, to an extent.... from the Nissan dealer PARTS MANAGER....

"Where'd you get a different color badge? Is that something you had custom made?"





SE-L's came with the "Titanium tinted" badging.


And from my dad...

"126K on the odometer... how many more miles does it have left to it.... 20K, iif you're lucky?" I replied, "my ex-g/f in Florida has a 95, and she's got 310K on hers... and she beats the dog**** out of it."

"you a street racer?" by some punk kids as they walk by my broken down Maxima