October10
Nissan has released images of its Intima Concept ahead of its Tokyo Motor Show debut. Building on Nissan’s Modern Living Concept, the Intima design theme is one of artistic forms and modern style. Entry to the front passenger’s seat is aided by a seat that swivel outward by 80 degrees.
The Intima’s exterior styling “combines sharp-edged lines and organic panel surfaces,” continuing the design theme from the interior.
Nissan didn’t release any other details, but the Intima doesn’t look too far off from a production model. Powertrain remains a mystery, but a version of Nissan’s famed VQ engine likely resides beneath the hood.
I like the rear suicide doors, but most of this is nothing new or special.
Wow very impressive. Has a hint of mercedes CLS about it.
This could TOTALLY be a Nissan Altima 4-Door Coupe. i love the design. but if they sell it, it will have to be a Infiniti. Maybe a G37 4-dr Coupe.
Not bad. It does have a bit of the CLS about it. Although the CLS exists, and will continue for a long time. The chances of this being made? NOTHING.
The production version will look just as boring as Nissans have always been. Once it gets drizzled (bored down) it won’t even be worth a look at.
finaly something good coming out of japan again
Wow this is actually cool as hell.
New Maxima or Infiniti Q45?
Love the cologne and champagne glass - they can keep the purse. This car is haute. They should sell the chalice as a dealer add on lol.
Love the wood. But I’m biased - I like wood in cars more so than brushed aluminum.
Hello, Maxima???
very CLS, but very cool!
Ugly color,
Beautiful car!
thank you jeebus a concept worth looking at today, and what a comcept at that, this thing is really really nice(except for what jazz pointed out)
It’s got the altima’s profile, which by the way is also a beautiful car
I bet we’ll alot of this car in the next gen Maxima, which is supposed to be a 4-door coupe.
The 4 seats, The coupe profile a la CLS, the rear suicide doors, The Opel’ish Panorama windshield. I wouldn’t be surprised if these ended up in a Maxima in 2009.
Looks good. Like Altima with doors screwed backward. At least some ray of sanity out of Japan. Wait, it is probably French (Renault) in origin. Now French starting to look good? This is taxing couple of days with all those concept nightmares.
1.it appears to be running on a fwd platform (see the front wheels and over hang), and the name holds the same convention as the altima/maxima specifically the -a. if this is the next maxima, very cool. it will definitely differentiate itself from its platform sibling the altima.
Most useful concept we’ve seen over the last couple of days.
This is one sweet car!
Mi Si: This should be sold as a Nissan.
Aston: these days, nissans look liek appliances. But the datsuns are unanimously beautiful
What? No hydrocephalic fishbowl??? What are they thinking?
The whole car seems producible. Even the doors. More than a few companies are considering more interesting doors. Especially if the doors help the cars usefulness or appeal. Family cars that open up so completely to be more welcoming, for example. Sports cars with gull wing or scissor or butterfly doors to be closer to race cars or even aircraft.
Suicide doors are nothing new, ultra-lux cars, some compact coupes, and trucks have had or still have these doors. Exotic Sports cars have them to stand out or be closer to race cars or even aircraft. Extended cab P/U trucks, and some Compact coupes have them to make the cab or back seat, respectively, more accessible.
It’s just a matter of developing hinge systems to allow the doors to open and close safely and securely. Not a difficult thing to do. But I’m sure at least four people will read this and three will respond saying, “‘crazy doors’ are stupid!”
I doubt we’ll see them everywhere, Not everyone will welcome it (change and the different scares them). But you know, if it did happen, anything to not be “the car from company A that is just like the car for company B”.
Not really a fan of the lower bumper treatments.
Most of you guys are right.. the current Maxima is basically a sportier coupe-like Altima sedan, so it would follow that this should be the next Maxima (or will they call it Intima?). It is definitely a looker! What it definitely ISN’T is an Infiniti.. the proportions scream FWD.
Finally I was getting kind of worried there for a minute.
I agree, the current Maxima will probably have share some styling cues. Maybe if we are lucky they’ll lift the back end off of this thing for it. The Maxima has always had a bit of funkiness in rear and this should remedy that!
Besides the fact that it is an obvious lift from the CLS, it is VERY impressive. I like the interior. Best concept at Tokyo from a Jap company so far…but then again that isn’t had to beat with all the other gay crap that will be shown
Maxima, Altima, Intima ….. just call it a Vagima, please.
this looks like an avalon to me, not very like a nissan
Looks like a replacement for the Cefiro, at least I’m pretty sure they’re going to use that the exterior design for the next gen.
I like this car a lot. I think I see a lot of Peugeot in it—especially in the rear end. The colors are beautiful—especially the interior. And the glass roof is cool; I wonder how feasible that would be for production?
Many of you think this could be the next Maxima, but I don’t. The Maxima is supposed to be a fairly sporty car, but this concept is pure luxury, to my eye. If they hadn’t just redone the Altima, I’d say this could be it. Maybe a new range-topper for Nissan?
But I do agree with some of you that this definitely looks like a Nissan, and not an Infiniti.
And I agree with many of you that the concepts coming out of Japan the last several days are pretty weird, but keep in mind that they’re for the Japanese market, and their tastes are WAY different from ours. But as weird as each of them has been, I’ve seen elements of each of them that looked useful.
Based on my contacts, you’re looking at the new Infiniti Q.
2009 Nissan Maxima
By Stuart Fowle (Automobile Mag)
Most folks inside Nissan won’t hesitate to admit that the Maxima has lost its way a bit. It’s a car that once sat proud as a sporty alternative to the Camry or Accord, and for a while, Nissan even called it the Four-Door Sports Car (a “4DSC” sticker adorned one corner of the rear window on models in the early nineties.) Now, the car sits awkwardly on top of the Altima that, in some ways, is actually a better car.
That will all change in 2009 when Nissan will dig into its past and make the Maxima a four-door sports car once again. We haven’t seen the future Maxima, but has been described to us as “unlike anything we’ve ever done” by more than one Nissan insider. Expect a concept version of the car to debut next winter at a major auto show as part of Nissan’s fiftieth anniversary celebration (which will also include the production GT-R and a new Z-car.) It should be an aggressive, MERCEDES-BENZ CLS-STYLE car sharing some cues with Nissan’s other halo vehicles. The new Maxima will use the same VQ engine family found throughout the Nissan/Infiniti range, but to prevent the car from cannibalizing G35 sales, it will most likely remain front-wheel drive. A diesel model is also planned, and it could end up being the high-performance range-topper. We’re excited.
hello new maxima
I LOVE THIS CAR!!! It’s the first viable concept I’ve seen these last few days… I didn’t even waste time commenting on the others. I love the interior especially, and the body styling is really nice… CLS hints everywhere… This should be the new Maxima. What would be really cool was if those rear hinged doors could make it to production, but it’s highly unlikely. And the panoramic glass roof coupled with no C pillars make for a very nice, very interesting design, but I wonder how it would fare in rollover tests. Minor changes could sort that out though.
That said, it is a very, very nice concept. Hell, I would buy it exactly as it is… in a different color, of course.
As a side note, I wonder if a version of the ATESSA AWD would be too much too ask?
I think they should sell this as the next Q series. I say Q series because I doubt they would use the 4.5 engine again in their flagship model
NOT GAY!!
Complete ripoff of the Benz CL taillights. Otherwise nice.
There’s a little lexus, a little cadillac and a little benz. and it looks good.
I don’t know why, but this car reminds me of a Camry.
Great looking car!!!! Hope the next Maxima springs off this platform.
I’m thinking this is the 2010 Infiniti M37 or M50. Looking at the wheelbase, it’s larger than the G35. The wheels look production-ready versus the 22″ bling-masters you normally see on sporting concepts. All it needs is a front roof cross-member (for structural integrity and safety) and a more standard, airbag equipped steering wheel. The only real designer wackyness is the perfume, water, and matching purse (which could be produced anyway).
BTW, I’m really feeling this ice blue/camel combo.
I see a good side, a bad side, and a “meh” side to this concept.
Good side: The interior is AWESOME.
Bad side: The exterior. Dunno what people are raving about, it looks like a little Infiniti with every bad Toyota and Lexus cue piled on top of it.
“Meh” side: I still don’t get the fascination with the VQ engine. Granted, the HR version is incredible, but unless a production model of this concept gets the HR engine, it will be decidedly average. The DE engine that is supposedly so great in the Altima is very lackluster. When I can outpace a 270hp 3,200lb Altima in my 260hp 3,500lb G6, then you know Nissan needs to learn something about torque curves in their mainstream cars.
That looks very cool! I agree that it will probably be an Infiniti.
1115: I think they should sell this as Nissan maxima or Intima, but it seems like datsun gets all the cool versions
Its not a Datsun you idiot. If you will call it anything you should be calling it a Renault
The RX is not the Highlander, the TL is not the Accord
I love the way you try and down the Japanese car but whether it be an Accord Highlander Datsun or Camry they are still better than anything GM comes out with
Someone call Mercedes, Nissan is stealing their design. Way too much like the CLS, but not nearly as pretty.
tripleonefluffer: How am I “downing the japanese car?” Let me say this straight out:
I imagine this car will be really good when it comes to production. Nissan’s worst car is still pretty good.
You understand that, fluffer-boy?
Who else believes your crap about the “RX” and “TL” being anything other than a gussied up mommy wagon and commuter coffin, respectively.
I won’t even dignify your last typed turd with a response
I call ‘em as I see ‘em, and my word is the law
datsuns quality was so friggin bad they needed to rename the entire company, but the turnout was nice i like the new datsun….er nissan.
My first car was a Datsun B210. That thing was insane. With a couple of Mikuni carbs and a de-smogged intake, it would out run a lot of cars on the road and get 40+ MPG. Then you’d hit a curve and feel the leaf springs strain to keep 1600 lbs on the road…
Makes me sad now to see ‘basic transportation’ getting so fat. We want living rooms on wheels, not stripped down beaters that turn every trip to work into a roller coaster ride.
“Head-giver” … WRONG … just some water, my phallus and your mom.
Kinda neat. What would make or break the deal is what’s under the hood.