Just bought an '05 G35x for my son last night for his upcoming 16th birthday. I'm a big forum user for all my vehicles and hobbies, it's a great place to learn. Looking forward to learning more about this fine car.

Greg

 

Welcome to the group. Make sure he understands not to abuse that RWD in the cold weather coming!

 

Congratulations! These are great first cars because not only are they fun to drive, they are relatively straightforward to work on which makes for a good learning experience. All the info on this site makes things even easier since every maintenance item and performance mod has been documented many times over.

My advice to him is to save money for when things inevitably need replacing! Even a reliable car like this one will have issues as it gets up there in age. Mod are great, but learning the ins and outs of your car by caring for and maintaining it makes upgrades that much more rewarding.

 

Thanks to all. He chose the car because in Japan it's known as the Skyline which he has liked for some time. Urbanengineer - it's the "X" model so it's AWD. That was a necessity for where we live, it's not rural but it's unincorporated which means everyone else's streets are plowed and dry before we get dug out. Our family now is ALL either 4x4 or AWD so there's no reason to be snowed in! I agree about the straightforward design of the car, it's well thought out and well made, already making a list of things it needs which seems to be more maintenance items than anything else.