+matt k I didn't even pay attention to cars at that age. And judging on the year, I am probably about your age. I really only started caring about cars in high school.

Shaun damn

I know the feeling man. My mom had a 2005 one. instead of feeling embarrassed when my mom picked me up I was proud xD

matt k how did your mom have such good taste? My dad makes $135K a year and my mom always insisted on driving the shittiest Ford Windstar or Buick Rendezvous, both in base trim.

My Dad got a black on black 91 Caprice that year. You may have felt like a badass in your mom's Nissan, but I can assure you that you were not.

@SuperRegal79 without a doubt…

Acura Legend too!! Cadillac and Lincoln had a dated style back in the 90s they still had the 70s and early 80s boxy styled cars, but both of them got their act together and started updating their car styles

@DC Williams You sure about that?

@DC Williams they're all ugly as hell. I HATE HATE HATE A pillars the size of 4x4 lumber posts...

For about 2 years until the Germans brought their V8s. Infiniti V8s were famous for blowing up if you drove them hard at all.

Chris Dooley I think that it's really cool to see the cars that came out when I was a kid. This Q45 came out the year I was born.

jtb1990419 big difference then to now for you - shit I was born twenty years before you and the cars of the 80's and 90's were what I grew up with and learned to drive. I'm glad you can appreciate these vehicles - many innovations from these times that were considered 'rare' have found there way into cars of today. Nowadays multi cam VVT V8s are everywhere but were still hi-tech in cars like this Q :)

Chris Dooley this period of cars were my favorite as they were the last era before the bubble shape took over everything, making all cars look the same. You are also correct about the technology of this era. No one thought that DOHC 32-valve V8 engines would be popular. Now they are relatively common. I would have loved this Q45 or a Lexus LS400 from the era as my first car, but my budget didn't reach that far. My first car was a 1994 Buick Park Avenue Ultra in all black with the supercharged 3.8. It was a boat, but I loved its looks and performance. Now I have a 2006 3.3 DOHC V6 Hyundai Sonata, which I also love but don't feel that it is as unique. It is like a bouncy castle on wheels with six airbags in the seats, side curtain, and the standard driver and passenger areas. I would have called someone crazy when I was a kid if they would have told me that!

because people cant appreciate anything.

This aged well

I love how mine drives. even on the OE struts. the lack of roll is astonishing.

Haven't seen a Q45a on the road in probably 20 years.

777jones haha yeah if only I could fix the active on mine.

Good luck finding one

that sucks lol get rid of the spouse… i’ll never sell my ls400

Time to go enjoy some newer beauty, many great cars have come and gone since these and many were better in every way.

lol

kz1000ps its cold in zonieland in winter

actually the colors change! just not the style.

yep

he just lies about the location.

It lasted a long time.

Thank heavens, thus why some are on the road still.

0-60 in 6.9 sec bebe

noobz My '15 V6 Cadenza can do that and get 34 mpg on the highway. My how cars have progressed.

I always like mustangs but 220 hp from a 5.0 compared to this ? Amazing machine from nissan they should have put it in a sports car i know the v6 tt its nice but still.

Sure was!! I drive one for 3 weeks back in 1995. The big boat could move. And was rear wheel drive so mine would sometimes fish tail if pushed too hard. Would scare me half to death!

Then they all blew up, didn’t even make 50k most of them.

di foo!! Your sarcasm has been noted.

Hahaha. you slay me.

lmao. I love how its not related to the engines anymore. 😂

+di foo!! That 7 Liter Inifinity Q70! Hot damn! I know it comes in 3.7L and 5.6L and a 3.5L hybrid. I totally agree that a Q56 would make the most sense to cars gars and Infititi past customers but it appears they are taking the route the Germans are and keeping or bringing back numbers of the past to reconnect the buyer with the old one but that's just confusing! Displacement is important which is why I call every original 5.0 Mustang it's proper 4.9L name.

di foo!! I know, right? Infiniti even had a "good" idea with the late 90's with the revised 4.1 liter Q45. They probably had to join the BMW and Mercedes bandwagon of naming their cars after engine displacements that were wrong.

Why did the Q45 fail to take the crown from the Maxima, anyway?

​@@ClassicTVMan1981Xbecause people don't appreciate RWD cars with v8s anymore sadly. Same happened with lexus GS. The ES outlived the sporty GS.

@@shawndon7374 I liked the muscle car V-8s from 1971 and earlier, but their ratings were in GHP (gross HP), which was done by testing the engine independent from the vehicle it's installed in, and such tests were done with the flywheel alone with no accessories attached.

Me too. No wonder many didn't like the q45 as most people have gaudy taste for chrome and wood.

I agree. Cars nowadays are going for that futuristic spaceship look. They are starting to look the same.

+jeffrey exposito everything after 2005 maybe 2008 started looking cookie cutter.

+Mike Czenkus Cars don't look futuristic, we just live in the future.

@@kupidzheart My Charger still sets itself apart. A RWD V8 powered sedan is a dying breed.

Part of the trouble with the lack of character today is that the brands have tended to converge on a single idea for what each class of car should drive like. Back then a midsize luxury car from any of the luxury makes would drive very differently from one another. Today they drive pretty similarly, the main difference is how they are "dressed."

Timothy Horning not for many years lol

I wonder if he still secretly pines for them.

Maestro_T he has a bespoke oil pressure gauge in a pocketwatch case that he will hand hand down to his grandson one day, and his grandson will treasure it forever

I agree. I can easily see one of these lasting 50 years with proper maintenance and repair, the bodies simply do not rust. As far as the supposedly way better LS400, time has proven that myth wrong. Infiniti sold less than 60,000 q45's between 1990 and 1996, probably less than a third of LS400 sales over the same time period, so why is it an even rarer sight for me to see LS400's? I still see the odd q45 roaming around...

Nissan clearly went downhill in the last 25 years. I think Toyota did too.

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+Mathew Saenz I just started watching these. I have a feeling I'll be up all night watching!

Mathew Saenz I noticed the third sponsor! They're at only one sponsor currently :(

That was the sound of YOU humming along.

You're not alone I'm watching one after another 😂

I’ve been watching this show forever. I’m 42, and since I was like 8ish, I watched this show on the local PBS affiliate KQED (probably starting around 1984) since Day 1, John and Gosses Garage have been a treat to watch! They still make the TV show!

Not only that but this model Q45 did it in 6.9 sec 0-60. That's dang fast for its time.

@@rockefelleragent1357 not really...

theodore Dow-man that's faster than a 1990 golf gti

DB103Freak no. The Emperor is the Q45. Not the Q45 is the Emperor

DB103Freak haha i had one in white in one of my garages

Nah, Q45 is the Merit from San Andreas

@@ScubaSteveM45 The Emperor has the grille-less front end of the Q45 (almost unique to the Q45, except for a Passat of the same time) as well as the taillights. The Merit was probably the Mazda 929 from the '90's. It had curvy lines.

@@MaestroTJS I'll have to look for one next time I play. I owned a 1994 Q45 with the bigger chrome slat grille and that does match the Merit in the front and sides pretty well

K Bed Love this reference.

He don't think what to drive. Lexus way better

My hoopdie rolln tailpipe dragging.

That's the line that brought me to this video

First thought that comes to mind every time I see this car.

@admiT iT i makE yoU hornY No, it wasnt... Just a mistified Mercedes copycat.

Q45 had more personality. Its not a shameless Mercedes lookalike.

J30 was my first car! Rear wheel drive V6 and fun as hell to drive!! So much so, my second car was a J30t. Man I miss those cars!

bliglum I agree on that. I'd love to have one and have almost bought one in the past. The Q45 is also good, though, and I'd love to have a '94 model with the updated styling. A '94 BMW 740 is the grail for me, though!

You can get an excellent example of any o those for $3000, but you will have to search a long time to find any good one.

'94 BMW 740 is the grail for you? That's quite attainable man!! Go and get it! Life's too short to wait.

Lmao 😂

Why "don't drive it in the snow"???

+nezerac Especially for the 1990 year!

David Wendel I know right? I drove one and I wasn't impressed until I slammed the pedal to the floor. Bottom end is lacking but man...once it gets up there it's something to behold. Only thing is nissan/infiniti is known for complicating things to no end. I tried repairing one of these and couldn't find the issue. I thought I was a failure until the customer reported several shops had it for days at a time and never figured out the reason for it's failure. It had the strangest no-start condition I've ever seen. Only thing i figured could be the issue was the igniter but the customer told me a shop ruled it out (not sure if that's true or not). She ended up selling it for 500 bucks. -_-

'sensor' on the gear shifter telling the car its 'in gear' tgerefore wont start... i bet sometimes it started and sometimes it didnt tap the gear shifter forward while in park and then try to start it for future refrence.

Supercars? No, I think you mean high-end luxury cars. Even Nissan's own 300ZX turbo at this time could do a 5.5 second 0-60 time. But true luxury cars prior to this point were underpowered poor handling boats. This changed the game, particularly with American manufacturers.

Uh, no, not really.

@@VideoAmericanStyle actually @Doobie1975 is correct. In the real world any fast car of this era with an automatic transmission had a huge advantage to sports cars with manual transmissions because even though they might have been slightly quicker on paper there was a 90% chance on the street the people driving them wouldn’t be able to drop the clutch at high RPM and hit every gear perfectly. I remember Car and Driver Magazine got 0-60 in 6.7 seconds for their Q45 in the day. If a Ferrari Testarossa was 5.3 and a Lamborghini Countach was 5.5 I guarantee you in 90% of conditions there wouldn’t be much in it between these cars as both of those were notoriously hard to get out of the hole without causing expensive clutch wear

Gary James OMG Youre right!

The 1994 refresh looked better and had more of a mature fancier appeal than the 1990-1993 grill

In the beginning they went after Cadillac and Lincoln buyers. But didn't understand their desire for more conservative looks. If they had tried marketing to BMW/Mercedes drivers, like they did later, the grill (or lack of) would have been easier to accept.

HELL YA that's the first thing I noticed

nope...i had one. they are a lil expensive...but not german territory

Julius McDow Agreed. I see some of the same switchgear in my Passat in my friend's Audi A5.

aayonce4 To be technical- a traditional sunroof is metal, like the body of the car, on the theory it would only be used on sunny days but won't let excess heat in like glass would. Moonroofs are made with glass as it wouldn't have that temperature problem.

There arent many left. Get one while you can