@@allentoyokawa9068It’s doomsday for Infiniti now 😂😂😂 LOL 😝. What are you talking about? All of their cars are now discontinued after 2024 after the remaining 2024 Q50 inventory is sold. They have a lackluster and outdated QX50 and QX55 compact crossover with a friggin’ CVT. The QX60 is okay I guess, somewhat attractive. The all new 2025 QX80 is a joke. The refreshed 2025 Lincoln Navigator and 2025 Cadillac Escalade put it to shame. Infiniti needs a total overhaul immediately! 2003 - 2018 were the best years for Infiniti. They need some desperate help to change things.
@allentoyokawa9068 LOL the Q50 aka their sedan is canceled for 2025, leaving a lineup full of garbage SUV's outsold by every other SUV. How is that the "Golden Age"? LOL
@@sketchpv3080 14.3 stock.13.9 with very sticky tires and mods could be done but not stock,I owned 3 of them lol.Back when Infinity cared about their customers and what they really wanted
I owned an original '03 G35 coupe 6MT. It's still my favorite car that I ever owned. Selling after 13 years was one of the hardest things I ever did lol. But at least I found it a good new home. The kid who bought it still loves on it.
@@705toys6 Nothing. It was my last performance car and my last stick shift. I just drive a "transportation appliance" now, some practical thing. Nothing with passion. I became an old man. Thanks for depressing me lol.
The similar looking 2008 Nissan Altima coupe was a very affordable alternative. Both cars looked similar from the side profile. That's the car I could afford.
@@Jorge-Tamacas They are known to have head gasket issues tho. Witch blows my mind in this era of automotive engineering. My favorite recent idea comes from Honda. Liquid silicone head gasket on the earth dreams 4cy. 10th Gen Civic, ect. Feel free to look up those results.
These cars sound brutal without the stock exhaust or the ART pipes exhaust, like tractors, darn good sports car though, 6 speed cars got expensive though.
I saw (heard) one like that just yesterday. How can anything with an engine sound so awful? And how can anybody think it sounds good and do it on purpose??? It's not just that it's loud it's that it has this horribly annoying high-pitched piercing broken-sounding noise to it.
@@GlennC789 Hows how much effort Nissan went into the exhaust design, such a sweet sound from the factory, so horrible when messed with. This engineer came up with the apparently, only aftermarket exhaust that sounds good on the 350z/G35, its a fascinating design.
I modify all my cars….but never with the powertrain. I’ll do suspension work(usually stiffening), and improved brakes. But I live in the mountains and handling is the game. Factory is usually lacking in those subjects for my intended use. Would never know my cars have been changed, until you drive them. The body kits and stuff…yeah pretty lame in most cases lol. The loud exhausts are not needed unless on the track with other cars. For most of these cars, those exhaust systems don’t add any real performance to the system. Unless your like adding more air and fuel as well…which is usually just building a ticking time bomb of a car hahaha
Tired of those annoying edgars and their adjacents with quema cuh haircuts. Ruining VQs, Mopars, and GM trucks. At best 20-30 percent of them are the well mannered exception.
This was my favorite car in the world back when I was an elementary schooler and they were brand-new. A guy living in our apartment complex had one with a loud exhaust and it was the coolest!
Absolutely loved these when they came out. They looked and sounded so great. Boy that test driver looks like he came right from the 90’s with those clothes…😆
2005 was when they updated the G35 with a mid-cycle refresh, gave it better brakes, cleaner styling, improved interior materials with real aluminum trim and other nice stuff. I would choose the 2005 or newer models if I were going to get a V35 generation Infiniti G for sure.
@@gedaman I bought it without knowing anything about the cars at the time... I just kind of got lucky to get the refreshed model. If I would have done some research first I would have gotten a 6 speed with the rev up motor, still though, I liked the car. Reliable, comfortable, easy peasy to kick the backend out when I wanted to. I've since graduated to a Q50 AWD 3.7... it's nice too, but the 05 was definitely a bit more sports car, the Q50 is more a cruiser.
@@SlowSpyder I’ve driven the Q50 with the 3.7L VQ V6, the Mercedes-Benz 2.0L turbocharged I-4, and the 3.0L turbocharged VR V6. I like the 3.0L turbocharged V6 engine the best. Infiniti made the Q50 ride softer to appeal to a wider audience. It’s still a fun and sporty car to drive. It uses the same platform as the V36 2007 - 2013 Infiniti G, but it was better there supposedly. All of the Nissan Skyline models V35, V36, or V37 sold as Infiniti G or Q50/Q60 are fun to drive. You really can’t go wrong. I will always have a special memory of driving the 2005 Infiniti G35x sedan when it was new. That car was just so much fun to drive 20 years ago.
@@gedaman The only car I drove before buying the 15 Q50 was an 18 Caddy ATS with the 2.0T motor. I thought the Q was much better as a driver's car (though I'd probably like an ATS-V...heh). I've yet to try the Red Sport, but I'm always checking out Autotrader...
These were way ahead of the competition in their day and what a bargain price! The first gen Lexus SC300 was around $45K base price in 2000 while this undercut it by $16K three years later. Granted, this car has a much cheaper interior and no legendary JZ engine but still the value was amazing. Most of them have been destroyed by young people because the 350Z it is based on was more expensive in the used car market so people went to the Infiniti G to modify and butcher. I have not see a nice stock one of these in over 10 years minimum.
Yep, the Infiniti Q50 was the beginning of the downfall for Infiniti. I really hope that they can bounce back soon possibly with an all new EV lineup just like Jaguar is planning on doing for 2026 (Jaguar has enough cars manufactured to skip the entire 2025 model year).
@@gedamanThe Q50 was developed as a G37, G22d, and G35h from 2007 to 2012, but those trademarks were abandoned abruptly by JdN in September 2012 and he Q-ed everything, in new trademark filings during September 2012. It was cryptic when they teased a new sedan in early December 2012, but not a new G by name. A week later, it all came to light. Q/QX renaming was leaked with those random trademark filings that September. In January 2013, Q50 was revealed. Essentially a mini Infiniti M in execution, which made it more comfort orientated, by fell out of favor with the enthusiast customer base. As much I don't want to hate Ghosn, it was mostly his decisions to cut investment in Infiniti in favor of BEV development and growing Nissan brand volume in the early 2010s-mid 2010s. The South African had the same issues with both Infiniti and Cadillac. Stingy parent companies with unrelenting CEOs in Ghosn and Barra, who weren't ready to go to toe to toe with the German trio head on. JdN wanted power packed turbo 6s, plus he wanted new V8s for Infiniti. He was told in no uncertain terms by Ghosn, Nissan V8 development had ended after the VK56 and that the VR series V6 would solely be its replacement. I knew once the Titan and Patrol generations ended, V8 Nissans would be gone. For now the Australian Patrol will keep the 5.6, but know that Johan did fight for a new V8 to be developed.
Yeah there's a silver one here in Moab... they just could NOT leave it alone - in < 1 year they did what they do: removed the rear bumper - primered it black, then put it back on there... cheap springs with poor camber... and of course - the car is NEVER washed - "Don't have time for that dude bro/bruh - busy puttin out duh vibe dube bro/bruh..." One day I saw the guy that drives it - typical conformist checklist items: 1 - confused / not all there / "somethings wrong bro!" expression 2 - flat billed hat 3 - black hoodie
I had one of these in the late 2000s. It was such a fun, enjoyable car to drive, and fairly reliable (other than some electrical gremlins). Took it on a 2500 mile road trip with my wife and is still one of the best trips I've ever had.
@@gedamanAmen, I remember when middle aged boomer women even bought these cars, like a lady who had one in blue in 2004 at my cliffside Catholic church.
@@nwezetx1 Somewhat wealthy middle aged people didn’t exactly know what they were getting when they bought an Infiniti G35 or Cadillac CTS back then, haha 😜.
Had an 05 sedan 5AT, then 07 g35s 5AT sedan and currently 13 sedan 6mt, all stock, except upgrade sub in trunk. Handling of the 05 was better. The 6MT sedan is unique and fun.
The prototype R35 Nissan GT-R was a V35 Nissan Skyline Coupe/Infiniti G35 Coupe. The R35 Nissan GT-R used a modified version of the Nissan FM platform used in the Infiniti G, FX, EX, M and Nissan 350Z. I remember seeing the spy photographs of the prototype R35 Nissan GT-R in car magazines with a silver V35 Nissan Skyline Coupe driving around the Nurburgring.
I really wish Nissan/Infiniti's general quality hadn't gone to crap. I owned many, including one of the original Sentra SE-R's and two Infiniti G20's, and they were great cars that wouldn't let you down. The G35 looked great on paper and testers said great things about it, but the interior didn't hold up, especially the junk-quality leather, and they seem to have mostly died early deaths or gotten into the hands of lowest-common-denominator type owners.
The 2003 - 2004 model years were particularly bad with bad brakes that would wear out very fast. There was almost a class action lawsuit against Nissan over the brakes which is why Nissan improved the brakes for the 2005 model year when they gave the Infiniti G35 a mid-cycle refresh. The interior was upgraded too with higher quality materials including real aluminum trim instead of the cheap silver painted plastic trim pieces.
Getting a 03 g35 coupe 6spd manual in 2 days. I’m hoping to push some boost it in the future but I love how it sounds NA. Thank you for this cool video.
Hub and I bought a 2004 G35 coupe in Caribbean Blue and she lasted until 7/5/2019, with remnants of her blown out on 196 North at the Saugatuck exit…best car. She got us out of a couple of scary winter driving moments for sure. ❤
Nissan has really lost its way. Now they need money to fix their problems but need their problems fixed to get the money. Sadly, I don’t have a lot of hope for their future.
Had a custom made 05 G35 Coupe 6MT. First one in Cali I think. It was so fun to drive but didn't felt the same after some repairs. Had a family so I had to get rid of it. I still miss it from time to time tho. Not sure if I would get it again now but looking back at it now I should've gotten a used 03 M45 instead back then. The body line on that car is crazy nice. I wonder why I didn't see that back then. 😊
Hardly anyone bought the 2003 - 2004 Infiniti M45 (Nissan Cedric/Gloria). It was a total flop and not really made with America in mind sort of like the 1990 Infiniti M30 (Nissan Leopard). Sometimes Nissan just rebadges any Japanese Nissan model as an Infiniti expecting easy success and it blows up on them.
I remember when this car came out. I had an e39 1999 bmw 540i. My friend just picked this up for $35-36k fully loaded. Hell of a car and it finally dethroned the 3 series both the sedan and coupe until the e90 came out with the 335i. That g35 gave me 282hp 300+ torque 540i a problem,I couldn’t pull on him until I did a few bolt ons. I later picked up a brand new e60 550i in 07 and the god damn G37 sedans were fast too,a g37S 6spd had no issue keeping up with my car at lower speeds,it was demoralizing. Again g35 coupe or sedan for $35k fully loaded was smoking an e46 330i sedan or coupe that was $50k+ for a 330ci with the zhp performance package,insanity. The G37 was great too but 335i was slightly ahead in performance this time and N54 is a legendary motor,so is a N55 in its own regard… still love the V motors in Infiniti,good stuff and I think Infiniti was the only Japanese brand to take on bmw and beat it
It's unfortunate these became theft targets (be careful of you have one) Infinitis have probably the greatest cost, reliability, performance, styling ratio of any used vehicles.
One of the nice things about them was they did, as John stated, run on the same wheelbase as the sedan, so they actually had a decent back seat, and a large trunk.
I had a 2002 G20 sport and would drive a g35 loaner while in service. The g20 had it flaws, but it was lighter weight and had some turbo options that would have shook up the segment. It was a great car and time for infiniti.
Almost unbelievable how far the Infiniti brand has fallen. They were on top of their game in the early 2000s, even giving the Germans a run for their money. Today? Utterly forgettable. A case study in abysmal product management.
We can thank Carlos Ghosn and his thuggery ways. Literally put Nissan/Infiniti a decade behind the car market. Luckily there is hope, given their remarkable products they're putting out as of late. I just hope they don't give up on the car game since the Q50 is now gone. A sweet car that just needed some modernizing.
@@hellkitty1014What “remarkable products” is Infiniti or Nissan putting out lately? They’ve given up entirely on cars with the discontinuation of the Infiniti Q50 after 2024 and the all new 2025 Infiniti QX80 is a joke compared to the refreshed 2025 Cadillac Escalade and 2025 Lincoln Navigator. Nissan will be discontinuing the Altima soon as well. Nissan is basically on life support now. Carlos Ghosn turned the company around 25 years ago and then made a dash.
@gedaman Nissan of the 90s/early 2000s were vastly superior to thr crap Ghosn put out. Everything went CVT and Infiniti was left to languish for years. But cars like the new Murano, Armada, and QX80 are very competitive against their competition. Even the current Rogue and Pathfinder are solid entrants. What's with the doom and gloom??
Such a nice car, too bad many of them are now molested with shitty mods like trumpet exhausts, crappy after market wheels and being thrown around at street car takeovers.
Best model Infiniti ever built … honestly should’ve kept my G35S in my avi, because I sadly decided to leave Infiniti and never return for any of their other models, aside from the FX50S that was unfortunately discontinued as well smh
INFINITI has always made really good vehicles for the money. It’s a shame they aren’t making any more cars and only SUVs/crossovers, but they’re far from the only brand doing so. You can’t blame them for only making what people want to buy, but it is a shame great cars like the G series sedans and coupes as well as the Q series sedans and coupes are gone now. I loved my old I35, loved my G37, and love my Q50. They’ve all been great cars and with a few basic mods outperform cars that cost nearly twice the MSRP.
@@gedamanBlaming the Q50 introduction in 2013, ignores some other issues with the brand by 2014-15. Ghosn handicapped upward momentum of Infiniti in the 2010s.
Peak Infiniti / Nissan! Though the RZ34 is pretty awesome for what it is as the last "affordable" true JDM twin turbo sports coupe. I just wish Inifiniti would make an upgraded interior version of it (like 2025 QX80 level minus the crazy amount of screens) and keeping the hshift as the base option then transplanting the R35 GT-R DCT in the back for a 2WD upper option.
These cars were 🔥. Unfortunately 75% of the people that bought them destroyed them because they don't know how to drive & they redlined them every chance they got. Which is why i don't see them anymore.
@@josephthomas8318 None that I'm aware of. But if people took the time to read their owner's & service manuals they wouldn't have had any issues with em. We saw how most people drove them lol. We remember lol.
@@user-sk1eh3pg6j75% of who? Mostly not the first owners. Plenty in the Sunbelt still exist, the clapped out and cigarette filled playthings of Edgars in Texas, NM, and AZ with trashy mods.
Infiniti had such a bright future...... in 2003.
Yes!
they were building cars that enthusiasts wanted
For what it’s worth, 2020 QX80 has been super reliable and very well built….
@@hertzair1186 Does it have the CVT?
@hertzair1186 it's already depreciated over 50% congratulations 😂😂😂 $40k+ gone forever burned for a obese junk SUV
Golden age of Infiniti, arguably their best car
UMM THE GOLDEN AGE IS NOW TROLL
@@allentoyokawa9068 how???
@@allentoyokawa9068It’s doomsday for Infiniti now 😂😂😂 LOL 😝. What are you talking about? All of their cars are now discontinued after 2024 after the remaining 2024 Q50 inventory is sold. They have a lackluster and outdated QX50 and QX55 compact crossover with a friggin’ CVT. The QX60 is okay I guess, somewhat attractive. The all new 2025 QX80 is a joke. The refreshed 2025 Lincoln Navigator and 2025 Cadillac Escalade put it to shame. Infiniti needs a total overhaul immediately! 2003 - 2018 were the best years for Infiniti. They need some desperate help to change things.
1st gen Q45 was Betta, first USA vehicle with active suspension option . Only full size luxury with super HICAS 4 wheels steering
@allentoyokawa9068 LOL the Q50 aka their sedan is canceled for 2025, leaving a lineup full of garbage SUV's outsold by every other SUV. How is that the "Golden Age"? LOL
The head-turning exhaust note was so sexy to me. Loved me some Infiniti in the early to mid 2000’s.
The stock exhaust note was just right. Nowadays all you usually hear is some obnoxious catless trumpets smh.
Sounds like a kazoo and was the subject of many jokes
I thought they sounded great for a v6
It sounds terrible, like as in ear piercing, can tell the car from blocks away bad.
@@TheMW2informerThat’s the children of the corn you hear, not how it’s supposed to sound.
Perhaps it’s just me but it’s so disappointing when 0-60 and quarter-mile times aren’t included.
Same it was like a 14.6
@@kyoakland Peehaps 14.6 with the auto but I think I recall 13.9-14.2 with the manual.
I think it could do 0 - 60 MPH in about 5.9 seconds. The follow up V36 generation Infiniti G37 sport coupe could do 0 - 60 MPH in about 5.4 seconds.
@@sketchpv3080 14.3 stock.13.9 with very sticky tires and mods could be done but not stock,I owned 3 of them lol.Back when Infinity cared about their customers and what they really wanted
Easy enough to Google. Motorweek is always behind the best times anyways on their tests
Still have mine. Brembos, 6 speed, 18" chromes, and only 88k miles.
Same. single turbo 6mt 77k
Keep it forever. Great cars!
PLEASE let me know if you ever want to sell! Haha I didn’t have the budget for these when new as I was 16 then haha
@@dentonarmstrong7470 $30,000
@@drucifer83314i love my g35 is a lot fun to drive
I owned an original '03 G35 coupe 6MT. It's still my favorite car that I ever owned. Selling after 13 years was one of the hardest things I ever did lol. But at least I found it a good new home. The kid who bought it still loves on it.
What did you replace it with?
@@705toys6 Nothing. It was my last performance car and my last stick shift. I just drive a "transportation appliance" now, some practical thing. Nothing with passion. I became an old man. Thanks for depressing me lol.
@@kojo62 it doesn't have to be like that, treat yourself :-)
I feel old now, dang it. These are still "new" cars to me.
This and FX crossover from this era really knocked it out of the park.
These look good even by today's standards.
Yup - because everything has gone full since: "U G L Y you ain't got no alibi!!!"
The similar looking 2008 Nissan Altima coupe was a very affordable alternative. Both cars looked similar from the side profile. That's the car I could afford.
Too bad these cars are tainted by today's youth with terrible wheels, clapped out exhaust, and Picasso-style mismatched colored panels.
Bingo
20+ years later lol 😂
@@daison96 facts
My son's has been repainted and does have a loud exhaust, but he still has the OG rims but they were painted black by the prior owner.
All the ones I see are not good looking
say what you want about the current batch of owners, but infiniti did a great job with the design. still a good looking car.
Yep. For something designed in 1999-2000, the coupe came out looking timeless.
For some reason I always liked the G35 Coupe more than the 350Z. Of course I would go for the 6-speed manual
@@Jorge-Tamacas probably because the 350z had the ugliest door handles ever conceived
Me too!
The Z got annoying over the years.
The G still looks very nice.
G37 🎯
I liked them both, but I prefer the Infiniti G35 for its sharper styling and afterburner style taillights. They both drive very nicely.
The G35 looks better. Better looking interior too.
@@Jorge-Tamacas
They are known to have head gasket issues tho.
Witch blows my mind in this era of automotive engineering.
My favorite recent idea comes from Honda. Liquid silicone head gasket on the earth dreams 4cy. 10th Gen Civic, ect.
Feel free to look up those results.
My 05' G35x is still pushin'💪
I absolutely loved this car when it came out and I still love it to this day. An absolute slam dunk in the design and performance department.
The G35 has aged so well. Seeing a low mileage clean example of the sport/aero model always stops me in my tracks. 👀
Every g35 owner I knew in the 2000’s had a goatee. The edgier BMW 3 series owner type.
Once owned by a humble cool suburban dad, Now is terrorizing the streets.
now straight piped by a 20 yr old with a loose automatic transmission, worst sound EVER
People need to stop removing the resonators Everytime it gets removed it’s terrible
These cars sound brutal without the stock exhaust or the ART pipes exhaust, like tractors, darn good sports car though, 6 speed cars got expensive though.
And then taken to a sideshow/takeover
I saw (heard) one like that just yesterday. How can anything with an engine sound so awful? And how can anybody think it sounds good and do it on purpose???
It's not just that it's loud it's that it has this horribly annoying high-pitched piercing broken-sounding noise to it.
@@GlennC789 Hows how much effort Nissan went into the exhaust design, such a sweet sound from the factory, so horrible when messed with. This engineer came up with the apparently, only aftermarket exhaust that sounds good on the 350z/G35, its a fascinating design.
These G35/G37 coupe and sedan are cool when stock, when people modify them they are annoying.
Most modded cars are annoying
Yep. This is back when Nissan was taking a quality control nose dive and adding bad driving drift punks modifier doesn’t help.
You're right
Most people who modify cars are annoying.
They have terrible taste and they think they can better what's already been done.
I modify all my cars….but never with the powertrain. I’ll do suspension work(usually stiffening), and improved brakes. But I live in the mountains and handling is the game. Factory is usually lacking in those subjects for my intended use. Would never know my cars have been changed, until you drive them. The body kits and stuff…yeah pretty lame in most cases lol. The loud exhausts are not needed unless on the track with other cars. For most of these cars, those exhaust systems don’t add any real performance to the system. Unless your like adding more air and fuel as well…which is usually just building a ticking time bomb of a car hahaha
They still look good today. When Infiniti was a good brand.
In coupe or sedan form the G35 was an awesome car!
Owned a 6MT for 10 years, miss that car.
Bought the 4 door 6MT in 2003. Lighter than the coupe. One of the best cars I’ve ever owned. My son now owns it and is all original.
the takeover special
Ugh 🤦
Tired of those annoying edgars and their adjacents with quema cuh haircuts. Ruining VQs, Mopars, and GM trucks. At best 20-30 percent of them are the well mannered exception.
@@nwezetx1They love burning down Camaros!
@@Wafflecombo54 Yup, 100%.
Undervalued cars❤
Keep them like that. We don't want to pay premium prices for a used 2003 G35
This was my favorite car in the world back when I was an elementary schooler and they were brand-new. A guy living in our apartment complex had one with a loud exhaust and it was the coolest!
Absolutely loved these when they came out. They looked and sounded so great. Boy that test driver looks like he came right from the 90’s with those clothes…😆
Well, this was 2002. Early 2000s life was a temporary extension of the late 90s and some folks take years to update their fashion habits.
I had an 05 auto. Loved the exhaust note of that car, one of the best ever.
2005 was when they updated the G35 with a mid-cycle refresh, gave it better brakes, cleaner styling, improved interior materials with real aluminum trim and other nice stuff. I would choose the 2005 or newer models if I were going to get a V35 generation Infiniti G for sure.
@@gedaman I bought it without knowing anything about the cars at the time... I just kind of got lucky to get the refreshed model. If I would have done some research first I would have gotten a 6 speed with the rev up motor, still though, I liked the car. Reliable, comfortable, easy peasy to kick the backend out when I wanted to. I've since graduated to a Q50 AWD 3.7... it's nice too, but the 05 was definitely a bit more sports car, the Q50 is more a cruiser.
@@SlowSpyder I’ve driven the Q50 with the 3.7L VQ V6, the Mercedes-Benz 2.0L turbocharged I-4, and the 3.0L turbocharged VR V6. I like the 3.0L turbocharged V6 engine the best. Infiniti made the Q50 ride softer to appeal to a wider audience. It’s still a fun and sporty car to drive. It uses the same platform as the V36 2007 - 2013 Infiniti G, but it was better there supposedly. All of the Nissan Skyline models V35, V36, or V37 sold as Infiniti G or Q50/Q60 are fun to drive. You really can’t go wrong. I will always have a special memory of driving the 2005 Infiniti G35x sedan when it was new. That car was just so much fun to drive 20 years ago.
@@gedaman The only car I drove before buying the 15 Q50 was an 18 Caddy ATS with the 2.0T motor. I thought the Q was much better as a driver's car (though I'd probably like an ATS-V...heh). I've yet to try the Red Sport, but I'm always checking out Autotrader...
Here we are over 20 years later and most of these cars have been beat to s*** and end up at sideshows being destroyed
These were way ahead of the competition in their day and what a bargain price! The first gen Lexus SC300 was around $45K base price in 2000 while this undercut it by $16K three years later. Granted, this car has a much cheaper interior and no legendary JZ engine but still the value was amazing. Most of them have been destroyed by young people because the 350Z it is based on was more expensive in the used car market so people went to the Infiniti G to modify and butcher. I have not see a nice stock one of these in over 10 years minimum.
I always thought the longer wheelbase made for a better car than the Z.
This car still looks so good 20 years later. That tells you everything.
Such a good car, especially with a 6 speed
Infiniti's glory days. Then they just had to put a Q in every damn car they make.
Yep, the Infiniti Q50 was the beginning of the downfall for Infiniti. I really hope that they can bounce back soon possibly with an all new EV lineup just like Jaguar is planning on doing for 2026 (Jaguar has enough cars manufactured to skip the entire 2025 model year).
@@gedamanThe Q50 was developed as a G37, G22d, and G35h from 2007 to 2012, but those trademarks were abandoned abruptly by JdN in September 2012 and he Q-ed everything, in new trademark filings during September 2012.
It was cryptic when they teased a new sedan in early December 2012, but not a new G by name. A week later, it all came to light. Q/QX renaming was leaked with those random trademark filings that September.
In January 2013, Q50 was revealed. Essentially a mini Infiniti M in execution, which made it more comfort orientated, by fell out of favor with the enthusiast customer base.
As much I don't want to hate Ghosn, it was mostly his decisions to cut investment in Infiniti in favor of BEV development and growing Nissan brand volume in the early 2010s-mid 2010s.
The South African had the same issues with both Infiniti and Cadillac. Stingy parent companies with unrelenting CEOs in Ghosn and Barra, who weren't ready to go to toe to toe with the German trio head on.
JdN wanted power packed turbo 6s, plus he wanted new V8s for Infiniti. He was told in no uncertain terms by Ghosn, Nissan V8 development had ended after the VK56 and that the VR series V6 would solely be its replacement.
I knew once the Titan and Patrol generations ended, V8 Nissans would be gone. For now the Australian Patrol will keep the 5.6, but know that Johan did fight for a new V8 to be developed.
See the G35 actually looks really good, were just used to seeing then clapped out beyond belief
Yeah there's a silver one here in Moab... they just could NOT leave it alone - in < 1 year they did what they do: removed the rear bumper - primered it black, then put it back on there... cheap springs with poor camber... and of course - the car is NEVER washed - "Don't have time for that dude bro/bruh - busy puttin out duh vibe dube bro/bruh..."
One day I saw the guy that drives it - typical conformist checklist items:
1 - confused / not all there / "somethings wrong bro!" expression
2 - flat billed hat
3 - black hoodie
Still have my 2006 G35 coupe with a full Motordyne ART pipes and exhaust! Best aftermarket exhaust for these cars.
Fast Intentions is a nice competitor - I like their CF covered mufflers > the 1995 fart can look...
I remember G35s were everywhere back in the mid 2000's.
I had one of these in the late 2000s. It was such a fun, enjoyable car to drive, and fairly reliable (other than some electrical gremlins). Took it on a 2500 mile road trip with my wife and is still one of the best trips I've ever had.
The only car company that gave the BMW 3 series a run for its money and made them shaking in their boots.
Fat chance
This isn’t a CTS though…
The G35 was a nice Japanese car. It wasn't a BMW 3. I drove one when it came out and it felt crude by comparison. The interiors were tacky as well.
Motorweek is always going to be my fav!
Now driven by edgars
Huh?
Driven by who?
What's an Edgar?
@@Blue-moon12 Hispanic kids who have a certain haircut.
And a room temperature iq
These have the best sounding exhaust
Hahaha they sound horrible only people who own them think think they sound cool
@@Cinnamon535 never owned one
@@Cinnamon535Only the modified G35 sounds bad. The stock exhaust on these cars sounds excellent.
@@gedamanAmen, I remember when middle aged boomer women even bought these cars, like a lady who had one in blue in 2004 at my cliffside Catholic church.
@@nwezetx1 Somewhat wealthy middle aged people didn’t exactly know what they were getting when they bought an Infiniti G35 or Cadillac CTS back then, haha 😜.
This car is legendary, who owns one is lucky.
Yeeeah!
2003-2010 was bar none the best years for Infiniti and the era I think we all miss 😢
One of the best engine sounds ever!!
Had an 05 sedan 5AT, then 07 g35s 5AT sedan and currently 13 sedan 6mt, all stock, except upgrade sub in trunk.
Handling of the 05 was better. The 6MT sedan is unique and fun.
I absolutely love these and the 3.5 Altima coupes. The early-mid 2000s gtr concept was wrapped in a similar body style
The prototype R35 Nissan GT-R was a V35 Nissan Skyline Coupe/Infiniti G35 Coupe. The R35 Nissan GT-R used a modified version of the Nissan FM platform used in the Infiniti G, FX, EX, M and Nissan 350Z. I remember seeing the spy photographs of the prototype R35 Nissan GT-R in car magazines with a silver V35 Nissan Skyline Coupe driving around the Nurburgring.
It’s becoming hard these days to find a clean one
I really wish Nissan/Infiniti's general quality hadn't gone to crap. I owned many, including one of the original Sentra SE-R's and two Infiniti G20's, and they were great cars that wouldn't let you down. The G35 looked great on paper and testers said great things about it, but the interior didn't hold up, especially the junk-quality leather, and they seem to have mostly died early deaths or gotten into the hands of lowest-common-denominator type owners.
The 2003 - 2004 model years were particularly bad with bad brakes that would wear out very fast. There was almost a class action lawsuit against Nissan over the brakes which is why Nissan improved the brakes for the 2005 model year when they gave the Infiniti G35 a mid-cycle refresh. The interior was upgraded too with higher quality materials including real aluminum trim instead of the cheap silver painted plastic trim pieces.
Infiniti has such a great feature… 20 plus years ago they’re still the same look and motor.
Getting a 03 g35 coupe 6spd manual in 2 days. I’m hoping to push some boost it in the future but I love how it sounds NA. Thank you for this cool video.
One of my favorite cars of all time.
I thought they had the most perfect interiors. Great looks. Finally found a low mileage '05 Lexus IS300 that I bought. Would still like one of these.
Hub and I bought a 2004 G35 coupe in Caribbean Blue and she lasted until 7/5/2019, with remnants of her blown out on 196 North at the Saugatuck exit…best car. She got us out of a couple of scary winter driving moments for sure. ❤
I remember the annoying Infiniti exhaust sounds of this area. This was one of them.
*era
Absolutely loved my 2005 sedan 6speed with the Rev up motor.
Nissan has really lost its way. Now they need money to fix their problems but need their problems fixed to get the money. Sadly, I don’t have a lot of hope for their future.
Pov: You own this car and feel old 😅
Goes to show the current generation. Shame they rather wrap cars around poles than enjoy the car for what it is.
Truthfully the G35 coupe is top 5 best platform for the price
Had a custom made 05 G35 Coupe 6MT. First one in Cali I think. It was so fun to drive but didn't felt the same after some repairs. Had a family so I had to get rid of it. I still miss it from time to time tho. Not sure if I would get it again now but looking back at it now I should've gotten a used 03 M45 instead back then. The body line on that car is crazy nice. I wonder why I didn't see that back then. 😊
Hardly anyone bought the 2003 - 2004 Infiniti M45 (Nissan Cedric/Gloria). It was a total flop and not really made with America in mind sort of like the 1990 Infiniti M30 (Nissan Leopard). Sometimes Nissan just rebadges any Japanese Nissan model as an Infiniti expecting easy success and it blows up on them.
Bought my 6MT new in 2003. It was Motor Trend's 2003 COTY. Awesome ride. I might still own it today had a tree not fallen on it and crushed it. 😞
I remember when this car came out. I had an e39 1999 bmw 540i. My friend just picked this up for $35-36k fully loaded. Hell of a car and it finally dethroned the 3 series both the sedan and coupe until the e90 came out with the 335i. That g35 gave me 282hp 300+ torque 540i a problem,I couldn’t pull on him until I did a few bolt ons. I later picked up a brand new e60 550i in 07 and the god damn G37 sedans were fast too,a g37S 6spd had no issue keeping up with my car at lower speeds,it was demoralizing. Again g35 coupe or sedan for $35k fully loaded was smoking an e46 330i sedan or coupe that was $50k+ for a 330ci with the zhp performance package,insanity. The G37 was great too but 335i was slightly ahead in performance this time and N54 is a legendary motor,so is a N55 in its own regard… still love the V motors in Infiniti,good stuff and I think Infiniti was the only Japanese brand to take on bmw and beat it
My only issue with the G35 is that most of the used ones are clapper out and modded tastelessly.
I love my G. Sad to see so many people destroying them. But there a handful that have taken care of them!
Ours lasted 15 years, over 140,000 miles. Loved that car; did everything but invest in a supercharger.
It's unfortunate these became theft targets (be careful of you have one) Infinitis have probably the greatest cost, reliability, performance, styling ratio of any used vehicles.
One of the greatest cars ever built
One of the nice things about them was they did, as John stated, run on the same wheelbase as the sedan, so they actually had a decent back seat, and a large trunk.
I have the 6 Mt w/ Brembo love driving it But it was in Bad shape when I bought it. Going to make it look clean
the best-sounding V6 in history and the most beautiful car to ever have it
Remember when Infiniti was cool?
The only time you see these cars not trashed and being beaten on by certain groups.
I nearly put in order in for one back in the day, but the six speed was just a little pricey for my budget. I bought a low mile Z31 instead.
Do these handle boost well? Are they known to throw rods under stress or break blocks?
It’s sad what Infiniti has become and that the 5th owners of these clapped these out and send them at takeovers.
Former g35 and current IPL G owner
I had a 2002 G20 sport and would drive a g35 loaner while in service. The g20 had it flaws, but it was lighter weight and had some turbo options that would have shook up the segment. It was a great car and time for infiniti.
Edgar Motors hasn’t came out with a good car since this platform hit.
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🥦 head
I’m so tired of the hate on g35/37 they are amazing cars, stop hating on the car hate on the owner
@2:09 it's that guy! The dude that was in a Nissan Maxima & walked that Porshe in a drag race. 😂
Dude is a legend
NFSU2 memories, love driving these......
Im glad never sold my g35 6mt still running strong 💪
We need this Infiniti back!! Not today’s Infiniti. We don’t want VC turbos or CVTs. Go back to the old days
Almost unbelievable how far the Infiniti brand has fallen. They were on top of their game in the early 2000s, even giving the Germans a run for their money. Today? Utterly forgettable. A case study in abysmal product management.
We can thank Carlos Ghosn and his thuggery ways. Literally put Nissan/Infiniti a decade behind the car market. Luckily there is hope, given their remarkable products they're putting out as of late. I just hope they don't give up on the car game since the Q50 is now gone. A sweet car that just needed some modernizing.
@@hellkitty1014What “remarkable products” is Infiniti or Nissan putting out lately? They’ve given up entirely on cars with the discontinuation of the Infiniti Q50 after 2024 and the all new 2025 Infiniti QX80 is a joke compared to the refreshed 2025 Cadillac Escalade and 2025 Lincoln Navigator. Nissan will be discontinuing the Altima soon as well. Nissan is basically on life support now. Carlos Ghosn turned the company around 25 years ago and then made a dash.
@@gedamanI disagree, the QX80 is still competitive and many observers seem to think so. Not to mention the Armada as well.
Very long story, which I will get to later.
@gedaman Nissan of the 90s/early 2000s were vastly superior to thr crap Ghosn put out. Everything went CVT and Infiniti was left to languish for years. But cars like the new Murano, Armada, and QX80 are very competitive against their competition. Even the current Rogue and Pathfinder are solid entrants. What's with the doom and gloom??
Had one 👍🏻🔥
Shouldn’t have sold it
You can tell this a old video from the lake of homeless people and no poop in the streets in San Francisco
2:06 Shia LaBeouf
These were one of the coolest cars to have in the early 2000s.
Such a nice car, too bad many of them are now molested with shitty mods like trumpet exhausts, crappy after market wheels and being thrown around at street car takeovers.
Owned a few of these. Amazing cars back then
Whats insane is the a version of this platform is still in production and the engine.
Best model Infiniti ever built … honestly should’ve kept my G35S in my avi, because I sadly decided to leave Infiniti and never return for any of their other models, aside from the FX50S that was unfortunately discontinued as well smh
INFINITI has always made really good vehicles for the money. It’s a shame they aren’t making any more cars and only SUVs/crossovers, but they’re far from the only brand doing so. You can’t blame them for only making what people want to buy, but it is a shame great cars like the G series sedans and coupes as well as the Q series sedans and coupes are gone now. I loved my old I35, loved my G37, and love my Q50. They’ve all been great cars and with a few basic mods outperform cars that cost nearly twice the MSRP.
The only time Infiniti was relevant.
Infiniti stayed relevant until around 2014 when the Infiniti Q50 kind of lost momentum for the Infiniti brand.
@@gedamanBlaming the Q50 introduction in 2013, ignores some other issues with the brand by 2014-15.
Ghosn handicapped upward momentum of Infiniti in the 2010s.
Owned my 03 6mt for a decade. They are great cars
So hard to find one thats all stock and fairly low miles
Mine has a Invidia Gemini and sounds crazy. I wish people didn't straight pipe them and cut the resonators off so often
Man that car still looks beautiful by today’s standards!👌🥰👍
Peak Infiniti / Nissan! Though the RZ34 is pretty awesome for what it is as the last "affordable" true JDM twin turbo sports coupe. I just wish Inifiniti would make an upgraded interior version of it (like 2025 QX80 level minus the crazy amount of screens) and keeping the hshift as the base option then transplanting the R35 GT-R DCT in the back for a 2WD upper option.
Those taillights were so new and futuristic. You could see a g35 one mile and you knew it was a g35 cause no one had those unique taillights.
I can't believe this was 21 years ago!
I think it looks better than the 350z. Both are under powered. They dyno about the same between coupe and sedan.
These cars were 🔥. Unfortunately 75% of the people that bought them destroyed them because they don't know how to drive & they redlined them every chance they got. Which is why i don't see them anymore.
These engines had a few specific maintenance quirks that would take them out if the owner didn't know or care enough to keep up with it.
Specifically the early ones if I recall correctly
@@josephthomas8318 None that I'm aware of. But if people took the time to read their owner's & service manuals they wouldn't have had any issues with em. We saw how most people drove them lol. We remember lol.
@@josephthomas8318 They treated them like they were souped up rwd Altima's.
@@user-sk1eh3pg6j75% of who? Mostly not the first owners. Plenty in the Sunbelt still exist, the clapped out and cigarette filled playthings of Edgars in Texas, NM, and AZ with trashy mods.