You know a long term take my time and casually

Look for something to you know find that perfect new car something to match the criteria. I'm looking for

Now we did take some suggestions and one of the things that came up

Goes to my mind and what your all suggestions were

Is the Maxima

Because I am looking for a sedan

I'm looking for something sporty something it has, you know, a reasonable amount of luxury features would be nice and

The maximum that does match a lot of those characteristics, so here we are today in the 2019 Maxima

This specific one and super test driving is the platinum trim, that would not be what how we're looking to get

It's too expensive but the driving dynamics of the car is the same

Pretty much on all the trims except for the S bar which is a little bit more hard edge a little bit sporty here

What I would probably be looking for is the SV or the S, though

Just depending on what type of discounts as far as why I'm interested in it

I already kind of addressed a little bit of that stuff. But one of the main reasons is actually that price

The sticker price is reasonable to start with but for those of you not familiar with

The current discounts and stuff of the Maxima they can be discounted a good amount for sure

Especially as towards the end of model years and whatnot

So definitely you can get a Maxima for a very appealing number. Let's just say so

Why not? Let's take it for a drive. Let's get

You know some good honest

driving time in

See, you know if it meets that criteria

I spoke about it in our reviews of different Nissan products and Infiniti is a vq

Engine is actually one of my favorite engines

I

Just love the way it sounds I like the raspy-ness to it

It's not the most water and it's not the most refined but I actually like the rough edges

Of it. I

Just find it appealing. It definitely sounds good a start up and

Like you said that's that's really appealing compared to some turbo fours, which have no sound sound kind of crappy

So that certainly is appealing on the worried side is the CVT

That's not ideal for sports sedan. It's also from wheel drive a front wheel drive only so you

May have concerns putting the power down

But anyways enough rambling so what we're gonna do basically is just give you all this

sneak peek fly-on-the-wall

Perspective we're gonna take it on a honest

Test drive just have an honest conversation with each other between us and you all can kind of

Be there along for the ride

Stirring is oddly hard to turn low speeds like really gonna crank it

Somehow do the driving but one thing that caught my attention was the fact it really does not have much

storage space in here

Enough place to stick your phone

Mystic stuff, I mean this is smaller than the Altima in terms of pretty much everything

Maybe not the exterior dimensions. But as far as the interior space is concerned has less rear legroom less trunk space

So it doesn't really surprise me honestly, but it is a nicer place to spend time

If the sound does not disappoint now I

Do exactly what I was hoping it would sound like and it does

Out on the road

And what I'm gonna be paying particular close attention to is the CBT

Yeah, I'm ready for ya

Rubberband and make sure there's no rubber band eNOS and see if that would be how much that would bother me

This car does not get super great fuel economy

20 in the city cuz I want to get the city that's not good 24 combined. That's not good

He's not recommends premium fuel. I would never put premium

If it's recommended, I mean most the times he Consumer Reports has tested this specific car and

Said that it's useless

The TLX in this car are two of the cars that really makes no sense to put premium fuel in because

They just use naturally aspirated v6 engines

That are the same as in other

Nissan products that just because this is more premium car does not I

Let's just say it doesn't make me feel like I'm having a more premium experience just because I'm a more putting premium gas

done

But you don't have to use so if you ever had this card on

Steering wheel is great

I really love that part

The steering itself

It's fast responding it's not

It's not the most feel

So it's kind of numb

so you lose a little bit of perspective aware of you where the wheels are placed, but

It definitely is fast enough

Now sport mode is I like the sport modes I would use that

You know definitely makes things more responsive really sharpens this car up

Most cars that

Rust I really am like it makes it makes a really noticeable difference

A lot of cars. It's just a button. You push make a

Puts a red trim on the gauges

Feel and feel like you're really sporting it up

But this is you know, you actually can notice the steering it gets it has gotten quite a bit heavier

Even faster feeling. I'm always do something. I'd like adaptive dampers or anything so you're not gonna like

get you know more tight on the suspension or anything, but

Still feels good and a throttle response is a lot more aggressive. The sound is amplified through the both speakers. I think this

Do you like this steering?

Yep

I like it. Like I said is it

You know, it's not the world's best scaring

Pasta you know the mazda6

They they the steering on that is probably better

but I also don't think this car has this much torque steer as

They have similar issue mounts of torque

This is down a little bit, but not a lot

However, this feels like it puts the power down a little bit more. Don't you think or maybe?

Yeah the last time I drove it was a little bit wet that place does play a factor of course. Yeah, there's a

moderate amount of body roll in the Platinum

And the you know the other luxury minded trims the SR

It does have a sport-tuned suspension. So to keep things firmer on the ride quality, but also tighter one

turning

Or anything because that

Seems pretty good. Yeah, I have a narrow body. So the seat is I recognize that

Almost no manufacturer's seat is gonna hold me

In place because it has to accommodate

for the average body size

It's comfortable see it is and it's very comfortable like I really like the ride of this car

But I keep going back to the mazda6 but that's one that we have driven

It definitely I think it probably has a nicer ride than the Mazda 6 it's very smooth

It feels a little bit of a class above that or it could just be that you know

There's really fantastic materials in here. That's one of the reasons that I like this car so much is that this cabin is

nice

But that's CVT how that is the biggest issue with this car so

Where you put the power down, oh, it sounds really good and is really fast. Yes very fast

now I

Am I will say now. I've been driving this a little bit. I can see how the transmission reacts and different

situations a

little disappointed in the

CVT in the sense that unlike the Altima

Which had a really convincing simulation this older xtronic CVT?

The simulation doesn't really play that big of a role

it doesn't seem to want to simulate the gear changes except under it like heavy throttle and even then it's only a

Visual and audible thing like it just changes the RPM. I can see it. Yeah

it's a little bit better than if it just, you know slammed up at the top but

But I'm not feeling any kick and for somebody like myself I you know, I like silly sporty

I can't manually shift no trace up to something else or it comes with paddle shifters

From my perspective you should have but even then

You know being a CVT having paddle shifters on a CVT it still never gonna be the same regardless

That does the CVT seems to be this cars at weak point. I mean, but I kind of knew that going in right

The question is, you know do the other things offset it that's the ultimate question

So I guess the question basically is

Is the 2019 Maxima a car that I would consider I

Would say yes if the price is right

I've would prefer probably something that has a little bit more of a

All-inclusive sporty package

You know certain aspects of this car are more luxury oriented. I can't afford the SR and

in the other trims the suspension tuning and stuff is a little softer, but

Nothing that I nothing that from this test-drive has maybe want to rule it out

But I'm still not sold enough to be continued to call off the search

like I said, I have someone that's gonna be thorough and

I'm going to drive all types of different things

Even things that you know, a lot of people might have assumed that I would not be interested. Yeah

It's something like this, but you have to experience something in person. You can't just I love YouTube videos and whatnot

I want everybody to watch our YouTube videos

but by all means if you're really interested in a car, don't just go by what

We say about a car go and experience it in person