2004 Max!

I am surprised no one else has posted this, but fresh alloy has pics and info on the new max!
http://www.freshalloy.com/site/cars/nissan/2004/maxima/debut/home.shtml
This baby is sweet! 265 HP, 6 speed manual and looks to kill.
I attached what I thought is the best pic, go to the article for more.

My only issue is it now will start at about 28K, but we all knew that was going to happen based on the new Altimas

i think that things kinda ugly. looks like an alfa romeo or something from the front

I actually like it. I will admit it does look a lot different from the current Max, but the agressive styling will win most people over.

:D :D i wish mine had a 6speed with 265 ponnies but i like the look of my '03 more, still happy they didnt just kill off the MAX!!!

It looks like an Altima on steroids

Shit. Who ever made that body for new max is definetly on 4 pounds of purkesett a day plus 7 leters of liquid morphein an hour. WTF were they thinking. I can understand the horsepower increment. The body is ugly like my Monkeys ass. Thats only half of the problem. THEY EVEN MADE IT V8. IM STICKING WITH PREVIOUS MAXIMAS.

Appearance is subjective, but you got the engine wrong. Still the same VQ engine.
http://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/FutureModelSpecs/0,,24284,00.html

Take a look in the gallery section and skim through the pics and look at the pics of the back seat. With the center console in the back seat as well, how can you have sex in it:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

As far as looks go!!:finger:

Damn I am posting alot... Oh well, it beats working...

The center console is an "extra" or premium option, not standard...

I think 2004 Maxima looks pretty cool...different but good. I would take it instead of '03

BLAH!!!!:bloated: I like the angular look of the 5th gen better:D

Japaneese designers at this point should suicide or Ill buy this max and run each one of them over and over and over again

You say that now Dis, but wait till one of these smokes your ass ;-)

i like the 4th gen style the best of all. i think the new one looks bogus

I think I gotta see this thing in person, that will give me a yay or nay, from certain angles it looks OK, but on some of those pics, it kinda looks like a giant ford focus w/ a VW Passat twist.

Its ugly, but thast when I said about the 5th gen and then it grew on me, still have to say 4th gen is my favorite. They just made this thing look too much like an Altima, not a good thing

Originally posted by lordrashmi
I am surprised no one else has posted this, but fresh alloy has pics and info on the new max!
http://www.freshalloy.com/site/cars/nissan/2004/maxima/debut/home.shtml
This baby is sweet! 265 HP, 6 speed manual and looks to kill.
I attached what I thought is the best pic, go to the article for more.

My only issue is it now will start at about 28K, but we all knew that was going to happen based on the new Altimas

lordrashmi, I already posted some pics of the 6thgen on 2 other threads on page 3 of this forum, they are photoshopped to take away some of the stock look of the 6gen Max. Check out the threads and then holla back.

I do like it without that big front emblem. I am guessing that 2-3 years after they release them (when the price comes down somewhat) we will start to see a lot of interesting mods to them.

hahahhahahahahahaahahahhhaah :monkeypis :shocked: :monkeypis :shocked: :monkeypis :shocked: :monkeypis :shocked: :monkeypis :shocked: :monkeypis :shocked: :monkeypis :shocked: :monkeypis :shocked: :monkeypis :shocked: That gotta be the fugliest max ever made... I like the current max model...

I definitely like the styling of my 4th Gen. Max better, but if I could get a 6 speed max I wouldn't care about the looks. Besides, it doesn't look that bad.

i dunno, they are pretty damn ugly...that grille is unforgivable, as is the rear. and it's undoubtedly gonna be slower than the current 6 speeds, considering it weighs about 200 pounds more with only a little extra oomph.
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i think it looks ok, but i like the 4th gen style the best. i wish there was a larger engine that could be put into a 4th gen model. it looks a lot like an altima

Nissan is destroying the looks of the max :cry: moving towards aggression x-x they need to fire their employees and hire new ones from automotive forums, therefore we can get wat we like

Here's some more 6th gen Max pics, photoshopped of course:

Here another one, I hit it from the back:

Originally posted by bk2kmax
Here's some more 6th gen Max pics, photoshopped of course:



Whoever made this picture in photoshop should be part of the Nissan Team.

the front shot reminds me of a 300zx. not bad

Hey P, I thought the same thing when I really look at it too either GS3 or GS400, but I love that Z Grille, that's what they should've put on it in the first place, instead of that fugly @$$ tooth thingy.

Here's one more for ya:

Blue Max:

Thats actually not that bad. That is a tight A$$ pic... Like I said , I gotta see this thing in person. It seems I might grow to like it

Yeah, i agree, seeing pictures and in person is way different. so we'll see once they start rolling around. the grille still sucks though

Ok if they actually take your photo shop pix and make it like ur then yeah that a nice car.... Actually your photoshop of the max look a bit like the lexus GS430 to meh ... But still nice photoshoping :) ...

call me crazy, but i can see GS in the current Maxima's as well, from certain angles anyways. anyone agree?
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they'll make nice kits for it. it has potential.

Here's another 6thgen Max:

Liking it yet:

One more Max pic for the wildlife fund:

Who said silver isn't better than gold?

I know you'll like this one better:

Originally posted by Paonessa
they'll make nice kits for it. it has potential.

Have you seen the inside of the new Max? I think it has loads of potential, it's very well laid out, I like the dash, the double sky roof and the trunk hatches (they don't protrude into the trunk).

I'll get some pics and post it if yall want me to.

all this talk about kits and such ignores the fact that stock, it just isn't a maxima...sure, with a kit, just about any car can be made to look great, that is what the aftermarket is for. maxima's have always been good lookers straight out of the box, and that's what made them so great, that you didn't need a kit to make it look great. who wants to buy a brand new car knowing that you need a kit to make it not ugly. like i said, it goes against what made the max what it is!
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Originally posted by thrasher
all this talk about kits and such ignores the fact that stock, it just isn't a maxima...sure, with a kit, just about any car can be made to look great, that is what the aftermarket is for. maxima's have always been good lookers straight out of the box, and that's what made them so great, that you didn't need a kit to make it look great. who wants to buy a brand new car knowing that you need a kit to make it not ugly. like i said, it goes against what made the max what it is!
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Man, you're right there, nobody thinks this car is a Max straight out the box, it's gonna take some work especially for the fugly front and that oversized rear end. Inside the Max though is a different story, there's a lot of quality and I think it's what all of the interiors in all the Max's should look like.

Nissan really disappointed me when they failed to drop a V8 and AWD in this new Max. Who wants to buy a new Max with only 5 more hp than the last gen. At least from previous gens to gens they upped the hp and torque between 22-33hp & 17-20ish tq.

yeah. i talked to some ass wiper at the nissan place when the 350z first came out. He told me to expect an 8 cylinder maxima radically redesigned. it looks different but definitely not radical. The 4th gen is the best max to date IMO. they shoulda taken a 4th gen tweaked it and re-released it as a 2004..

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Originally posted by thrasher
all this talk about kits and such ignores the fact that stock, it just isn't a maxima...sure, with a kit, just about any car can be made to look great, that is what the aftermarket is for. maxima's have always been good lookers straight out of the box, and that's what made them so great, that you didn't need a kit to make it look great. who wants to buy a brand new car knowing that you need a kit to make it not ugly. like i said, it goes against what made the max what it is!

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Absolutely right guys, I forgot that all the pics bk2 posted were in some ways photoshoped and its a shame that this has to be done to make one of the top ten v'6s look, well up to par... Nissan really let me down, because I first noticed Maximas back when Menace to Society came out and I fell in love with the car. Then in 95 this one cat in High school had a 94 SE blk on blk, Man that thing was fast and beautiful. My point is that these cars looked great stock right out the box and back then nobody even put kits on them. 17 inch rims and a bangin sound system is all the work these cars needed to be truly plush. In the words of bk2, "JUST MY .02"

yeah, i agree that the 4th gen is the best looking...5th gen is evolutionary, as opposed to revolutionary, as the 6th gen is. nissan has forgotten what the maxima is supposed to be. let's incite a revolt!!
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Why does everyone have to be so negative about it? Yes, the front grille has got to go but other then that, I am pretty happy. When I first saw the 5th gens I thought they looked odd, but the more I saw them and I saw what a great car they were I grew to love them. The 6th gen certainly does manke a dramatic leap in terms of styling, but in my mind, it is pretty nice. The side and back both look quite agressive and (excusing the grille) the front isn't bad either.

And for not having AWD and a V8 in the car. Not having AWD is a disapointment, thought it might be offered in the future. However, why would you want a V8 in your max? Yes, more powerful, but you begin losing part of what makes a Max. Any company can put a bigger and bigger engine in a car to make it fast, but the max needs its 6, lightweight but still enough to smoke many other cars on the road. And for business reasons, there is no way they could have put a V8 in, it would have trashed the infiniti G35 sales and competed with Infiniti M45 sales.

Sorry to rant, I just personally love the new Max and got pissed about everyone ripping it a new one. We all are entitled to our opinions so I guess no one here is really right or wrong.

it shoulda been some sick ass skyline maxima hybrid. i was hoping to see some twin turbo awd 6 cylinder vq's driving around in 2004

definitly guys , we have the best looking maximas ever, they have speed, luxury,style , class and personality, out of all the gens and i mean allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll the 4th gen breaks all the nicks on the road and the track:smoka:

What is going to happen to the I-35. I am really interested to see wher it will go with the success of the G-35 and introduction of the M-45.

I35 will prolly stay as the more luxury oriented entry class sedan for infiniti, and G35 will be performance oriented. Think of it like Lexus does it; IS300 for going fast, ES300 for going smooth. Inifiniti would be silly to drop either, as they would give sales away to Lexus.
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I mean as far as looks go. Same direction?

I know I brought this thread back from the grave but I guess I just had to add a lil something I didn't realize until today. I was watching Motorweek and they stated that the 2004 6th gen Max as a Rear wheel drive vehicle.

I've never seen it quoted anywhere else as being rear wheel drive, anybody else know for sure if it is rwd?

I'm going to check www.freshalloy.com to see if they quoted it as being rwd, I believe I only seen that it stated fwd.

Can anyone confirm if it is rwd or not?

Just took another good look at freshalloy's Maxima page and this is what it states:

Maxima at a glance
Configuration:
Four door mid-size sedan
Front wheel drive
Models:
GXE, SE, GLE
Engine(s):
3.5L V-6 (255 bhp)
Base pricing:
$24,699 - $27,099

Motorweek's quote was RWD!
Like Michael Jackson would say, "Who's right, who's wrong?

That is a good question! I seem to recally seeing FWD but I can't find it on the site. This is from Nissan's site but it doesn't mention F or R WD.... Would the limited slip differential be a clue though? I am not sure if they have those on FWD cars.
http://www.nissanusa.com/vehicles/FutureModelSpecs/0,,24284,00.html

• Updated 3.5L DOHC 24-valve V6 engine with an improved 265 horsepower and 255 lb-ft of torque, featuring award-winning VQ technology
• Choose from close-ratio 6-speed manual transmission (available on 3.5 SE), 5-speed automatic with electronically controlled manual shift mode (standard on 3.5 SE), and 4-speed automatic with gated shifter (standard on 3.5 SL)
• Electronically controlled "drive-by-wire" throttle
• Available Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC) with Traction Control System (TCS)*
• Available Helical Limited Slip Differential
• 20-gallon fuel tank

That would be sick if it were RWD, I think I would consider one then!!!

I'm just like Maximus on this one, if it is RWD I'll consider one even with the fugly @$$ tooth thingy on the front (I'll remove it).

I was just quoting what Motorweek said as the Max rolled out RWD, everywhere else I've looked says FWD. As far as the LSD issue goes, LSD is not only for RWD cars, the FWD cars seemed to need them more especially a car like the Max.

The Max puts out a lot of torque to the front wheels and the LSD will stop all of the excessive wheelspin normally associated with fwd or rwd, this is why awd has an advantage on take off because there's no wheelspin and all the power is put to the ground.

Again I guess we're back to where we started, is the new Max RWD or FWD? Someone get some proof, not just inuendo.

no, it's not going to be rwd...remember that it is being built off the new altima platform. if it was rwd that would put it directly against the g35. i doubt nissan is that stupid.

how many of you guys actually have a local infinit dealership?
i had to drive 45 minutes to find a some crap-hole called Pepe's Infiniti.
The Nissan place is right down the road.
sorry to go off topic, somethin thrasher said got me thinkin'

Well, infiniti's site is f*cked up right now so I don't have exact distance or all dealerships but I know there is one dealer about 20 min from here and pretty sure there are a couple more within 30.

Then again, I live in Houston and you can't go a mile on the freeway without seeing a dealership... There are sections of the freeway where for 1-2 miles there is nothing but dealerships on both sides of the freeway. Land is cheap so they tend to create HUGE lots. The best I have to say is the Land Rover place though, the created an obstacle course for the yuppies to try the land rovers on. Probably the most off roading they will ever do.

The best thing about so many dealerships is if you play your cards right, you can get them too play off of each other and lower the price.

Originally posted by thrasher
no, it's not going to be rwd...remember that it is being built off the new altima platform. if it was rwd that would put it directly against the g35. i doubt nissan is that stupid.

I was thinking the same thing, that's why it didn't make sense that Motorweek said it was rwd, otherwise why would anybody buy the G if they could get the same performance plus rwd in a Max for a cheaper price.

To my man P, the closest Infiniti dealer to me is 2 hours away in Raleigh, been there and test drove the G that I'm buying for my wife this year, those people are the nicest folks, much better attitude than the guys at Nissan especially when it comes to service.

I really can't complain my Nissan guys are good to me here but I've read and heard a lot of horror stories from others who said that they would never buy Nissan again just because of the crappy service they got when they went to the dealers. < I know that this was OT, sorry just had to get it off my chest.

Thrasher just killed all my hopes, but he's right, I doubt Nissan would make the Maxima RWD and the G35 FWD. Oh well looks like I have to just grow to like the looks of the new max, but I have to see it on paper first.

do any of you guys have trouble with your nissan dealerships? from my experience, nissan wants to get you in and out as fast as possible...on the other hand, infiniti service is just amazing. hard to believe sometimes that they are the same corp.

Originally posted by thrasher
do any of you guys have trouble with your nissan dealerships? from my experience, nissan wants to get you in and out as fast as possible...on the other hand, infiniti service is just amazing. hard to believe sometimes that they are the same corp.

Maybe you should've started that question as a thread, like I stated my Nissan guys are good to me at Don Williamson Nissan in J'ville, NC.

I'm on a first name basis with the guys at the Service Dept, they are very friendly and I've even met the owner Don Williamson himself and he took me to his office and showed me some pics of the new Max before it even came out on the net. They let me drive everything on the showroom floor even though they knew I wasn't going to buy anything.

I would've love to buy that Murano, I just didn't happen to have 38K laying around.