Honestly, the Vince character comes off as a Mustang GT character.

"Looks like you got all the help you need brother!" 💨

I always loved the fact Vince drove a 4 door "sleeper" unlike the rest of the crew. That Maxima was perfect

I actually like the choice for a Maxima.

I know the guy who owns the actual movie car!!! He is local and I can confirm that the car sounds EXACTLY like it does in the movie!!! Supercharger just screams even at idle!! It's so cool lol

300ZX TT would’ve been the most obvious and perfect choice for Vince since they were on the theme of Nissan.

Craig always putting out the most informative f&f content, always makes my day when this man uploads

Back in 2002 I was a manager at an autoparts store in the city, one of my workers whose day job was a mechanic and he was into the import scene. He bought a loaded auto maxima for his daily driver, he gutted it removed the interior, carpet, door panels, headliner, ac, removed the power leather seats for a single cloth bucket, he even removed the power window mechanism, even went to the extreme of cutting the metal out of the door facing the interior and replaced the side glass with fixed lexan. He planned on putting a full roll cage in it later. He said he did all that to save weight and go faster when he planned to hit the drag strip on the weekends but didn't do a thing to the engine. I asked him why he did that if it was his daily and not touch the engine or suspension and he said buying the car cleaned him out so he had to save for that and he didn't want to wait to do something to it. Well it was summer about 88 degrees and since it was in the city during rush hour, he got stuck in traffic and basically came in to work soaking wet with sweat. Everyday that summer when he came to work I'd go wooo how about this heat, he'd give me the dirtiest look.

One of the coolest Maximas I've seen, back then! That year model of Maxima, that Craig owned, is still revered today (it had a traditional transmission, CVTs weren't a thing yet)...Fun fact the Infiniti i30 is the Infiniti version of that Maxima!

I am the current owner of the Maxima. It’s a great car and thanks Craig for the great video and information. I do want to make one point though. In the video you mentioned that we met at fuel fest. I’ve never been to fuel fest or met you in person. I would never be rude and walk away from you like that. Anyone who knows me will tell you I am not that person. Hopefully we can meet one day maybe this year at Fuel Fest.

Lowkey a z32 would of been a good option same aura and everything from the max just on the z32 I wouldn’t be mad but still love the maxima

I daily drive a BMW and a Mercedes in the summer and winter months, respectively, but I will forever swear by these 4th generation Maximas. This movie just made me want one even more when I was younger. I still have my '96 GLE Auto, and '99 SE 5MT, with the same Stillen kit.

weird how they gave vinc a maxima even though he is more of main character and gave leon a freaken R33. i woulda switch those 2 cars around with the characters just my opinion though but maybe there was a reason for it

the Maxima is my all time fav!!!

I bought me that year maxima it was v6 5spd very very very rare in hawaii it was quick AF. Than i heard vince had nitrous so i put a wet 25hp, i grew up with NITROUS SBC so i was familiar also had the parts from my nova. Im only 37 so i grew up in the middle of all this.

To bad that the budget wasn’t big enough cause a Z32 300ZX would’ve worked perfect for Vince

I like this car as it's not something you automatically assosciate with street racing at the time, so it gives a bit more depth to Vince and makes him look like more of a connoisseur. Even the Jetta looks like something a racer might have had with the VR6 (I know it didnt) but a Maxima... It's interesting.

The car would have been worth more if they'd kept the damage from the fight scene on the car but that's just in terms of value to collectors, nice to know the car is still owned and loved. The franchise may not like cars very much but its nice to see those involved and the fans of the firdt couple movies do love cars.

of course it was a bad choice , his fuel map had a nasty hole , That's why he was unloading in third !!

The Maxima was my fav from the first movie, simply due to that awesome footage and raw audio of Vince leaving.

And that STILLEN SC kit is still hard to find nowadays

Love the insight of the Maxima. Always thought “why”? It makes a lot more sense now.

I feel like when Jesse said "just tune the NOS timer and you'll run 9s" he was being sarcastic. In other words, he didn't actually mean it would run 9s. He just meant it would be fast.

One of my favourite cars from the first movie. And that scene was epic.

I remember hearing the automatic transmission during the burnout scene but didn’t hate it. I loved the Maxima in the movie

Yes. The Maxima was always advertised as Nissans sport sedan rocking a very solid 3.0 V6.

Viper blue with the stillen graphic alone was definitely 👌 for the car

The Maxima was a great choice as it helps flesh out a spectrum of cars in the movie (especially among Dom's team) that in turn was part of a wider collective of elements that made the movie relatable or 'accessible' as they say. It wasn't all just the most famed, expensive, flashiest shaped or lesser-produced-numbers-cars being used. The Shark graphic was also perfect for Vince given the fiery nature of his character, and like the Muscle-man rocket on Dom's RX-7, it contrasts well with the plainer rocket designs of the 240, Jetta and R33. I love all the particular details and visual balances that went into the first film, funny thing is that I've been piecing together a motorsport film concept for a few years myself and am still struggling to decide what 2 cars should be used for a road race scene even though I have the characters pretty well developed.

Chris, I’d love to see you make a video on the cars you would give each character if you went back in time with an unlimited budget and full creative control and remade the movie.

All things considered, it was not a bad choice. Many years ago I owned a 96 Maxima Se 5spd in grandpa gold, best sleeper jdm around, I only did headers and a nice cat delete. Very well made car, does not even exist in today's market, 5 speed n/a v6, Japanese quality, leather, sunrroof digital climate control, bose speakers, low cabin noise etc. That generation maxima might be one of best fwd sedans ever mass produced. If Universal did not need a duplicate car I think any generation z car even 60-80s. would have been the perfect fit. A small car fits his character. Runner up would have to be Vince just wanting to take Mia out in his Miata. Lol might have changed that cars reputation as a chick car seeing little Mazda peel away.

I thought the Maxima was logical because even back then there was always someone that had an out of place car in the group. Back in my day there was this dude that had a V6 Mustang in a group of imports. He tried to make it faster but back in 1999 there wasn’t many options. In the end his car was beaten in a race by every other member lol. Come to think of it he had a similar mindset to the Vince character. The only car that didn’t fit to me at 18 was the R33. I was familiar with the Skyline through watching JGTC and of course Gran Turismo. Back then any Skyline was out of the question

Nice to see a story where the car was not destroyed in the end.

The one thing that I appreciate is that this car had its actual engine sound and didn't have something else in its place like dom's RX7. You could tell it was original especially from the scene that Vince does the burnout. I love that scene 😅

I had a 20th anniversary maxima 5 speed in 2003 it had every bolt on under the sun carbon fiber everything all high dollar parts had the car for 10 years and beat lots of cars but yes the one in the movie was pretty nice the 1st fast and furious will always be my favorite I like the channel and like always God bless 🙌

I owned a 92Se 5 speed maxima, when I saw this car I HAD to get me a 4th gen. I still have my 98 20 years later.

I had a 2002 Maxima SE I built for commuting too. What a great car. I miss it.

This was actually my favourite car from the movie... loved it when Vince did a burnout just trying to pull off and you can hear that supercharger scream

Craig's Maxima is the definition of bought a daily need a daily 😂 casually dropped about 10k in mods

That 3000GT with the blue white looks sick 😍😍😍😍😍

Terrible choice, Vince's Maxima was the ideal candidate to use the 300ZX. I remember pricing back in the year 2000 and you could pick up running reasonably clean 300ZX's for 5 to $6,000. Nice twin turbos under 10K

I'll always love the car guy saga. Buys daily driver "I kinda want to modify it, but I'm not gonna go crazy" Goes crazy "Damn, I need a daily driver"

Unpopular opinion, but I always liked the Maxima, we didn't have them in the UK to my knowledge

lol when he described the upgrades, he sounded like me telling my wife the same stuff

I personally think the perfect car for Vince and for the film would’ve been a 300ZX turbo.

Fun fact, first vq in North America. The auto is very reliable, but this car is much more fun with stick.

I liked that car, Maximas were and still are cool, the old ones of course.

atleast it wasn't as ugly as Bow wow hulk car

That maxima was so clean. My first car was a 01 max my mom gave me 😂 I thought I was the shi 😂 😂

I was 15 at the time and my dad loved Maxima's and had multiple ones that he fixed up and made faster. So it was so cool at the time seeing a maxima in this movie. One day I want one to fix up like he did

The maxima was waaay underrated

strange they used the actual audio for the burnout scene, when most of the other cars had sounds edited in post production

awesome stillen supercharged Maxima

Fantastic!!! Thanks for all the amazing informed info and brilliant videos!

I'd love a Maxima to drive daily. It'd be a fun contrast to my 86 Z31...I have an 87-89 front, spoiler and skirts on it tho, so it doesn't look quite as ancient but still OG ^_^

I own the Maxima and I think John may have been the guy who you talked to at Fuelfest. He told me he was there and talked to Craig for a bit. I personally have never been to Fuelfest.

3:53 - They didn't like the graphics... Then they purposely CHOSE the dumb graphics for the cars like the nuclear shark and nuclear gladiator...

I’m so glad I found your channel about these cars I always been a fan I wish the maxima got more screen time I loved the style of it with the shark wish Mia’s gsr integra got more screen time also but that scene with Vince and the burnout I always wondered why the car bogged down 👌🏽👍🏽❤️

I got to be in a caravan with the F&F maxima with Craig Lieberman from Florida to nopi nationals in Georgia back in the early 2000’s with my 94 integra GSR and it was red…Edwin didn’t do us teg guys any favors 😝🤦🏼‍♂️ that was an awesome weekend! Good times that I miss…the car scene was better and the people compared to now😞

I had an 2003 maxima se with black interior and also an auto and the 3.5L. Also it was 1 of 500 that had the factory upgraded GPS panelveiw for that year. Was pretty reliable and a daily driver.

Craig going through his "dont mod your daily" life lessons. Kinda paid off for him, though.

memories, my 1st car. Had a 1996. Kept it from 2005 to 2015. SE , evergreen, stillen body kit, drop, wheels, apexi AFC and full exhaust (350z muffler) . It was a 5speed. 13.4 sec at the 1/4 miles and 5.5 sec 0-60. Had ton of fun. very very reliable. every time I took it, i red line it, and no issue at all. reached 300k km before selling it.

If you came for the car just skip the long opening and repeat add in every video to 2:45

Imagine it was a 300ZX, those car prices woulda went thru the ROOF

Awesome! Thanks for another great and informative video Craig.

I love the Viper blue color, Craig. One of my favorite shades. Thanks for the information.

11:20 SHOULD HAVE LEFT IT LIKE THAT! Would have made for a nice piece of history. Of course at this time nobody thought these movies would be anything good at all..

Ive always loved my nissans, trucks and cars. Back when i was 19 i had a white 99 Nissan sentra SE limited, 5 speed manual with a SR20 (fwd version obviously), same 2.0 dohc they had in maximas around 98-99 i believe. I wish i still had that car, drove great, had good power, sunroof, black interior, the SE limited had a more sporty body trim kit and a big oem carbon fiber looking rear trim across the trunk. I put a injen cold air intake, lowering springs, tinted the windows and taillights and corner lenses, got some black with chrome lip msr 17's and ofcourse a proper 6" exhaust pipe😅 Ive only ever seen 2 other sentras like that my whole life, havnt seen one in years. Sentras and maximas were far from cool back then (and kinda still now), but that specific sentra would really be a rarity today. It was a 200sx with a 5 speed, sr20 and 4 doors, 180hp. 😅

I would have left the dent in the back. That would've been pretty cool. Awesome video as usual!

That's crazy for a commuter car.

Just noticed for the first time, at the 4:00 min mark of this video, Paul wreccks the R34 and there is obviously no airbag and he has no seatbelt/safety harness on.

Vince should have been in that foxbody. That would have fit his character perfectly!

I loved your 4th gen in this movie. They were great bulletproof cars which is why I owned 2 4th gen’s and a 3rd 😅

I doubt you read all the comments, but I have an idea for a shirt. Maybe a Johnny Tran s2000, with "Too soon Jr." . I always cracked up at that line. Anyway thanks for the consistent videos. Great content!

I like the Maxima.

these maximas had potential to build into jdm spec cefiros and with impul bodykit, so cool

Please do videos about your cars. The supercharged mustang, Isuzu,and others.

The only other car that fit worse than this Maxima, was the Jetta at Race Wars.

A mate has one of the manual SMX maximas. Only 20 made.

Tastefully done. I had some Sir Michaels parts on my Ford Lightning. Great Quality Products.

I had to get rid of my Lexus GS400 in 2014 I got T-boned in the winter time. I love that car i only had few bolt-ons and beat a few Mustangs Camaro with it. Plus it was reliable and comfortable. Awesome channel 👍

Vince looks like he drives a hellcat swapped magnum wagon

I love these stories!

I always loved that Maxima! My favorite car of the series

That Maxima from the first movie made me get a 01 Maxima i would like to get 1999 Maxima and try to build a replica of the car. Wonder if it will be hard to do but im willing to do it.

I honestly loved this car from the get go and love the graphics. I personally owned a 2009 maxima sv and had planned on doing a modern version of the car but ended up selling it

At 12:08 Are those some Racing Hart wheels with hex nut locking center caps? Awesome that your wife’s GS was tastefully modded too. What spring/shock combination was she running at the time?

Just got the hot wheels of it a couple weeks ago. Years ago wanted to supercharge my maxima, the forums had everything you needed even someone that could make the supercharger plate to mount it to the engine. Haven't been on the forums in a long time so idk if it's still possible to get everything to do a 4th Gen build

4th gen maxima is an absolute classic. I had a 1996 5spd SE, front and rear end facelifted to 97-99 style, stillen kitted, best car I’ve ever owned! miss that car to this day! 😂

The Impreza was such under used car in the origin story.. they missed how iconic it would become but i remember you saying the wrx wasn't out for another year.. Some of the choices seem bizarre now..at the time we were just starved for anything so it got a pass

10:23 And its essentially a band aid to a badn aid, such as a "bleed off valve" like you see some people put on "budget" turbo cars. You bleed off a bit of boost before the waste gate spring/sensor sees it, Tricking the engine into running more boost than it knows is there (because you are bleeding off some before it can sensor it). Doing this without the band aid causes massive lean conditions when shifting and often the cause of subarus shitting pistons. The extra band aid feeds additional fuel on top to help richen the mixture making it more safe. Man the goofy stuff we did back then to get more power.

Vince needed a Camaro. He was definitely a Camaro guy!

I think it really fit VInce. A big guy trying to seem bigger and more important than he is. Leon drives the fastest car in the crew but is laidback. Vince drives a flashy car without too much merit. Status over quality. (No diss meant for your build)

yall should've got a Nissan Cifero A31 it looks like a Maxima but it's RWD I seen one in drift set up it looked clean the front headlights make it kinda look like a 4 door s13.

If they wanted to keep in Tuner cars Vince should have being in a 300zx it would have suited him more but I feel he should have being in an old ruff American muscle with a massive engine in it to go against the pack

I seen it in Branson Mo a few years back very clean 👌 👍

Now we need to know what happened to that awesome bmw!

I honestly think you guys did amazing on the choices of cars I didn't realise the maxima was that good of a car and I'm glad the dodge neon didn't get a spot even though the srt4 got really hyped

The maxima was always weird to me, in Australia it is such a grandpa car. I think something old school like a 240z would be perfect.

The maxima is a sick build. You got me into to stillen Craig

I love these stories. My brother had a 1996 Maxima at the t8me of this movie. It was a pretty fast car at the time. 6:36 One of my pet-peeves in the car community. Big brake kits are not needed just because horsepower is increased. It might sound good in theory but it's absolutely not true in the real world. Most people will never drive their cars hard enough to make use of bigger brake calipers. Performance brake pads and good tires is all 99.9% of cars need, modified or not. Just an FYI. Not an attack.