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So as you guys know I recently announced the basically in the market and looking for a new car
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You know a long term take my time and casually
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Look for something to you know find that perfect new car something to match the criteria. I'm looking for
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Now we did take some suggestions and one of the things that came up
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Goes to my mind and what your all suggestions were
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Is the Maxima
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Because I am looking for a sedan
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I'm looking for something sporty something it has, you know, a reasonable amount of luxury features would be nice and
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The maximum that does match a lot of those characteristics, so here we are today in the 2019 Maxima
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This specific one and super test driving is the platinum trim, that would not be what how we're looking to get
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It's too expensive but the driving dynamics of the car is the same
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Pretty much on all the trims except for the S bar which is a little bit more hard edge a little bit sporty here
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What I would probably be looking for is the SV or the S, though
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Just depending on what type of discounts as far as why I'm interested in it
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I already kind of addressed a little bit of that stuff. But one of the main reasons is actually that price
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The sticker price is reasonable to start with but for those of you not familiar with
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The current discounts and stuff of the Maxima they can be discounted a good amount for sure
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Especially as towards the end of model years and whatnot
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So definitely you can get a Maxima for a very appealing number. Let's just say so
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Why not? Let's take it for a drive. Let's get
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You know some good honest
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driving time in
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See, you know if it meets that criteria
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I spoke about it in our reviews of different Nissan products and Infiniti is a vq
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Engine is actually one of my favorite engines
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I
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Just love the way it sounds I like the raspy-ness to it
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It's not the most water and it's not the most refined but I actually like the rough edges
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Of it. I
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Just find it appealing. It definitely sounds good a start up and
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Like you said that's that's really appealing compared to some turbo fours, which have no sound sound kind of crappy
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So that certainly is appealing on the worried side is the CVT
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That's not ideal for sports sedan. It's also from wheel drive a front wheel drive only so you
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May have concerns putting the power down
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But anyways enough rambling so what we're gonna do basically is just give you all this
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sneak peek fly-on-the-wall
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Perspective we're gonna take it on a honest
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Test drive just have an honest conversation with each other between us and you all can kind of
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Be there along for the ride
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Stirring is oddly hard to turn low speeds like really gonna crank it
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Somehow do the driving but one thing that caught my attention was the fact it really does not have much
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storage space in here
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Enough place to stick your phone
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Mystic stuff, I mean this is smaller than the Altima in terms of pretty much everything
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Maybe not the exterior dimensions. But as far as the interior space is concerned has less rear legroom less trunk space
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So it doesn't really surprise me honestly, but it is a nicer place to spend time
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If the sound does not disappoint now I
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Do exactly what I was hoping it would sound like and it does
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Out on the road
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And what I'm gonna be paying particular close attention to is the CBT
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Yeah, I'm ready for ya
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Rubberband and make sure there's no rubber band eNOS and see if that would be how much that would bother me
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This car does not get super great fuel economy
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20 in the city cuz I want to get the city that's not good 24 combined. That's not good
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He's not recommends premium fuel. I would never put premium
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If it's recommended, I mean most the times he Consumer Reports has tested this specific car and
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Said that it's useless
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The TLX in this car are two of the cars that really makes no sense to put premium fuel in because
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They just use naturally aspirated v6 engines
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That are the same as in other
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Nissan products that just because this is more premium car does not I
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Let's just say it doesn't make me feel like I'm having a more premium experience just because I'm a more putting premium gas
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done
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But you don't have to use so if you ever had this card on
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Steering wheel is great
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I really love that part
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The steering itself
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It's fast responding it's not
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It's not the most feel
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So it's kind of numb
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so you lose a little bit of perspective aware of you where the wheels are placed, but
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It definitely is fast enough
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Now sport mode is I like the sport modes I would use that
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You know definitely makes things more responsive really sharpens this car up
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Most cars that
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Rust I really am like it makes it makes a really noticeable difference
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A lot of cars. It's just a button. You push make a
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Puts a red trim on the gauges
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Feel and feel like you're really sporting it up
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But this is you know, you actually can notice the steering it gets it has gotten quite a bit heavier
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Even faster feeling. I'm always do something. I'd like adaptive dampers or anything so you're not gonna like
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get you know more tight on the suspension or anything, but
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Still feels good and a throttle response is a lot more aggressive. The sound is amplified through the both speakers. I think this
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Do you like this steering?
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Yep
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I like it. Like I said is it
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You know, it's not the world's best scaring
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Pasta you know the mazda6
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They they the steering on that is probably better
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but I also don't think this car has this much torque steer as
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They have similar issue mounts of torque
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This is down a little bit, but not a lot
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However, this feels like it puts the power down a little bit more. Don't you think or maybe?
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Yeah the last time I drove it was a little bit wet that place does play a factor of course. Yeah, there's a
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moderate amount of body roll in the Platinum
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And the you know the other luxury minded trims the SR
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It does have a sport-tuned suspension. So to keep things firmer on the ride quality, but also tighter one
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turning
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Or anything because that
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Seems pretty good. Yeah, I have a narrow body. So the seat is I recognize that
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Almost no manufacturer's seat is gonna hold me
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In place because it has to accommodate
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for the average body size
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It's comfortable see it is and it's very comfortable like I really like the ride of this car
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But I keep going back to the mazda6 but that's one that we have driven
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It definitely I think it probably has a nicer ride than the Mazda 6 it's very smooth
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It feels a little bit of a class above that or it could just be that you know
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There's really fantastic materials in here. That's one of the reasons that I like this car so much is that this cabin is
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nice
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But that's CVT how that is the biggest issue with this car so
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Where you put the power down, oh, it sounds really good and is really fast. Yes very fast
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now I
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Am I will say now. I've been driving this a little bit. I can see how the transmission reacts and different
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situations a
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little disappointed in the
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CVT in the sense that unlike the Altima
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Which had a really convincing simulation this older xtronic CVT?
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The simulation doesn't really play that big of a role
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it doesn't seem to want to simulate the gear changes except under it like heavy throttle and even then it's only a
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Visual and audible thing like it just changes the RPM. I can see it. Yeah
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it's a little bit better than if it just, you know slammed up at the top but
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But I'm not feeling any kick and for somebody like myself I you know, I like silly sporty
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I can't manually shift no trace up to something else or it comes with paddle shifters
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From my perspective you should have but even then
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You know being a CVT having paddle shifters on a CVT it still never gonna be the same regardless
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That does the CVT seems to be this cars at weak point. I mean, but I kind of knew that going in right
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The question is, you know do the other things offset it that's the ultimate question
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So I guess the question basically is
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Is the 2019 Maxima a car that I would consider I
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Would say yes if the price is right
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I've would prefer probably something that has a little bit more of a
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All-inclusive sporty package
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You know certain aspects of this car are more luxury oriented. I can't afford the SR and
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in the other trims the suspension tuning and stuff is a little softer, but
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Nothing that I nothing that from this test-drive has maybe want to rule it out
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But I'm still not sold enough to be continued to call off the search
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like I said, I have someone that's gonna be thorough and
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I'm going to drive all types of different things
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Even things that you know, a lot of people might have assumed that I would not be interested. Yeah
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It's something like this, but you have to experience something in person. You can't just I love YouTube videos and whatnot
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I want everybody to watch our YouTube videos
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but by all means if you're really interested in a car, don't just go by what
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We say about a car go and experience it in person