@@reallyrandomrides1296 yes! I hate how pretty much all luxury cars now are trying to be sports sedans. Stiff ride and hard seats do not give an impression of luxury.
When the Lexus LS400 and Infiniti Q45 arrived in 1990 it's seems like they were aimed at two different types of luxury car buyers. The Lexus was aimed at the Mercedes Benz buyer who prefers pure luxury and top notch quality(Mercedes was still at the top of their game at that time), and the Infiniti was aimed at the BMW buyer who prefers luxury with a dash of sportiness.
I remember it like that too.. those companies earned there respect over time. thats y i gotta wait and see how the new players ol cars become collectors and relics in few years. just sayin
@@branjohn205not even close Acura is more geared to Audi. Infiniti has more bmw comparable models than Acura does. G35 vs 3 series bmw, m35/45 vs 5 series models. Infiniti runs rear wheel drive vehicles just like bmw. Acura only sale all wheel drive or front wheel drive models.
The good old days when Acura had the Legend, this Infiniti Q45 and Lexus with the LS 400. Now out of the 3 only Lexus is still making their flagship LS series. I myself owned a 1994 Acura Legend L model.
I really liked the legend, first and second generations. I never really liked it when it became the RL (even though it was still called the legend in Japan). I felt like they should not have ditched the brand equity they had with the legend and Integra nameplates.
@@patricktam4278 yeah. from my my understanding the rl's sales never topped those of the legend. A lot of people don't know what RLs are and i see them priced lower than TLs.
Functionally, the RLX was a real Honda Legend and did get a nice unique power train too. The recent V8 Infiniti Q70L would’ve been a Q45 if not for the dumb renaming scheme.
@@johnnymason2460 yes it’s the M, but the last M also the long wheelbase flagship Nissan Cima overseas. The Q45 was the Cima in its day. The 3rd Gen M was a successor it just didn’t have the long wheelbase version yet and they didn’t bring the rear seat options to the US model.
1994 I was in 7th grade but I was really into cars! That seems like a huge amount of money back then and the features were not that great when you think about in today's money $54,950 for the top of the line is equivalent to $104,889.33.
The 90s was prime of Japanese engineering. I still see the 1st gen ls400 every so often, but I havent seen a q45 in years. I also prefer the original style.
@@Wasabi9111 you're on point 👉 with everything you said. I still see the original LS as well. At Sam's club this past weekend actually. I also miss the Legend. It was a good run 🏃♂️.
I remember when this car originally came out with the LS400. From a performance, technical, and looks aspect, I liked this one much better than the LS400. I feel like Infiniti botched the launch of the brand with their marketing campaign with the “zen” ads and to this day still hasn’t recovered. Their brand seems to be the value brand, price shoppers who want BMW performance but don’t want to pay the price. They never got much brand value out of the Q name, so renaming the entire line to Q and QX didn’t really help either, imho. It just made it more confusing.
Acura is the "Value" brand but you're right Infiniti isn't much better anymore. They actually had an amazing resurgence when the FX came out. They were doing fantastic but, made some bad choices in expansion and fell on their face. Also the original Q45 was superior to the LS400 in many ways. It still never gets the credit it deserves.
I still have my 94' Q45 with 46k on the clock and it's the same color as the test car but with all white interior, fuel injectors seems to be the issue with these cars along with certain interior pieces breaking, but a great car!
@@SkyNet-ty1tm or you can just look up my (insert year) q45 timing chain guide issues. It's really simple...Nissan put plastic guides from the factory and they have a tendency to wear out. There was a recall I think. They replaced them with metal guides. Google is your friend
@@oldtwinsna8347 exactly right and did the research by studying the demographics of potential buyers and the necessary r and d to make the LS a world 🌎 beater for the price at least at that time.
First Japanese V8!!! Then the LS400 came right behind it. My uncle had a '92 in like '95. Man these things were so good. The last model 2002-2006 was brilliant. I have owned 3 of the last model and stil have 2 of them.
I love the 3rd Gen version, the one that looked like a big elegant Altima. Still, the first Gen made a big impression when it was introduced I remember.
The bad thing about that car, is the 3G Q45 debuted first as a prototype in 2000 and was designed first in 1998. Someone at NDI in La Jolla, thought it was sensible to approve an Altima similar to that Q45 and did so in early 1999.
Specifically it is what I like least about the third generation, which seems like an altima. The assembly quality was no longer as good as in the first generation, although in terms of performance there was an advance, although not as much as its counterpart the Lexus LS430.
I love the brown on this test car. The original 1990 face of the Q45 was not exactly attractive. I think that really hurt its ability to make a big splash when it was introduced, helping the LS400 get more praise. This refreshed face looks more attractive and more European, oddly enough. The Japanese were really putting out great cars at the time.
For some reason Infiniti didn't seem too proud of this product and simply failed to aggressively market the brand and its products at launch. My grandmother had one of the earlier models, great car aside from a transmission that failed.
This was the Lexus LS400 version of a sports sedan. Really good car. Unfortunately, Infiniti's failure with the ad campaign for this car (starting with its "hidden" introduction five years earlier), made the Q45 a distant desirable sedan over the Lexus LS400.
This is 1993, more so 4 years after that failed campaign. Infiniti corrected course very quickly with that, by mid-1990. People act as if they maintained that for for the whole 1st generation.
When i was a kid i wanted this car so bad. I remember a friend of my date at the time just bought a Q45a at the time. He took us for a spin and i was blown away. He demo'd the a in the active suspension which was out of this world. Poor Nissan. I miss them being a real tour de force. Now they are lame but turning around.
Q45 A Hunter Green PButter Interior, you miss the feature where passengers could read while driving at night the lights will come on in the floor and shine upwards and this car went faster than what the gauges said if you had what they call the illegal engine LOL .... also if someone was trying to break into your car if they pull the handles once it would beep if they pulled it twice the lights will come on and beep and third time the entire engine was shut off if they did get access which I loved. the key was beautiful long and big and it was a pleasure to be a owner of this beautiful luxury Beast for 5 years. Lots of compliments and if I could find another in good shape I would definitely buy one for weekend cruising.
I was looking at buying a pretty clean 2000 Q50 a while ago, but didn't know much about it, ie reliability. Was a really cool car for the age but I couldn't quite pull the trigger
The 1994 model looks chromed-out it looks really nice it's like going to the Men's Wearhouse getting a nice snake skin black leather dress shoes with a tuxedo and sun glasses in '94.
I had no clue they were that expensive. I looked at a few used ones in shopping for my first car in around 2002-2003 and they were $4-6k by then. Not even 10 years old. Insanity. I didn't buy anything nearly that impractical in the end.
This was a great car that just didn't appeal to the mass market. Most preferred the Mercedes clone styling of the ls 400 ,but the q45 was more original and had better performance. Its v8 sounded fantastic and i liked the stark interior.
Very handsome and majestic vehicle for it's time. Costed about 100k in todays money. If you owned one of these back then, you were seen as royalty and fancy. The redesigned grill makes the vehicle look so elegant and classy. Sadly you don't see many first gen Q45s on the road today. The Q45 was very forgotten compared to the other luxury cars of this era such as the Acura Legend, BMW 7, Lincoln Continental, Cadillac Seville, Mercedes S-Class, Lexus LS400. It didn't capture as much attention as those luxury cars did. Very underrated sedan
It seems cars were so much better back in the day. The reliability, roomy cabin and great performance think today manufacturers try making cars more computerized upgraded too much technology no focusing on interior room or reliability. I miss those days glad MW did a review of the Q45 a teacher that knew passed away a while back from a massive stroke had a Gray Q45 think was 1999 or 2000, my grandmother best friend daughter had '92 or '93 in burgundy she died 18 years ago from cancer. When was guess 7 years old fell in love with those old Infiniti cars as J30 and Q45 when seeing this first generation think about the movie A Thin Line Between Love and Hate when forgot her name on the movie almost ran over Martin Lawrence ... LOL 😆. I love those old Infiniti and Lexus cars like SC and LS400s reminds me of another movie National Lampoon Lethal Loaded 1 at the beginning when had those Infiniti and Lexus cars on the trucks. Well going back to the vehicle Q45 rear looked like the third generation Maxima, didn't like the front end of 1990-93 models was glad the front fascia looked better for 94-96 sure love these old cars they do bring back some of the best memories like when times so much better doing those good old days.
I like the original, grill-less look more. The facelift made it look like a Mitsubishi mixed with Audi 80/90 in the shape of the side signals of the headlights. The following generation (which I find even better looking due to its flowing rear end, despite the fact that, in the facelift of that generation, the reverse lights could be integrated into the taillights which, in turn, could be less square) could do without this anonymous face.
During the 90's, I worked in a company which provided us executives the use of a fleet of chauffeured Nissan Infinity and Lexus LS cars. The Nissans provided a more comfortable, flatter ride than the Lexus, which had an even softer ride. However, there was more vertical motion in the Lexus. After several years, the Lexus proved to be better built cars. They showed negligible signs of wear, whereas passengers in the Nissans began to sense a growing looseness in the suspension. Besides, the Nissans were having to be sent the shop for repairs of the sort that weren't required in the Lexus.
These were great cars, but the previous generation was the better driver's car. Faster, had its own style and that engine note was great. Unfortunately, all of these suffered from pretty poor build quality. This 2nd gen version was the beginning of the decline for Infiniti, and it wasn't until the G35 that they recovered for a moment, but now they are basically non-existent.
@@jmin8400 the early cars he means before the refresh.....1990-1993 had much more character before Infiniti watered it down to try to appeal more for the mass market, which I totally agree with. I don’t agree with @MediocreMan about the paint quality being poor though as Infiniti’s paint process was something they were very proud of against other luxury manufacturers
@@jackdough8164 those 4 speed autos were just awful, never being able to tap into the powerband. essentially only had 3 speeds for acceleration, since 4th was way overdriven to maximize cruise speed fuel economy.
I despise those Zig-Zag shifting patterns. In a parking lot, when someone starts backing up and you are behind them, a zig-zag gear shifting pattern is a hazard.
My friend had a ‘93 q45 and we used romp that thing like crazy. The ‘93 was a bit quicker than this one in the video. He managed a 7 second 0-60 and a 14.8 in the 1/4 mile. We were out driving like maniacs in it one night and my friend took a turn way to fast and overcorrected, tried to fix it with throttle but didnt have enough room and we wrecked hard into a steel fence that stopped us dead and luckily. There was a 40 foot drop beyond the fence which would have been bad news for us. Fun car though.
The plastics inside and the cluster looked very cheap compared to what was in even the base Lexus ES300 at the time. These were also pigs on fuel. They all but vanished from the roads after 10 years went by since depreciation was brutal so anything to repair over 40% of what the whole car was worth would economically total it. It wasn’t as much of a disaster as the Mazda 929.
My first dream car. Specifically the 1994, as it paired the updated styling with the t active rear steering. So neat. So dated. So questionable. The styling hasn't aged well at all. I wonder if remaining first gen Q45s number in the hundreds yet. I did see a 2000 Q41t anniversary edition last week. Seems like thats the generation that has lasted. First and third gens are all gone. Third gen was so sweet when new, with those awesome retrofuturistic commercials, big 18 inch wheels and gattling gun headlights. Now they look like bloated 2002 Altimas. Infiniti: an MBA program case study in what not to do.
I remember when this was brand new. It fell immediately behind the LS400 and never caught up and is now but a memory. Nissan didn't help there cause by coming out with no grill on the first ones not to mention commercials that didn't show the car at all
The first ads that is, as by spring 1990 they started showing the car and correcting course. This version of the car was designed until 1991 and launched as an early '94. Facelifts are not quick turnarounds.
Interesting car, but looking back I see why it never sold well. It's a weird, not quite sure what it wants to be car. Each successive model was more and more of a compromise and confused.
@@eriknephrongfr8847 What part of "just messed up the 1989 market debut period" said otherwise? It just seems that virtually everyone who sees the first generation in retrospect, always recall the ads and mistakenly imply, they never showed the car (ever), as if it went on for years. These mistakes ran for about 3 months, until the first ads showing the car appeared on TV around January 1990. Q45 was launched in November 1989.
@@eriknephrongfr8847I don't care how old you are. You equally tried to essentially put words in my mouth, as if I hadn't already acknowledged that they messed up at the beginning with the first ads. You're merely projecting of course, because funny enough you thought it was new knowledge to anyone else about those first ads. Anyone informed enough regarding Infiniti knows about that already. Has nothing in fact to do with this video regarding an updated 1994 model, which was seen on TV frequently in ad marketing and product placement. You should be commenting that tired old trivia from 1989, on more contextually relevant videos of the original 1990 model and not later years. The Q45 struggled plainly because it was too unconventional, with no prestige to boot. The ads were hardly a long lasting effect, considering that some high end products without any marketing still sell reasonably. You're pointing out the obvious and nothing new, so stop clapping for yourself.
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The 90s had the best luxury vehicles.. & their styling were so authentic & honest.. ❤️❤️❤️
Yeah
Definitely. Today we have sports-luxury cars, not luxury cars.
@@reallyrandomrides1296 yes! I hate how pretty much all luxury cars now are trying to be sports sedans. Stiff ride and hard seats do not give an impression of luxury.
Luxury vehicles 1980sand 1990s is best
Something for everybody. Tightly wound sport sedan to modernized land yacht and everything in between
These were _quality_ cars. Damn safe for the 90s too.
Rather have on of these than the comparable Lexus of the time (fine car too). The styling was more sporting IMO
put it in a small overlap and watch it crunch to the driver lol
see on on sale rn $3000 510,000kms
When the Lexus LS400 and Infiniti Q45 arrived in 1990 it's seems like they were aimed at two different types of luxury car buyers. The Lexus was aimed at the Mercedes Benz buyer who prefers pure luxury and top notch quality(Mercedes was still at the top of their game at that time), and the Infiniti was aimed at the BMW buyer who prefers luxury with a dash of sportiness.
*1989
Lexus looked to MB. Infiniti looked to Jaguar
I think Acura is more BMW than Infiniti.
I remember it like that too.. those companies earned there respect over time. thats y i gotta wait and see how the new players ol cars become collectors and relics in few years. just sayin
@@branjohn205not even close Acura is more geared to Audi. Infiniti has more bmw comparable models than Acura does. G35 vs 3 series bmw, m35/45 vs 5 series models. Infiniti runs rear wheel drive vehicles just like bmw. Acura only sale all wheel drive or front wheel drive models.
The good old days when Acura had the Legend, this Infiniti Q45 and Lexus with the LS 400. Now out of the 3 only Lexus is still making their flagship LS series. I myself owned a 1994 Acura Legend L model.
I really liked the legend, first and second generations. I never really liked it when it became the RL (even though it was still called the legend in Japan). I felt like they should not have ditched the brand equity they had with the legend and Integra nameplates.
@@patricktam4278 yeah. from my my understanding the rl's sales never topped those of the legend. A lot of people don't know what RLs are and i see them priced lower than TLs.
Functionally, the RLX was a real Honda Legend and did get a nice unique power train too. The recent V8 Infiniti Q70L would’ve been a Q45 if not for the dumb renaming scheme.
@@Forge17 The Q70 was actually a former M37/M56 sedan. The Q45 was never actually replaced.
@@johnnymason2460 yes it’s the M, but the last M also the long wheelbase flagship Nissan Cima overseas. The Q45 was the Cima in its day. The 3rd Gen M was a successor it just didn’t have the long wheelbase version yet and they didn’t bring the rear seat options to the US model.
I drove one for a couple years back in the 90s great car and fun to drive!
1994 I was in 7th grade but I was really into cars! That seems like a huge amount of money back then and the features were not that great when you think about in today's money $54,950 for the top of the line is equivalent to $104,889.33.
Ur not lying.. I thought it was more like 41K that was very expensive for it’s time lol
They got softer with this generation. The original ones were more like a muscle car with leather seats. That motor was amazing
You're exactly right John. One of my friends had one and to me it was actually better looking.
The 90s was prime of Japanese engineering. I still see the 1st gen ls400 every so often, but I havent seen a q45 in years. I also prefer the original style.
@@Wasabi9111 you're on point 👉 with everything you said. I still see the original LS as well. At Sam's club this past weekend actually. I also miss the Legend. It was a good run 🏃♂️.
It's a bubble car, so of course it's great
Great way to word it
My mom had a 1995 Q45a, same color as this one in the video, and it was a nice underrated car I must say
I love this car
John Davis must not have been feeling well that day. He totally forgot to complain about the lack of oil pressure and volt gages.
Every gen of this car was so slept on, they all were truly great, especially the second-gen that mimicked the S-Class of the '90s
I remember when this car originally came out with the LS400. From a performance, technical, and looks aspect, I liked this one much better than the LS400. I feel like Infiniti botched the launch of the brand with their marketing campaign with the “zen” ads and to this day still hasn’t recovered. Their brand seems to be the value brand, price shoppers who want BMW performance but don’t want to pay the price. They never got much brand value out of the Q name, so renaming the entire line to Q and QX didn’t really help either, imho. It just made it more confusing.
I loved the G35 name.
Acura is the "Value" brand but you're right Infiniti isn't much better anymore. They actually had an amazing resurgence when the FX came out. They were doing fantastic but, made some bad choices in expansion and fell on their face. Also the original Q45 was superior to the LS400 in many ways. It still never gets the credit it deserves.
@@blackericdenice “G” is objectively a way cooler letter than “Q”
Q50’s are still nice though.
@@YouArentSlick 100% agree, I feel like they had more brand recognition with g than q actually. That q never really made a name for itself.
I picked up a clean 95 Q45 after I graduated college back in 2005. Best $3500 I ever spent. Man I miss that big ol' beast
I still have my 94' Q45 with 46k on the clock and it's the same color as the test car but with all white interior, fuel injectors seems to be the issue with these cars along with certain interior pieces breaking, but a great car!
Stop lying
@@lawrencethompson3868 No lies told!
Did you get the timing chain guides fixed? That's what kills theses motors....and why you don't see many around
@@bryfunkenstein any links with this info ?
@@SkyNet-ty1tm or you can just look up my (insert year) q45 timing chain guide issues.
It's really simple...Nissan put plastic guides from the factory and they have a tendency to wear out. There was a recall I think. They replaced them with metal guides.
Google is your friend
It was a decent car with good features and power, but Lexus made a bigger splash on the scene unfortunately.
As I recall, Lexus had a much more effective marketing campaign to establish themselves. Money well spent in this case.
@@oldtwinsna8347 exactly right and did the research by studying the demographics of potential buyers and the necessary r and d to make the LS a world 🌎 beater for the price at least at that time.
First Japanese V8!!! Then the LS400 came right behind it. My uncle had a '92 in like '95. Man these things were so good. The last model 2002-2006 was brilliant. I have owned 3 of the last model and stil have 2 of them.
Oversized badge? Doesnt compare to the sizes today
Oversized for back then, and no one was comparing them to todays standards.
I love the 3rd Gen version, the one that looked like a big elegant Altima. Still, the first Gen made a big impression when it was introduced I remember.
The bad thing about that car, is the 3G Q45 debuted first as a prototype in 2000 and was designed first in 1998. Someone at NDI in La Jolla, thought it was sensible to approve an Altima similar to that Q45 and did so in early 1999.
Specifically it is what I like least about the third generation, which seems like an altima. The assembly quality was no longer as good as in the first generation, although in terms of performance there was an advance, although not as much as its counterpart the Lexus LS430.
I remember these cars when I was a kid and I just loved them and always wanted to buy one
I love the brown on this test car. The original 1990 face of the Q45 was not exactly attractive. I think that really hurt its ability to make a big splash when it was introduced, helping the LS400 get more praise. This refreshed face looks more attractive and more European, oddly enough. The Japanese were really putting out great cars at the time.
@2:13 - That antenna is glorious.
Infiniti, Acura, Lexus, amazing stuff
Cool. That look exactly like my 1994 Q45a - exterior/interior- even the BBS wheels. 😊
The original Grill-less design looked nice but I liked this design also.
Had a gold 94 in 98 loved it still would buy one
I had one of these. Loved it. Bought it at an auction for 500 bucks. Nobody knows what it was and passed it up. Great car.
This is a car that I would like to get. It would be a nice luxury car to have. One with a CD player would be nice.
For some reason Infiniti didn't seem too proud of this product and simply failed to aggressively market the brand and its products at launch. My grandmother had one of the earlier models, great car aside from a transmission that failed.
This was the Lexus LS400 version of a sports sedan. Really good car. Unfortunately, Infiniti's failure with the ad campaign for this car (starting with its "hidden" introduction five years earlier), made the Q45 a distant desirable sedan over the Lexus LS400.
This is 1993, more so 4 years after that failed campaign. Infiniti corrected course very quickly with that, by mid-1990. People act as if they maintained that for for the whole 1st generation.
I still see 90s LS400s daily out in the Southwest but not nearly enough of these.
When i was a kid i wanted this car so bad. I remember a friend of my date at the time just bought a Q45a at the time. He took us for a spin and i was blown away. He demo'd the a in the active suspension which was out of this world. Poor Nissan. I miss them being a real tour de force. Now they are lame but turning around.
Q45 A Hunter Green PButter Interior, you miss the feature where passengers could read while driving at night the lights will come on in the floor and shine upwards and this car went faster than what the gauges said if you had what they call the illegal engine LOL .... also if someone was trying to break into your car if they pull the handles once it would beep if they pulled it twice the lights will come on and beep and third time the entire engine was shut off if they did get access which I loved. the key was beautiful long and big and it was a pleasure to be a owner of this beautiful luxury Beast for 5 years. Lots of compliments and if I could find another in good shape I would definitely buy one for weekend cruising.
2:00 Wait...so the cup holder could only be used with the console lid open? Doesn't seem very convenient.
Yeah my thoughts too, seems very impractical.
I had a dark blue one. Loved it. Was very fast and fun back then.
I was looking at buying a pretty clean 2000 Q50 a while ago, but didn't know much about it, ie reliability. Was a really cool car for the age but I couldn't quite pull the trigger
2000 Q50?
@@noladol Q45
its called in GTA:SA the"Emperor"
I wonder what caused it to lose a second from the previous Q45? ECU programming? They're basically the same car from what I know.
Those prices seemed like 2022 prices. Wow! Expensive back then, eh? :)
The 1994 model looks chromed-out it looks really nice it's like going to the Men's Wearhouse getting a nice snake skin black leather dress shoes with a tuxedo and sun glasses in '94.
to think that was $50 grand in 1994 🤯definitely wasn’t the value option
That's almost $95k in 2022 dollars.
I had no clue they were that expensive. I looked at a few used ones in shopping for my first car in around 2002-2003 and they were $4-6k by then. Not even 10 years old. Insanity.
I didn't buy anything nearly that impractical in the end.
Maybe at the time it looked alot better, but today the facelift just blends in as any older car the belt buckle front end catches my attention.
This was a great car that just didn't appeal to the mass market. Most preferred the Mercedes clone styling of the ls 400 ,but the q45 was more original and had better performance. Its v8 sounded fantastic and i liked the stark interior.
Great cars, but I did like the original '90/'91 models with the front badge and intake below instead of the grille.
I love the old reviews
Dang! a very expen$ive Nissan. $54,950 in 1994 is worth $104,244.82 in 2022
I wonder how many they sold?
I remember it made Mercedes piss in its pants back then
Very handsome and majestic vehicle for it's time.
Costed about 100k in todays money. If you owned one of these back then, you were seen as royalty and fancy.
The redesigned grill makes the vehicle look so elegant and classy. Sadly you don't see many first gen Q45s on the road today. The Q45 was very forgotten compared to the other luxury cars of this era such as the Acura Legend, BMW 7, Lincoln Continental, Cadillac Seville, Mercedes S-Class, Lexus LS400. It didn't capture as much attention as those luxury cars did.
Very underrated sedan
It seems cars were so much better back in the day. The reliability, roomy cabin and great performance think today manufacturers try making cars more computerized upgraded too much technology no focusing on interior room or reliability. I miss those days glad MW did a review of the Q45 a teacher that knew passed away a while back from a massive stroke had a Gray Q45 think was 1999 or 2000, my grandmother best friend daughter had '92 or '93 in burgundy she died 18 years ago from cancer. When was guess 7 years old fell in love with those old Infiniti cars as J30 and Q45 when seeing this first generation think about the movie A Thin Line Between Love and Hate when forgot her name on the movie almost ran over Martin Lawrence ... LOL 😆. I love those old Infiniti and Lexus cars like SC and LS400s reminds me of another movie National Lampoon Lethal Loaded 1 at the beginning when had those Infiniti and Lexus cars on the trucks. Well going back to the vehicle Q45 rear looked like the third generation Maxima, didn't like the front end of 1990-93 models was glad the front fascia looked better for 94-96 sure love these old cars they do bring back some of the best memories like when times so much better doing those good old days.
2:01 great place to put a beer indeed lol
My first dream car ❤️
My 1996 Q45A was my all time favorite car ever !!!
I like the original, grill-less look more. The facelift made it look like a Mitsubishi mixed with Audi 80/90 in the shape of the side signals of the headlights. The following generation (which I find even better looking due to its flowing rear end, despite the fact that, in the facelift of that generation, the reverse lights could be integrated into the taillights which, in turn, could be less square) could do without this anonymous face.
The facelifted model looks like a Rover 800 in my opinion.
@@henrystone237 Could be.
Also, the necessary "cupholder."
I have a 94 q45 base people love it. I actually drive it more than my CLA AMG because it's Soooo comfortable 🌞
During the 90's, I worked in a company which provided us executives the use of a fleet of chauffeured Nissan Infinity and Lexus LS cars. The Nissans provided a more comfortable, flatter ride than the Lexus, which had an even softer ride. However, there was more vertical motion in the Lexus. After several years, the Lexus proved to be better built cars. They showed negligible signs of wear, whereas passengers in the Nissans began to sense a growing looseness in the suspension. Besides, the Nissans were having to be sent the shop for repairs of the sort that weren't required in the Lexus.
2:42 a burn out
Jesus $54k for an infiniti back then would be over $100k in todays standards!
Good, but def Overpriced.
Unfortunately, their resale value was no where near the LS400
You mean fortunately! You can find a unicorn for 3k and live in the lap of luxury!
These were great cars, but the previous generation was the better driver's car. Faster, had its own style and that engine note was great. Unfortunately, all of these suffered from pretty poor build quality. This 2nd gen version was the beginning of the decline for Infiniti, and it wasn't until the G35 that they recovered for a moment, but now they are basically non-existent.
Previous generation? This is the first generation, you make no sense.
@@jmin8400 the early cars he means before the refresh.....1990-1993 had much more character before Infiniti watered it down to try to appeal more for the mass market, which I totally agree with. I don’t agree with @MediocreMan about the paint quality being poor though as Infiniti’s paint process was something they were very proud of against other luxury manufacturers
Could you imagine a 4 door V8 luxury sedan running 16.3 in the quarter mile today? Hell today a 15 second V8 luxury sedan would be a hard seller.
It had good power so I’m guessing that must’ve been a long legged 4 speed auto. Or the driver didn’t know what he was doing lol
@@jackdough8164 those 4 speed autos were just awful, never being able to tap into the powerband. essentially only had 3 speeds for acceleration, since 4th was way overdriven to maximize cruise speed fuel economy.
I despise those Zig-Zag shifting patterns. In a parking lot, when someone starts backing up and you are behind them, a zig-zag gear shifting pattern is a hazard.
My friend had a ‘93 q45 and we used romp that thing like crazy. The ‘93 was a bit quicker than this one in the video. He managed a 7 second 0-60 and a 14.8 in the 1/4 mile. We were out driving like maniacs in it one night and my friend took a turn way to fast and overcorrected, tried to fix it with throttle but didnt have enough room and we wrecked hard into a steel fence that stopped us dead and luckily. There was a 40 foot drop beyond the fence which would have been bad news for us. Fun car though.
Idiotic regardless of the car
@@nessuno5403 I agree. Teenagers don't always have the best critical thinking though.
@@556m4 that's fair
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The plastics inside and the cluster looked very cheap compared to what was in even the base Lexus ES300 at the time. These were also pigs on fuel. They all but vanished from the roads after 10 years went by since depreciation was brutal so anything to repair over 40% of what the whole car was worth would economically total it. It wasn’t as much of a disaster as the Mazda 929.
$55K in 1994 is crazy.
Almost 100k!!!
1993 not 94
MW SAFETY CHECK
[✔] DUAL AIRBAGS
[✔] SEAT BELT TENSIONERS
[✔] ANTI-LOCK BRAKES
[✔] TRACTION CONTROL
[✔] 5-MPH BUMPERS
Do you just parrot everything you watch into text?
INTERIOR NOISE - 60 MPH:
63 dB
No manual option ;-;
Still, I'd daily it regardless.
Oh the T with 4 wheel steering and the A with active dampers.
I remember this on motor week 94
I preferred the original's hood w/ out the grill. It was a good look. The grill never looked good to me.
Great ride thank you motor week
My first dream car. Specifically the 1994, as it paired the updated styling with the t active rear steering. So neat. So dated. So questionable. The styling hasn't aged well at all. I wonder if remaining first gen Q45s number in the hundreds yet. I did see a 2000 Q41t anniversary edition last week. Seems like thats the generation that has lasted. First and third gens are all gone. Third gen was so sweet when new, with those awesome retrofuturistic commercials, big 18 inch wheels and gattling gun headlights. Now they look like bloated 2002 Altimas. Infiniti: an MBA program case study in what not to do.
He didn't mention that 1994 was the first year the transmission was designed to take of in first gear instead of second gear.
This looks like Nissan president.
Yep, the Infiniti Q45 was based off of the Nissan President.
I had a 94 Q45 was a good car hard to get parts for it
These were even better with all-weather tires.
2:41 They did a burnout 😂
1/4 MILE:
16.3 SECONDS 90 MPH
looks like a chevy caprice, the LS looks cleaner
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1:08 whoa, dude- creeper af serial killer vibes
EPA MILEAGE:
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Still prefer the first generation design, especially the belt buckle grille.
The original look was better. My grandfather had a 91 Q45 for many years. It was velvety smooth and powerful.
I remember when this was brand new. It fell immediately behind the LS400 and never caught up and is now but a memory. Nissan didn't help there cause by coming out with no grill on the first ones not to mention commercials that didn't show the car at all
😂OMG that's right the TV commercials were very mysterious. I think they were afraid to show the front end.
The first ads that is, as by spring 1990 they started showing the car and correcting course. This version of the car was designed until 1991 and launched as an early '94. Facelifts are not quick turnarounds.
I love the update to the front end of this vehicle but it weighed wat too much. Was this thing body on frame lol?!
278 HP 292 LB-FT Torque
Great job
From Argentina
Keep it up...
Functional Facelift
Yikes, $100k in today's money. Had no idea these were so pricey.
A big step down from the first gen’s distinctive design. Also, “quieter side mirror motors”? How is that something they even noticed??
I love these cars
Really pretty car
4.5 Liter V-8
Very nice car but why did Infiniti name it after my local bus - Q45 Bus in Queens, NYC?
A super Maxima
I did like the weird first yesr design
54k in 1994 was no joke
1993 money
0-60 MPH 8.2 SECONDS
Interesting car, but looking back I see why it never sold well. It's a weird, not quite sure what it wants to be car. Each successive model was more and more of a compromise and confused.
It started with the ad campaign. They didn’t show the car. It went downhill from there.
They started showing the car, well before this in 1990. Just messed up the 1989 market debut period.
@@jmin8400 First commercial. Didn’t show the car.
@@eriknephrongfr8847 What part of "just messed up the 1989 market debut period" said otherwise?
It just seems that virtually everyone who sees the first generation in retrospect, always recall the ads and mistakenly imply, they never showed the car (ever), as if it went on for years.
These mistakes ran for about 3 months, until the first ads showing the car appeared on TV around January 1990. Q45 was launched in November 1989.
@@jmin8400 You can’t read. I never said never ever. I’m 56. I remember the campaign. Thank you for your valuable contribution.
@@eriknephrongfr8847I don't care how old you are. You equally tried to essentially put words in my mouth, as if I hadn't already acknowledged that they messed up at the beginning with the first ads.
You're merely projecting of course, because funny enough you thought it was new knowledge to anyone else about those first ads. Anyone informed enough regarding Infiniti knows about that already.
Has nothing in fact to do with this video regarding an updated 1994 model, which was seen on TV frequently in ad marketing and product placement. You should be commenting that tired old trivia from 1989, on more contextually relevant videos of the original 1990 model and not later years.
The Q45 struggled plainly because it was too unconventional, with no prestige to boot. The ads were hardly a long lasting effect, considering that some high end products without any marketing still sell reasonably. You're pointing out the obvious and nothing new, so stop clapping for yourself.