^Interesting how you went from all those muscle type cars to the Infiniti!

 

4dr, RWD, 6speed

yumm

 

Practical and stylish.
Sedans body lines are well styled. Sedans include rear headroom & real trunk space which the coupes lack. Same interior sport/luxury for both.
Early G35 sedans when "cleanly modified" are true stand-out cars.
"Coupe appeal" is "stock sleek" yet becomes diluted at the curb and on the road in my point of view because of the high number of units sold.

 

Yeah, I really felt like it was time for a change. The last Monte was my toy, and got driven barely 1K miles a year. It had a ton of mods - built 5.7 with a fuel-injection swap (used to be carbed), 5-speed manual trans swap, big brake swap, Eibach springs and Bilstein shocks, and a bunch of other stuff. I couldn't justify having it as a garage ornament any longer, so I sold it after I bought the G. I still like to tinker though, so I'll mod the G a bit as time and $$ allow. So far I added the mods listed in my sig, and eventually I'll get a plenum spacer and hopefully a set of coupe 18s when my tires need replacing. I can't leave anything stock.

 

LOL.. i had passengers from the day i drove.. thats why i got the coupe!

I've been a nissan kid growing up and always wanted RWD and a V6 MT in a coupe. I wanted the ability to drive people if needed.

 

because it is a premium package that came with a nismo kit and a factory installed wing

 

+1. 'Nuff said


bryman

 

I saw an ad for a light blue '05 6MT G35 coupe and thought it was one of the most beautiful cars I'd ever seen, so that's what I really wanted at first. However, in a couple of years, my wife and I plan on having at least one kid. I was still fine with the coupe. The wife? Thought I was being immature and selfish, but she said she wouldn't hate me for it. In exchange, I told her I would give the sedan a fair shake and wound up looking at a silver '05 6MT sedan. It was a better price, drove like a dream, and the guy seemed to be trustworthy and to have taken good care of the car. So I had my mechanic check it out. After getting his okay, that's what I got. And I have only regretted it one time (when a duplicate of the blue coupe I'd seen in the ad went by in the opposite lane). Since then I've really come to appreciate the space, easiness of access to the back seats, and lack of attention from the police. And the car is still quite the athlete. Wins all around.

 

Kid in a car seat and had a 2000 Eclipse. Wife had minivan. So we'd just swap cars and whoever had the kid took the van. Then another kid came. Put car seat one time in Eclipse. I had eyed the coupe prior to getting married so went with sedan (it was cheaper too).

 

Oh, and the wife thought I should get a second minivan!

 

Sorry sedan brothers, there's no doubt the coupe looks the best in stock form. It's not even the same ball game. 6.5 years ago, I had just had a son and there's NO WAY you're fitting a rear facing seat in the back and getting your kid in it unless you're double jointed everywhere and the front passenger either can't have legs or needs to be shorter than 5' 5". I also needed the room to haul all the kiddo gear.

A sedan can look amazing, but it's going to cost you more in the long run than the coupe. Most coupes come with good looking, wider and taller 18s, and sit lower to the ground. All the body panels are body colored. All a coupe really needs is a nice set of rims and maybe a fractional drop. For my sedan, just to get it to look good has cost me thousands:

18" rims and tires - $1200
Aero bumper - $1000
350z/coupe springs and Z shocks - $250
Stillen rear valence - $250 (painted by me for $60)
Painted lower sills - $150 (painted by me)

That's $3,000, right there and most people would have to spend a lot more on the paint work than myself.

What I do like about my sedan is that it's rare, in most parts of the country, to see a properly modded sedan. Sure, there are numerous sedan out there riding around at stock ride heights and stupid looking chrome rims, but those aren't modded, IMO. My car turns lots of heads, either because people like the way it looks or maybe they think it looks like crap

Now that both my kids are in foward facing or booster seats, I wouldn't hessitate pulling the trigger on an 03/04 coupe 6MT if I were to wreck my 03 sedan.

 

^Sorry Dave, but IMO the sedan looks just as good stock, especially a second generation sport model. First gen bone stock sedans turn my head just as much as any other G. But I look at them all. lol.

 

Dave B, some of your numbers are a little off. If you got an 05+, you wouldn't have to paint the lower sills, and $1200 for Coupe 18's ignores the fact that your car does need tires. I bought winter tires for my stock 17's and put summer tires on my Coupe 18's. Yes, I had to pay about $1000 for the 18's and tires, but it'll be twice as long before I have to buy tires again (50,000+ miles), and I get the benefit of season-specific tires instead of two sets of generic, average performance all-seasons. Besides, the Coupe isn't all that great looking, especially from the back end. It's only advantage (IMO) is the availability of projectors.

 

^+1! Granted, it's not completely up-to-date, but my progress thread shows you don't have to break the bank to make a first gen sedan look nice as long as you're willing to shop around and wait for the right deal to come your way.

I bought my 19's brand new on closeout for $440.
The tires brand new were ~$1000

The tires on my 17's were bald, and I would have spent around $600 replacing them...

So that's around an $850 difference.

If someone were to pick up used wheel/tire pkg off here or craigslist, they could probably net an even better value.

 

My Coupe 18's were $325 shipped (from the Marketplace), and the Bridgestone RE760 Sports where around $700. The wheels are true, but a little rashy, something I hope to fix one of these days.