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1996 Ford Crown Victoria: first car, yes it was an interceptor
2002 Buick Regal GS: factory supercharged with grandma suspension and brakes. Zero to terrifying in not too many seconds. I replaced its underpinnings with parts from a police impala. Quite the sleeper.
2006 Toyota Camry V6: Buick was starting to bite the dust and i had just started a new job so I got my mother's old car. Figured it wouldn't be too bad with the V6. The V6 was fast but the 6 speed auto was incompetent to say the least. The car could do 0-60 in 5.8 seconds on paper but took a month to find the correct gear everytime you pushed the pedal. No joke, you'd smash it to beat a yellow light and it would finally downshift and go after you were on the other side of the intersection. Couldn't wait to get rid of it.
2013 Infiniti G37x: hated that stupid boring Camry so much I splurged. Haven't regretted it.
1993 Nissan Maxima
1998 Nissan Maxima GLE
2008 BMW 335i
2010 BMW 335d
2011 Infiniti G37 IPL
^ how was that '10 335d? those things must have been sleepers. tons of grunt down low i imagine, ~425 lb/ft i recall. they only made them for a few years and now all you can get is the 4-cyl diesel turbo.
Yes, I had a lot of torque. 425 sounds about right. And with the tmap booster (only mod), I was easily over 450.
I went to the D because I've always wanted to try out a diesel; just seemed kind of cool and hipster. And coming from a lightly tuned 335i, I was getting like 18mpg. I think my final average was 17.6 (I thought that was bad until the G37). I ended up getting around 22.5MPG in the D, which was a drastic improvement. So that was cool.
But I did get stranded once because I couldn't find a diesel pump after searching 3 exits. Got stuck in the ghetto of Crenshaw on the way to pick up my mom from the airport. Was not fun. But the ghetto diner I went to was pretty legit.
Alright, to the ride now. So I the biggest reason I went with the D was for the raw power. I wanted to experience having that much power. Going in a straight line was cool. You feel a massive force pulling your car forward. But for having all that torque, there was not that much speed. The car just felt like it pulled. I think the best way to describe the ride is it feels like you're driving a truck in car form.
One time I got walked by a IS350. Thoroughly disappointed in the car after that day. Seriously, **** that car.
And maybe due to me being a poor driver, I never felt very confident taking corners hard with this car. It was really easy to give it too much power. 335i was a lot easier to drive in comparison. But this could just be my poor driving skills.
I have owned a lot but here are the Nissan's
1974 Datsun B210
1995 Pathfinder 4x4 XLE (still have)
1996 240sx Zenki (turbed the KA. Screw the SR!)
2006 Pathfinder
2002 Maxima SE 6Sp
2010 Maxima SE
G37 Sedan (Current)
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