How big does the car look in relation to your G. The pictures make the new G35 look like it's just as big as the M35/45...

 

It looked larger, not too much. Remember the way the old M45 looked wide? It had wide Pontiac sort of stance; sort of like that. It did look smaller than the M. You could see some hints of the 03-06 G in it but it is a dramatic change.

 

a couple of car manufacturers have proving grounds (test tracks) in mesa arizona (southeast of phoenix).... been to the GM proving grounds back in 1997 during a solar car qualifying event for student designed solar cars.... i would love to take my g out on the GM test oval....

 

completely believable... the new GTR was spotted there with pics to prove it.

 

Lucky you, TT......like Ian says, there are a few 'mules' around for the final adjustments and tests b4 production starts.

C.

 

geez...i think i will trade in my car when the new G comes out...

 

 

A repost from abother podst of mine:

A few weeks ago I was on Wilshire in West Los Angeles and spotted two of the new Altima being tested. Well today going down Wilshire I spotted another nissan I reconized, the nissan Teana. I reconized it after seeing the spy pics of the car posted during the NY auto show. Anyways it passed me going the other way, so I just pointed it out to my friend who didnt see it. Well after we got done at the hospital, we were heading back to UCLA. I look behind us and I see the car agian behind us and over one lane this time. Luckily the light turned red and he pulled up right next to us. I rolled down my window and yelled to him "is this the new nissan?" He replied this is a 2006 model. I ask him agian is this the new nissan coming out next year, I guess he knew I knew what was up and he tells me this a test car and they were running it along with two other silver cars. I replied "oh yeah, I saw those two altima's running around." He then tells me they're here to collect miles and "this is a hybrid". Well the light turns green and we each drive away, I resisted the urge to snap some pics since he was nice enough to talk to us and I only had my cell anyways. Base on what the guy told me I guess a hybrid is in the works for nissan and possibily there is going to be a new nissan, one positioned above the maxima.

 

I still have my hopes up that I will see him again. My digital camera is not leaving my car.

 

In general, it's good to keep a camera inside the car in case of some crazy shyt happening, even if it's to your own car. The coolest thing I've captured is a video of a brush fire on the other side of the highway I was on. The flames were like 30 ft in the air and they had to close the road down, crazy shyt. Also have random pictures of car accidents. Hopefully I won't ever have to take pics of my own car for the same reasons.

 

this thread is pointless without pics..

 

I just wanted people to know that there is at least one in the Phoenix area. That's not pointless but I do agree pics would have been nice.

 

Of course it's not pointless, you were just relaying that you saw an '07. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

 

My friend works for Mercedes as an engineer. Not only do they get free gas and insurance, part of their job is to rotate the pool of new mercedes every 2 weeks so they can find out first hand whats good and whats bad about each and every Mercedes. He was driving around in the new 2007 S600 last spring. Welllllll before the release date.

 

Those are the perks for working with a manufacturer. Imagine how the reps for Kia feel.