i didn't even consider Infiniti until the G35 came out. my buddy got a used I35 before i bought my G, and it's a nice comfy car and everything, but frankly i wouldve saved some $$$ and just got a maxima - same car.

Before I bought my G, I was dead-set on an Acura CL-S, but then the G35 came out and the rest is history.

I envied the Q when it first came out with the wacky commercials with rocks and rivers etc. I looked at the G20 back in 89 when I had an 89 Maxima. COuldn't see paying the same price for a 4 cyclinder. The QX4 caught my eye and a buddy at work had one. Everything in between was a blur. Never cared for the I30/35. Never cared for the M (any of the years). The Q went on a real wacky design phase (still not back). Now the M35/45 and G35 are the hot ones. Don't care much for the QX56. No replacement was ever issued for the QX4. My Infiniti buddy says Nissan is getting all the good stuff.

In college I had to get a car that was reliable and different so I ended up looking at ALL my options and I ended up with a used Infiniti I30t with 43k miles on it (5 years old at that time)...I didn't want a small car like a Civic or anything domestic. In fact, the only reason I bought the car was because I didn't know what it was because I never really heard of "Infiniti" and that it had a lot more features (leather heated seats, sunroof, auto climate control, power everything, homelink, etc) than my very first car, a 91 buick skylark...ever since then, I always considered Infiniti because the I30 was a solid car even though it was a maxima it at least looked different Still running strong and the same way when I first bought it, but with 130k miles.

yea i loved the g20t it was kinda cool. I got a celica gt-s instead bc of the lack of any aggressive styling with the g20. but it was a nice little car.

To me, Infiniti just didnt have enough of their own personal style. Almost every car they had was basically a rebadged nissan. Why get an I when it was literally almost the exact same thing as a maxima?

Now the G was something new and special. I know the coupe and the 350 are built on the same basic design, but the differences are night and day to me. The sedan is a vehicle all its own as well. The new M looks very very nice too. They are definately moving in the right direction.

Nope would've never considered an Infiniti.... The Infiniti make always seemed to appeal to those a bit older.

Just like Cadillac...ALL of their cars appealed to the older crowd...MUCH OLDER...

Then the Escalade came out and all the other new boxy looking Caddis and look at them now...all these younger people buying them slappin the 26"s on them.

no, they couldn't pay me to drive a Nissan/Infiniti ever since the Z went away.

I thought the original Q45 was a nice car back in the day, but way out of my price range. Its 278HP 4.5l V8 was a pretty powerful engine for that time. I briefly considered getting a G20, but a 140HP four-banger in a $26K car was kinda weak.

Nope, never considered Infiniti before. I never even considered any Japanese car before the G35 - they just never made anything that interested me. Boring designs with small displacement puny engines with no torque never appealed to me. The G35 Coupe changed all that: excellent original styling, with great handling, great brakes, and an excellent larger displacement engine with a broad torque and power band, all at a great price. I didn't think the Japanese could be this creative, but they hit a home run with this car. Enough to win this American car fan over.

I literally laughed at the G20. It was practically a dressed up Nissan Sentra with leather interior and an Infiniti nameplate. It reminded me of the Cadillac Cimmaron joke of the '80's. Nearly $30k for a 4 banger Sentra with leather and a Mt. Fuji logo? Gimmie a break!

While Infiniti in their earlier days was attractive due to their high consumer approval results, there was not a single car that I thought looked good enough to buy until the G came out.

Before the G I had never considered owning an Infiniti. I was a Honda/Acura guy all the way.
However, for some reason I've always held the Infiniti brand in high regard, even though I wasn't interested in any of their cars until the G.

Same here, nothing my garage for years other than Honda/Acura automobiles and Honda motorcycles. I love the company, their build/quality standards are next to noone in my experience, and their engine durability is better than anyone IMHO. But I've grown tired of their defensive and safe corporate policy towards building autos, they are always playing it safe. I wanted a RWD Vee engine'd sportscar, so here I am I've had 0 problems with my Honda/Acura products and after reading about all the rattles, TSB's, etc, I'm a little apprehensive but still going to pull the trigger soon on a coupe

With most of the cars on the road look very much alike, I think the G design stands out pretty well. It does not give you the run of the mill car look.

BTW, have you all noticed that there are far more G Sedan on the road than the Coupe. I saw close to a dozen Sedans today while traveling to PA for business on I-95 and did not see a single Coupe on the road except mine.

The girl I am seeing drives a I30t, she loves hers.

I'd laugh too if you paid $30K for a G20. I'd also laugh if you saw a sticker that read anywhere near $30K, because it would mean the Infiniti dealer saw you coming with the word "sucker" written on your forehead. (See signature below.)

Actually, the G20 was a rebadged Primera, not a Sentra. The original Sentra SE-R of the early 1990s (a Car and Driver 10Best for the four years it was made) carried the $17K G20's rather expensive and somewhat exotic (for the times) all-aluminum SR20DE-based powertrain. It was one of the sweetest-revving, torquiest four-cylinder engines ever made. The original design in my '91 SE-R redlined at 7500 and revved to 7850 before the limiter kicked in, making good power and silky noises all the way. Brilliant engine. The third-generation SR20DE is in my wife's '02 G20 Sport, but Nissan toned it down a little as the years went by. Redline dropped to 7000 rpm for one, the intake muffled a little for another. But still a fun engine. Hardly fast in a G20, though; later cars ran to 60 with a 5-speed in about eight to eight-and-a-half seconds.

Interesting analogy, and one fraught with misinformation. One thing to keep in mind is that the SR20DE was produced as a factory turbo (the SR20DET) in Japan for a number of years and was an easy drop-in mod for SE-Rs and G20s. A number of folks in the mid- to late '90s were buying used DETs from Japan, shipping them over, installing them and heading to the strip. They'd run high 13s/low 14s right out of the box and hit high 12s with a few bolt-on mods. We're talking seriously fast two-liter four bangers that carried utterly bulletproof bottom-ends. Unlike the with the VTEC crowd who'd scratch their heads after turboing an engine and watching it explode into shiny pieces at 13 psi, the SR20 family was good for 25 psi of boost before any real reinforcement was necessary. Nissan overbuilt this engine. A lot of guys would dyno 350 to 400 whp in their daily driver with nothing more than a stronger, metalized head gasket and (obviously) a bigger turbo/looser wastegate in there.

Hope the history lesson helps. F-body/Fox/Corvette guys are usually clueless when it comes to Japanese imports and speak from the rear occasionally. (I've been known to do the same when it comes to their stuff.)

As far as the subject of this thread: The wife wanted a G20, so we bought her that. But nothing else in the Infiniti lineup really appealed to me until the G35 came out. If the car didn't exist, I'd probably have traded for an Altima SE-R or Subaru Legacy 2.5GT Limited Wagon. The Acuras and Lexi of the world don't do a thing for me right now, and since I refuse to toss my money down the toilet by buying an American POS, one of those two might've been it.

The original Q45 (circa 1989) was an awesome machine for the money, though. Two hundred seventy-eight horsepower was a rarefied number back then. IIRC the LS400 and Q45 both stickered for $35K originally, and were sold at a loss for the first few years until Toyota and Nissan got a foothold in the market. The Infiniti was a relative flop; too sporty, too loud, too rambunctious compared to the Lexus. Everybody wanted to drive a hearse apparently.

And like someone mentioned earlier, Infiniti's rocks and trees advertising campaign will go down as one of the biggest mistakes in the history of automobiledom. Anybody remember this? Lexus extolled the engineering virtues of its cars with technical details and dazzling photographs, while Infiniti waxed on in Zen fashion about waterfalls. Nary a photo of any car in those ads. It's a wonder anyone bought an Infiniti that first year.