Saw one of these this morning

"and 100 more" (nth256) 09/19/2017 at 10:37 • Filed to: None

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I feel like the 2nd-gen Infiniti G20/G20t has aged rather well in the looks department.

If you can find one that isn’t beat to a pulp and falling apart, they still look rather handsome.

Obviously a product of the 90's, it still has an understated charm to it. Like a classier Corolla of the same era.

Or a MkIV Jetta with some actual style.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > and 100 more 09/19/2017 at 10:40

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An ex of mine had the G20, I really liked it! Hers was in excellent shape.

Klaus Schmoll > and 100 more 09/19/2017 at 11:22

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Nissan Primera. Came in sedan, hatchback, and wagon form, all of them a bland meh-car.

Amoore100 > Klaus Schmoll 09/19/2017 at 11:57

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Slap some Infiniti badges on there and it’ll become “Inspired Performance”

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > and 100 more 09/19/2017 at 13:27

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nissan primera?

if so.. theres roughly a bazillion of them still knocking about in europeland.. and they’re dirt cheap

KnowsAboutCars > and 100 more 09/19/2017 at 15:09

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The Euro facelift looks pretty good too.

kanadanmajava1 > KnowsAboutCars 09/19/2017 at 16:29

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These look good in racing trim.

Nauraushaun > and 100 more 09/19/2017 at 19:49

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That’s just a fucking Pulsar!

and 100 more > Nauraushaun 09/19/2017 at 21:08

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So?

Nauraushaun > and 100 more 09/20/2017 at 03:29

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INFINITI BADGES DON’T MAKE IT PREMIUM

and 100 more > Nauraushaun 09/20/2017 at 07:08

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Not that you’re wrong, but you’re about 20 years too late to argue the point.

I just said that the style holds up well today. Maybe I’m wrong and just nostalgic for late 90s car design.

Premium or not, I just think it still looks good.

Nauraushaun > and 100 more 09/20/2017 at 08:16

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Sorry, Australia never really had any Infinitis, I’m just now learning of this.

I agree though. The N15 is a nice design.

and 100 more > Nauraushaun 09/20/2017 at 10:36

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LOL! No worries, I knew Infiniti wasn’t a global brand, but I didn’t realize that you guys don’t get them. I was surprised to learn that Australia got the Mitsubishi 380, which was similar to a 9th-gen Galant, and looked exactly like one, but was NOT the same thing apparently.

I’m a sucker for econoboxes of that era, for some reason. I’m sure most of them drove like meh when new, and had so-so reliability, but looks-wise I just like ‘em.

Like the MkIV Jetta that I maligned in my original post, I actually love that design! It so simple and clean and geometric. And yet the Audi A4 of that same generation, which shared the same platform, had this smooth, rounded aesthetic, which looked just as good, IMO.

and 100 more > Klaus Schmoll 09/20/2017 at 10:39

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So bland, so generic, so...

Me wants it.

Nauraushaun > and 100 more 09/20/2017 at 18:25

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We have had them. I saw a 90s Infiniti once. But they sold barely any. We also have them at the moment but their sales are abysmal:

This year marks Infiniti’s fifth birthday in this country. In 2012 it sold 85 units. Last year it tallied 807 sales – but in a market where Lexus sold 9000 and Mercedes-Benz 42,000.

I think that’s all based on the Magna, originally a Galant made bigger by slicing the car down the middle to widen it. But the Magna fell out of favor so the 380 was a last ditch attempt to make the idea work. Fast forward to today and the Commodore and Falcon are dead or dying - big sedans are over and it’s not the Magna’s fault!

They might not have been so meh! There was a turbo SSS, and without all the safety stuff, these were light chuckable cars!

I agree.