2016 / 2017 Nissan Maxima Review and Road Test | Detailed In 4K UHD1 

Fred Crews suck up.

Fred Crews Wow, 3 years later and he doesn’t even say thank you! Losing touch with his subscribers!

That's mg dilemma right now. I love my 14 Maxima w/sport package, the handling is unmatched! But I want the newer Max mainly for the newer technology. How do you like the handling of the 8th gen max?

@@mr.clarke4113 54k miles later and still loving it. I'm keeping this car for many more years to come.

People trashing on the old CVT's when the entire overhaul came in 2013. Uneducated car buyers is all it is.

Half of the CVT can’t even afford a MAXIMA I drive a 2019 Altima SR and I don’t even notice a CVT I love it

Does this car have blutooth lag while playing videos on phone? Also, does the moon roof switch light up at night on the over head console?

Same with me. 2015 Altima and no CVT issues. I had the fluid flushed and changed and it has been great. I get sick of hearing the bitching about them

I need to drive a car with a CVT to see what the negativity is about. Most of the cars I've driven have regular automatics.

Stevespecs I agree I love mine, and I came from an Avalon. You really gotta drive it to see how amazing it is. Love the cvt also blowing by ppl in such low gear

+Monkey D. Luffy So is the BMW M4, yet the first thing I did to mine was unplug the fake sound.

i believe the M4 is not piped through and is just a recording of the engine in ideal situations/weather

+Monkey D. Luffy Correct, for the M4, it's essentially an audio file being played over the speakers in ideal conditions. I thought that's what the Maxima was doing also.

That's what fake engine noise is.

Yes, I did buy the car..I already finished one year now and can say that I very happy. Things that I am pleased are compliments that I used to get from people earlier (Now you have too many new Maxima on road) excellent acceleration, Smart Car application (available in Dubai) handling & interior. Things I don't like is the headroom limitation in rear middle seat, awkward hand brake (actually its on left foot) Blind spot & Seat memory that are not available on my SV trim which should have been given in a 124K priced car!! I kind of regret not buying the SR trim which is the top trim here in UAE

Patrick Wheaton The 'old' Q50 with the 3.7 V6 already has a ~30hp power advantage & has RWD which means traction is a non-issue. There's a reason why not many FWD cars pushing ~300hp exist; torque steer & steering feel. RWD will ALWAYS launch better than FWD especially when dealing with that much power. I haven't driven this iteration of the Maxima but I did other FWD V6 midsize sedans. Either your car tested is defective or you haven't driven too many premium RWD cars like the C300, 328i, IS350, ATS and Q50. The feeling is VERY different. What you feel is weight; Q50 is heavier than Maxima, but go into corner at ~40mph and Infiniti grips, the Nissan squeals tires. That's difference between FWD mainstream sedan vs. premium RWD sport sedan. If you want to save fuel $, get the Q50 Hybrid; 360hp with Civic-level fuel consumption. The Maxima isn't exactly what I call good on gas either. However the Q50 gets a mid-cycle refresh and the new 3.0 V6 twin turbo with 400hp kills everything except much more expensive BMW M3 and C63 AMG. Even the 'mild' 300hp version now has significantly more torque & thanks to turbocharging now beats the Maxima 3.5 V6 in fuel economy. The difference in price remains small. Why would you go for Maxima unless you are loyal to Nissan? (or maybe get awesome lease deal because nobody buys them?)

Oddly enough however, I would actually now start to rate this HIGHER than things like the Audi A3 and Mercedes CLA. Outrageously the Germans actually charge about the same for their compact FWD entry-luxury vehicles but I find the Maxima to be better built than either car interior-wise & completely wastes them with the standard 3.5 V6. It isn't until you get to the ~$50k+ Audi S3 & Mercedes CLA45 AMG that they truly shine, but at that point it be smarter, again, to pick the Q50S Red Sport. If anyone wants to consider those small German car but dislike their compact size and do not particularly care much about the badge, I would actually recommend looking at this car.

Patrick Wheaton Fair enough. For a city commuter that still has some 'go', I think the Maxima is quite good. It just isn't a "sport sedan" that Nissan keeps desperately claims it is.

Think of them as a way to treat an automatic transmission as if it were a stickshift. Instead of engaging the clutch and shifting gears, you just hit the paddle.

Spectre2300 I see. I can handle that. Clutching and shifting gears all the time I don't think I could get used to. I might, but then again I might not.

Patrick Wheaton Thanks for that. I've only been able to rent the base maxima and the v6 altima isn't available for rent since most rental companies only keep the stock trim

I have a 2011 Nissan Maxima I bought new in 2010. I now have 140,000 miles on the Maxima with zero issues, same original battery still! I recently bought an Acura TLX Advanced package of the Maxima. I'm averaged 34 to 38 miles per gallon on the highway in the TLX. I like the look of the Maxima more but with huge discounts on the Acura TLX I couldn't resist! Plus, I still have my 2011 Maxima to cruise around in. One added benefit with Acura is the longer bumper to bumper warranty and Acura loaner cars if you do have a problem. I'd go with the Maxima or a TLX.

You're being sarcastic right?

No..i love the x tronic cvt because always the right gear if you need it..its fun to drive..i beat 4times in straightline race the 2017 v6 challenger and 2 times Charger v6 theye all 8speed automatic..all rear wheel drive but my 2017 maxima x tronic cvt smoked both of them in straightline..

+MiniCactuar I disagree. Nissan included the feature and I'm sure some of their consumers will on occasion turn off traction control. Regular people buy this car, not track savvy racers.

+WuWei Xu Well that was sort of my point; do regular customers test acceleration before purchasing a vehicle with TC on or off? I bet 99% of typical consumers leave it on.

+MiniCactuar TC masks everything you want to know about how the front wheels and suspension really behave. So, you need to switch off TC to get a good picture. Of course in normal use, it is on.

September 2016 Maxima ranked third in large vehicle sales nationally with 6,569 sales for the month. Avalon was 5th with 3,844 sales. In fact, for the entire year Avalon never beat Maxima in sales for any month. In July 2016 Maxima actually sold the most in the large vehicle category. Avalon was 5th in that month. So I guess Maxima made up that 20% this year, huh? Let's sum up: Avalon drives better than Maxima. Avalon is more tastefully styled inside and out. Yet Avalon can't match Maxima in sales. Seems like the general large car buying public has a different opinion of Maxima vs. Avalon.

Stevie G That's fine, but this would be the first time Maxima has beaten Avalon in sales in a few years. Can it keep that up? The novelty will wear off in the next year or two, and the Avalon will be redesigned in a couple of years, and the world will return to normal.

+pedrof830 piping noise into a car is dumb.

the people who came up with this idea in the first place are the exact same kind of people who came up with Harley-Davidson themed restaurants

+pedrof830 I love CVT, so I would start a campaign Ban Classic Automatics and Manual Shifters from the road. Why? Well, see the vid. Good acceleration and good fuel economy combined is only achieved by CVT. It is called technical progress. But I think there will Always be people who think that cranking up an engine manually or using a manual choke still is "The Real Driving".

+Ronald de Rooij you're a moron

Ronald de Rooij REAL drivers would never accept your premise, let's see how much you're gonna love your CVT when it fails prematurely and whatever you may have saved on gas, will be wasted on replacement, yes because most times they cannot be repaired.

+pedrof830 idk my family all owns nissans. and my mom's 07 sentra is still going strong with 140k miles. only thing wrong with it is the paint started peeling buts that's pretty much it lol

+pedrof830 I will have to wait and see how long the CVT will hold. I have every confidence (because Japanese). And what a real driver is on public roads is really something different than a real driver on a racetrack.

Tomasz Dominikowski Smh. These Manufacturers are getting ridiculous.