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When the Maxima debuted in the 80s, it was still under the Nissan/Datsun brand Here are the best Nissan Maxima Models that came out from the year

What's you're opinion on an older generation Nissan Maxima say from , what year would be my best bet to get? I've been doing some.

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Read Motor Trend's Nissan Maxima review to get the latest information on models The Nissan Maxima was the Motor Trend Import Car of the Year.

Who would buy a car that needed a skilled hand and a back road to truly shine? What's you're opinion on an older generation Nissan Maxima say from , what year would be my best bet to get? Nissan just decided to make the Maxima a full sized rental car. Bought it when it was nine years old because I needed a car to park on the street downtown. Torque everywhere, drove well, long, truck like shifter.

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A couple of months ago, our own Mark Stevenson drove the eighth-generation Maxima. I have yet to drive the Max myself so I have, as of yet, no opinion.

However, I have driven all of the previous cars at one point or another between and And since this is the Internet, we might as well rank them, right?

It was the last of Maximas, it was the worst of Maximas. When I drove one up the California coast in , I thought it was born to be a rental car. Like its sixth-gen predecessor, this was essentially an Altima Plus.

The VQ35 remained a stout engine but it no longer raises eyebrows in a world where even the outgoing Impala could be had with a horsepower V6. This was, no doubt, the ugliest Maxima.

Victimized by a common Nissan sedan styling theme that worked okay on the Altima but looked bland on the Sentra and bloated when up-sized to fit a If you did that, and if you dumped the SkyView in favor of an actual sunroof, then you had a decent car. What do you do for an encore? You probably actually worked for Nissan in or thereabouts. Its mission was to give the Infiniti G20 plenty of breathing space, and it almost succeeded at that mission. Unfortunately, Nissan made the Seventies-GM mistake of thinking that they had no competition.

Fuel-efficient, by the standards of the day. That was the , a bigger, more luxurious take on the Datsun that had become the standard-bearer for SCCA sedan racing.

The Maxima was the same car with more luxury, more features, and even voice warning through phonograph or solid-state units. Again, the contemporary Cressida was probably a better car, but the Datsun had plenty to recommend it.

Most importantly, it was part of the Japanese push upmarket that just five short years later would result in the Infiniti Q If you want to know what the pace of automotive change was in those days, just consider that: It cost much less than a BMW e but could easily hang with it on a twisty road.

The Toyota Cressida against which it competed was one of the Eternal Toyotas, while the Maxima was simply average-Japanese-Eighties build quality. They liked to rust. But the biggest problem people have with these cars is that they were basically Led Zeppelin III: The last two years of the model featured the horsepower Nissan VQ35DE and a six-speed transmission bolted to a limited-slip differential.

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