Generation Gap: Nissan Cima Edition

"Amoore100" (amoore100) 09/09/2015 at 20:42 • Filed to: Generation Gap, Nissan Cima, Infiniti Q70, Infiniti Q45, Mitsubishi Dignity

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Welcome to Generation Gap where we ask you about your favorite generation of a certain multi-generational car nameplate. Then, explain why your choice is right to the rest of us uneducated folks.

Back in the Land of the Rising Sun for this week’s Generation Gap, we have a nameplate that is revered (well, at least respected) in Japan but very obscure to the American citizen. The car in question is the Nissan Cima (name derived from Spanish word for ‘summit’) whose latter generations have been mirrored in Infiniti’s U.S. market cars. The question though, as always, is does the new beat the old?

The options:

First Generation [1988 - 1991] Y31

Second Generation [1991 - 1996] Y32

Third Generation [1996 - 2001] Y33 aka Infiniti Q45 FY33

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Fourth Generation [2001 - 2010] F50 aka Infiniti Q45 F50 and facelift (for both)

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Fifth Generation [2012 - Present] Y51 aka Infiniti Q70L aka Mitsubishi Dignity

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Axial > Amoore100 09/09/2015 at 20:45

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First gen, but the first pic of the fourth gen looks pretty damn good. Fifth can GTFO.

Amoore100 > Axial 09/09/2015 at 20:47

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First is ripe for US import, and 10/10 I would totally grille swap an Infiniti for any Cima generation...I don’t hate the Fifth mainly because I kind of like its bulgy styling (heinous, I know) and I appreciate all of them in a kind of JDM style way...

dogisbadob > Amoore100 09/09/2015 at 20:49

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Too bad the US versions never had hood ornaments :(

MLGCarGuy > Amoore100 09/09/2015 at 20:54

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Amoore100 > dogisbadob 09/09/2015 at 20:55

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Definitely. Hood ornaments add instacool VIP style when affixed to a large Japanese luxobarge...

Amoore100 > MLGCarGuy 09/09/2015 at 20:56

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Very accurate.

Bird > Amoore100 09/09/2015 at 21:01

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Y31 all the way. If a nice stock one pops up at the JDM auctions in the next couple weeks, I’ll be bringing one in.

This one is done just right...

Noah - Now with more boost. > Amoore100 09/09/2015 at 21:35

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Y33, because she's MINE. :)

Noah - Now with more boost. > Bird 09/09/2015 at 21:45

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Pillarless!? damn.

Amoore100 > Bird 09/10/2015 at 00:06

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What a beauty! Personally not sold on the color but everything else is amazing! It looks like a bigger car than I had expected, with a longer trunk than my example image suggested...

Amoore100 > Noah - Now with more boost. 09/10/2015 at 00:06

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Indeed, that is quite staggering...

Amoore100 > Noah - Now with more boost. 09/10/2015 at 00:07

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Awesome! Really love these things, would like to have one someday...

JDMatt > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 01:30

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Now the next time I see an Infiniti Q70 (If I ever see one), my brain wil want to call it a mitsubishi dignity

Amoore100 > JDMatt 09/10/2015 at 01:40

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Well then you should see my article a few weeks back on the Mitsubishi Proudia, the Dignity’s shortwheelbase cousin (basically what the Fuga is to the Cima...)

Nauraushaun > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 03:14

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We never got any if these in Australia. But I done seen one once, was beautiful.

Amoore100 > Nauraushaun 09/10/2015 at 03:19

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Agree, same case in America for the first few generations...we can import them now though, so time to search Goo-Net!

Noah - Now with more boost. > Amoore100 09/10/2015 at 11:29

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Thanks! YOU CAN DO IT. The gas mileage is terrible but the Cima has been a wonderful car to live with so far.