Well. Recently acquired a 90 GXE Maxima. I was completely blown away by the features this 13 year old car has. I think it was light years ahead of competition. Whatever happened to Nissan since then?
Features:

Digital Readout Gauges
AC Climate Control
Electronically controlled suspension damping
HUD (Heads up display)

This is all on a 13 year old car. Hell, Corvettes didn't even get the HUD until 99 and Nissan had it in 89
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HUD

 

 

You sure are right..... Damn that guage cluster was amazing and still looks amazing.

 

yes

3rd gens were way ahead of their time..


btw,
that thing looks CLEAN.

Don't sell it bro.. keep it as a beater. It's hard to find a low milage, 3rd gen with options these days



it's more cost effective to exclude these little things now a days...

once i made the step from 3rd gen ---> 4th gen, i noticed a LOT of things different...
completely different cars...


they don't make em like they used to.

 

oh yea...


In before all the 3rd gen *****

who says 3rd gens don't get their respect

i think everyone in general would agree they were excellent cars for their time...



i miss my 3rd gen

*wipes a tear*

 

 

Yup! That is why us 3rd gen guys are soo religious and in to our cars. Especially after finally seeing the 6th gen, there will no longer be a "real" Maxima 4DSC. The 4th and 5th gens cannot touch the 3rd gen's build quality and it is too bad they cost soo much for Nissan to build and they had to change the design. They should just bring the 3rd gen back with a upgraded design, but oh well, Ive got mine

 

Hey anton...you take payments on that?

 

Lump sum

 

dam, u so right sweet sound, that 90 GXe (wow, base model ) has more features than 4th gen GLE's and other high end models...why did they stop? sucks that they did

 

cost cutting




hence the rear beam shall we continue?

 

 

Probably because it thinned Nissan's profits.

 

i will beat you with my 3.5L..and punish you with my 6 speed But i'll admit..the 3rd gens do have something going for them..

 

just wait 5th gen boy, I got alot planned for 2k3!

 

My HIDs will burn your eyes untill they look like rasins...haha j/k..what you gonna do?..hmm? 5th gen bumper?

 

 

heheh doi...my dad's 91 SE is sweet, still, at 160k miles.

Seems like lot of cars during the early 90's had ... interesting features that were later discovered to be problematic or unsafe: sliding seatbelts, digital gauges, talking cars....

 

That's why 4th and 5th gens are called minimas.

 

and second gen's were even more impressive electronics wise...

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yo Anton.. i would buy it if it wasn't an auto

 

I remember reading the book w/ my 90 SE back in the day, but i never saw a max w/ the digi display or HUD. Man i wish i had kept mine as a beater when i got my new one. . .


meeeeeeeeeemories. . .

 

This isnt a flame or a dis or anything like that... I wanna know, seeing as how my Max, or any car I've owned for that matter, hasn't had these settings...

How often do you people that have sport/confort settings on your suspension/etc actually take it off the "sport" setting?

 

VG POWAH!!

 

when girls are in the car.

 

That gauge shot makes indiglows look like doo doo.

 

Imagine a 4th Gen. Maxima, with a 3rd Gen. interior (features), and a 5th Gen. (specifically 2k2+) engine. That would be pretty sweet!

-Nick

 

Yes...that would be pretty awesome

 

ur def. right! That car was wayyyy ahead of its time, no wonder Nissan sold so many of them. I like that thing that projects the speed on the winshield.

 

 

yeah we seriously need to find someone who will produce these four the newer maxes.

 

The whole idea behind this was to make car's more "futuristic." Finally companies abandoned them and out came the traditional mid 90s car - the 4th gens, the camrys, the accords the civics etc. Companies are once again trying to "futurize" cars. I wonder if in ten years will look back and say "Crap that stuff was terrible." All in the fun

 

That is so cool, I only drove one 3rd gen and It didnt have those guages, I think its an SE(Auto) though. Do you guys have that "YOur door is ajar" in there?

 

I drove a third gen SE once and aside from the adjustable suspension, it didn't have any of that...haha, back in the days when GXEs ruled.

I want those digital dash things...

 

bwahhahahahhaa yeah...the Z's had that and the digital gauges for sure! I wanted to rip the thing out. "Your door is ajar. Your door is ajar. Your door is ajar." NO, it's a door!

 

IMHO: The whole talking car stuff is gay, 3rd gens dont have that, that was only 1st and 2nd gens. I dont have that adjustable suspension dudad crap either. I have a 92 SE, that is when Nissan did away with the fruity stuff and were making DRIVERS cars. I have the power/comfort mode and use it alot, when in power it is like a 5 speed, it will hold gears til redline, in comfort it shifts at 2k rpm. I have a fully loaded 92 SE auto, soon to be 5 speed (28 Days), power and heated mirrors, vlsd, variable intake, vtc, dual power seats, abs, SE ghost white gauges all the stuff needed to still be pimp with the new cars...VE POWER!

 

That dash is sweet. But we all know the 4th gens have the best exterior.

 

 

Dude, what the hell. My 90 GXE didn't have all that stuff! I thought it was loaded. It had leather, bose, etc.. but certainly no digital dash, no hud, no climate control. It did have the suspention control, but it was a switch, not a button like that. I too miss my 3rd gen, even without those features.. but the power and the exterior of the 4th gen have got it hands down in my book (it's ok if not in other's books).

 

no VI on the auto VE......

 

yeah, I am sort of not auto right now.