Now THIS is a regular car

I appreciate how clean this car is. Nice to see an owner who treats their car so well.

Suddenly 90s Altima SEs have jumped in value...

Yay, my ride has been immortalized!

That car is clean as hell..

8:45 - 9:55 this is why I watch this channel...that was perfect.

"Under the correct track conditions, with the correct driver this 1994 Nissan Altima can keep up with a mid engine supercar." I can walk faster than a supercar under the "correct conditions"

When i look at the front end of this Altima i get the tiniest hint of the r33 skyline

This is the definition of a good 90's car. Styling is neither too bland or too extreme. Fun, reliable, simple, and still regular.

This is a shockingly clean Altima.

one of y’all better bless this man with a B15 Sentra SE-R to drive. If he enjoyed the Altima, I can’t wait to see how he’d enjoy a purpose built Sentra.

Woah RCR uploading at 9 am instead of 4 am

Did you hear that? Precisely at 0:00, you can hear the Craigslist price of every first gen Altima jumping.

Oooooh, my childhood.... my mom drove this exact car then traded it in for a 6spd manual 3.5 v6 2008 she still rips today.

The old reliable nurses, car..college students rejoiced for them!

Can we all appreciate how clean the interior of this 24 y/o (at the time of filming) car is? I hope this Altima is gracing car shows for decades to come.

This was my first car - I got it with 193000 miles and drove it till 248000 and sold it for a good amount. It was quick and drove great and didn't need any maintenance besides oil changes and brakes

I owned a 1997 Altima Limited, a GXE with a hint of SE outside and a hint of GLE inside. This was the swansong for that generation of Altima. And he's exactly right...it handled well, and the engine was the perfect balance of horsepower and torque, especially for the car's size.

The official car of "Just throw it in the front passenger area, I'll clean it _later"_

If you find a clean B13 Sentra SE R you're in for a treat, Kutztown.

"Altima can keep up with a Ferrari" and a yugo can keep up with an F40

Nissan: Cars Nissin: Noodles

The key quality this has over a new car is that it is designed for the pleasure of driving instead of posting on social media, making phone calls, using GPS, etc. If there is no screen and it has a manual transmission in a reasonably attractive body it is better than what is available today.

Those old Nissans could run forever, it's sad that their quality has gone down since then.

I had a 98 Altima GXE which had the same engine and it was awesome until the timing chain tensioner shattered to a million pieces and jumped chain. Comfy and worked really well for me. Just didnt have the money to replace the engine in my first year of college.

I call this gen Altima "the egg". These were pretty stylish back in the 90's and were EVERYWHERE around where I lived(near the Smyrna TN Nissan plant). Official first car in high school as well, there were 3 or 4 of these in the parking lot. By the late 00's though they were a rare sight on the road, I think a lot of them were wrecked/ragged out by young drivers with no money, this one looks minty fresh. Having driven a couple of them, I too was blown away with the handling, very tight, direct steering and it cornered flat. Also the build quality was top notch, way better than the garbage Nissan has been putting out since the Renault merger. As for why it didn't sell as well, maybe it was priced wrong, wrong size(it is smaller than a Camry, Buick Regal, Ford Taurus, etc), people said screw it and bought a Maxima instead.

I love RCR but to be honest I haven't been enjoying the new "track performance" focus so much. It is kind of fun to see unusual cars on a racetrack but it feels like it's pulling away from that deeper daily driver experience this channel has been so amazing at relaying. So many places do track videos but this is my only fix for Automotive philosophy and brown.

I had a 98 Altima and to this day it's still one of my favorite cars that I've owned.

stops video halfway through to go on Craigslist to search for this car

i bought a 95 altima se when i was 18 back in 1998 and I LOVED THAT CAR. it was purple!

This is so cool! I am sitting in my 1997 Nissan Altima with a 5 speed. I love this car so much more fun than other cars in its class, alot of times its even faster than the competition. My Altima has 243,000 miles and is still plenty reliable especially for $300 which is what I got mine for.

The regular ones are always the best ones. Truly, the best ones.

I had a 93 Altima XE when I was in high school, and it was great. Very reliable and fun to drive. And the first manual transmission I owned too.

Here in NZ it is called a Bluebird and it came in an SE or SSS variant. The SSS is the exact same chassis with a transverse SR20DET putting out around about 230WHP from the factory.

I feel like every car maker made better cars in the 90s.

I had a 200- sentra gxe for five or so years. Sometimes i miss that qc18de powered sprite. For a ff with only 130hp that little car could go well. Dohc sang and it loved redlining. It had slight oversteer when off power in corners. It made me fall in love with nissans.

I loved that zoom transition

I worked at a Nissan dealership when these were new. I always liked them. Back then a lot of them were actually standard which doesn’t happen today. Although I do remember they were a little pricey. Well equipped could run over 20k. You could get a Maxima for just a little more. Great review regular guy.

this looks like a bluebird. I'm an Australian. We didn't get the altima 'til like 2013

We had one of these in Silver growing up, and stayed in the family until somewhere around the 220K mile mark. It was the first new import car I remembered my parents buying. I eventually learned how to drive on it, and our 1986 Buick LeSabre wagon. To this day, this car will always be the go-kart I remember driving, and have insane nostalgia for. It was light, and nimble, and way quicker than I expected or was used to.

240sx ECU and wiring harness is a quick upgrade make good power . It lets the car respond better to upgrades and adds tune-ability Fun fact did you know there’s an all wheel drive light in the dash there is no bulb in it because the US didn’t get all wheel drive and it’s probably stolen from a truck

Crazy how clean that Altima is. Always referred to these as the baby Infiniti J30. Note, that double din is from a 98-01 (L30) Altima. And I remember the 93 Altima wore a small "Stanza" badge on the trunk lid to remind us that this was its replacement.

Yeah mr. Regular is right if track conditions were, lets say, snow, and the supercar in question has slick tires, this would certainly beat it

Love you guys the way the content is presented and the dialogue cracks me up. Down to the shadow running along side the car and the songs at the beginning and end. I totally recognize the melody of the songs..."These Days" is one of my favorites!

Having owned an altma se...i respectfully disagree with your inflated opinion of its performance capabilities

I drove a 1996 Altima for 16 years. I owned two of them; my first was from 1997-2009, second from 2009-2013. It was arguably the best car I ever had. One thing that's overlooked about this car was that it was an anomaly in the industry. At the time every Japanese car company had a small sedan and a large one. Toyota had the Camry & Corolla, Honda had the Accord & Civic, and Nissan had the Maxima & Sentra. Nissan decided to shake things up by squeezing a new car into their lineup that fell in between those two. It had the amenities and power of a Maxima but the affordability of a Sentra. Its power was also ahead of its time. To have a 4-cylinder putting out 150 horsepower was pretty unheard of at the time. Most 4-bangers back then were floating under 100 hp. It could easily hang with many V6 vehicles of the time. This is what made it a pleasure to drive for so many years. There really was no need for me to upgrade all those years! I would probably still be driving mine today had I not gotten t-boned in an accident in 2010, making the car a rattling mess at stoplights. So in 2013 I upgraded to a 2004 Toyota Solara, which I still own and drive every day.

These are little gems would love to find one like this. Great regular review B

Great video. My best friends parents bought that Altima the year they came out. His dad is a car guy that loves a nimble car. They ended up owning another one before the body got all bloated.

2.4 liters are bulletproof had one rusted around the motor lol

It's nice to see Mr. Regular becoming more comfortable around a track! Keep up the good work!

I rather have the old Altima over the new ones with the trash CVTs

Sick camera rig. Love the content. Thank you for all the entertainment you have provided.

Am I the only one who's glad to see a clean stock original 5 speed example of this car? Rather than some shitty rattlecan job with ziptied fenders a giant ass wing and cut springs?

Loved this car when it came out. A fun, "fast" good handling small sedan. I think it still looks pretty damn good.

'I would have had that Ferrari in three turns ' lol I'll race her in my automatic NA 2.0 Jetta any day.

I had a 95 SE. I did some mods to it like 300 ZX breaks, fuel pump, and injectors. Crower top end, exhaust and I Bach ground control coil overs with KYB struts and upgraded rims and tires. It was around 200 hp at the wheels and handled incredibly. So much so that I developed vertical splits in my front wheel wells. I love and miss that car so much. It is my favorite car of all time believe it or not.

Need to find an Altima SE R to review

OMG. You got to review one! Yes! I want an SE decklid for my GXE... I love the wing.

Mr. Regular, look into a b14 200sx SE-R or even SE, the little brother to this!

I had a 96 Altima SE for 8 years. Great car- no problems whatsoever in the 100K + miles I had it. I miss that thing almost as much as I miss my 89 Mazda B2200 truck.

That Ferrari bit was stupid

I remember when these were new! I drooled over the sales brochure of this, the Maxima, and the truck (hardbody but not called hardbody, just truck lol) I still love all three to this day!

I've always thought white was the only colour for these

8:02 I remember that being the same radio that was eventually put in the 1996-2000 Pathfinder, 1997-2001 Infiniti QX4 and 1997-98 Maxima. A version of it included a Bose Audio System with the branding on the Cassette Tape Deck, I used to ride in a 1998 Pathfinder as a kid with its 6-Disc CD Changer.

6:59 ooh mister fancy pants editing I see you

My dad had one of these like 15 years go....I miss that car

When you're 10? I am willing to bet that Mr. Regular still thinks he is the stoplight whisperer 😀. I hope you one day are offered a Dodge Shadow ES from the mid-90s with a V6 and standard transmission.

I got mine in 2002. It was a pearl green Special Edition and it drove really well. It had 212,000miles on it when I sold it.

Good morning yall

I posted this before but in the Middle East from 1989 to 1994, the Nissan Altima that were sold here was a rebadged Nissan Cefiro A31 while the Nissan Altima in the video was sold as the Bluebird SSS. The Cefiro A31 became popular with kids thanks to its Front Engine, rear wheel drive, easily swappable with an RB or JZ in it and that it's really cheap. Some of them are even used for burnout events or car meets over here.

Morning Mr.Regular

I had one of these and for a short time my wife had a 1995 concurrently. We both loved them. Was sorry we had to give them up.

This was my first car, Some trims came with 4 wheel disk brakes as well, this was rare for the segment in 1994.

This video is actually so timely with what happened with Carlos Ghosn today.... and how I lament what Nissan has become nowadays. Back then Nissan simply had the magic, the engineering, they had soul. My humble ‘88 PU11 Maxima is a perfect example of that. Yes it’s not the fastest, but it felt like it was. It’s VG30E would scream up to its redline happily and how fantastic that engine sounded! How light and athletic it felt but was still very comfortable and it’s 4 wheel disc brakes even with no ABS would shame other cars that had ABS. Best feeling brakes of any car I’ve driven.... and this car is still around. I still have it. B13 SE-R. Z32 Twin Turbo. 4DSC Maximas. Not to mention the Skyline GT-R. The R32 GT-R is my dream car, the one that I’d take to the track in a heart beat just to hear the RB26DETT’s siren song all the way to 8000 RPM. I can go on, but I think I’ve made my point. Now, it’s all low coast, rental grade garbage that people solely buy for price. Failure prone CVT’s, dull soulless cars like the Versa sedan. No SE-R anything. No manual Maxima. The R35 that is not a Skyline that is fast, but just with a push of a button and no driver involvement. A dated Z car that nobody wants. It’s just sad.... Ghosn did save Nissan, no doubt and he did champion the rebirth of the Z car.... but you can’t dispute the severe cost cutting he did to everything and to basically take away everything that was great about Nissan and piss it away into mediocre and failure prone cars that are second rate. It’s a damn shame.

Ahh, back before the Frenchies started to hide fancy cheeses in the bodywork.

My mom had a 97 altima gxe with a 5 speed. It was a fun car with tight steering and a crisp but forgiving shifter. In her words she always said "This is the first car I've ever owned that made me forget my 67 mustang." Even in her moderate stage of dementia, she doesn't always recognize I'm her son, but she remembers "I had a classic mustang, and I had a red altima, and I loved them both."

"brah my **insert regular car here** outruns lamoghinis I swear man got a drive gear from a skyline and it makes like 1200hp now"

My dad had that exact car except tan interior way back when i was getting my driver's license. I drove it from Dallas to Corpus Christi as a family vacation and was so happy when i heard this was gonna be my first car, just to have it stolen in corpus christi and we had to use a bus back to Dallas.

Ever gonna go back to normal videos not at a track?

Many a miles and memories of Mississippi backroad drives not going anywhere in particular, smoking it out, listening Finnish metal experiencing our first taste of freedom. My best friend got his third hand with all of 150k on the odometer, it drove like it only had 15k.That silver Altima defined our youth after we graduated high school well into our 20’s.

The official car of the GHETTOS

I 81 south bound runs parralell to my childhood home and touches our property line., sign for old exit 58, new exit 194 Clark's summit is in my backyard. And this minute of RCR, this last beautiful minute , encapsulates everything it is to live in PA , love cars, have your your youthful emotions tied to a moment in time, learn we can look back and still appreciate things we may have missed , and realize I'll prolly never drive a NSX outside of Forza, this last minute is more beautiful than any art I have heard , seen or experienced in the fact that realizing although it's a "Price is Right life", wherever my plinko chip falls, there'll be others right there with me to reminesce, enjoy and become wiser and more appreciative as we move forward, and never forget the Regular Cars we grew up, Buick century, 93 Nissan Maxima 5spd , 82 olds Cutlass couple with doors longer than a Civic. These were OUR super cars. This is Regular Car Reviews, but none of the people , cars or stories are regular my friend, they are all extraordinary... Join us and become special, become.....REGULAR

"Capable of keeping up with a supercar 20 years in the future." No. The other driver sucks. That is the reason.

My dad had one of these of a similar(I think later) vintage with the five speed. It may have been an SE, but I don't know. Of all the cars he's driven for extended periods (which I today included his father's 1978 Subaru GL which was a manual but didn't have a tach), he liked the Altima the best.

Funny how you did a nissan review today. I wonder if Carlos Ghosn was driven to court in an Altima...

Well, that is one of the smartest episodes you've put out in a while. That closing was... fantastic.

A friend bought a black 94 SE brand spankin new back in the day and I remember that car being THE SHIT. I loved the looks inside and out. I mean in good condition its still a great looking car...well IMO. Now Nissan makes SHIT (not the good kind) cars THANK YOU Renault.

I wasn't prepared to find the cure to all of our social ills in a nissan altima car review. But here we are. You. Are. Profound.

When will u review the Geo metro? The *original* Prius

More of this please! This and the 850 from last week are true “regular cars”

Review a 05-06 Nissan Altima SE R if you can find one.

My mom had one of these when I was 4... man, no one in my family had any idea what she had. I'm even more fond of this thing now.

You Need to drive an old eclipse

this editions commentary is totally the reason why i sub'ed. excellent, my hats off to you sir!

Perfect body disposal vehicle right next to a 1998 beige Toyota Camry

Like the 850 last week, this is an amazingly well kept example

The SE-R tho...

Great video. I had a 96 Altima back in the early fast and furious days and I would beat the crap out of civics and integras (except the Type R version). You forgot to mention that it also came with a limited slip differential in the 5 speed.

I have an 06 Altima SE R, 6 speed. If you guys are ever in the Toronto area you can review it!

i like how you have your personal and calm Sabine Schmitz giving pointers on the track.