Nissan Cefiro Review!- The JDM RB20 Four Door! 

surprisingly enough alot of people use these as taxis in Trinidad and Tobago lol

Damn that's clean looking!

Thanks for watching guys! This is one interesting car for sure. What do you think of it? Have a great day!

Cefiro's need more attention. They are a big thing here in New Zealand

If anyone wants to google these, this is an A31 Cefiro. The next model (A32) is a Maxima in the US. If you guys watch Haggard Garage, Grillo's "BBW Transporter" is an A32.

Another cool review David. This is so rare. I have seen a couple in Asia on my trips but WOW... this is awesome! The RHD cars are so disconcerting when you see them much less when you drive them but is awesome. Thanks for another great review.

Cant wait to hopefully meet up sometime man! Killer review! I want one of those for a nice Daily!

Nice to see some JDM metal on here. I wonder how long it will take before you review one of the cars we exported. Though so many of them are gunmetal grey BNR32 GT-Rs. I don't know if I would recognize it.

These cars are really popular back home(Trinidad)...I remember my dad was going to buy one from a used car dealer and they wanted about TT$80.000...we also got another version that was badged "Laurel Altima"....those were over TT$200,000 brand new. They came with CA18, RB20 and RB25 engines...guys love to build and race these too...I know of one with a 2jz swap and another with an SR20 both pretty quick cars. Some guys use them as taxis too. Would love to get one of these here. Also like the C33 Laurel Medalist which is related to this car

There's a lot of Cefiro A31 here in the Philppines, they have a RB20 or an V8 engine. ✌🏻️

The Cefiros are Altimas in the middle east. Funny enough, '05 Altimas in the Middle east are Maximas in the US. Now to import parts you'd have to do some research haha.

Absolutely one of my fave cars that you've ever reviewed David!!

Those cars are super popular in New Zealand.

Buys a33 in US: Wow man cool car! JDM as fuvk!!! Buys a33 in Trinidad: Widdiefock boi? You couldna buy something better than that?

That's like a 4 door S13.

Cefiros are awesome, iv had one for nearly 10yrs and I still love it, I ran a couple of 25s with big turbo setups etc which go great but run a 2jz with a big single etc, no looking back

Love Japanese turbo 4 doors! luckily in Australia we have a fair few of these around so finding one isn't super difficult.

I really enjoy the front of the car's look because it reminds me of an S13 Silva which is one of my dream cars.

I absolutely love these 4 door JDM cars. I really would like to get my hands on one in the future.

come to NZ man. you will see these with rb 30et's

I love this car, I currently have one of my own and I'm working on getting it back to the states, but it's not old enough yet since it's a 94 but it's nice to see there are some in the states already!

Mint! Its so strange seeing such a clean cefiro... In New Zealand these are common as hell, every single one has had the shit beaten out of it is rough as guts, just like mine xD I have the rb20e auto version which is sohc NA and slow as fuck, planning a manual conversion and rb30e upgrade sometime soon. So cool to see you review a ceffy! Love it man RFB

I love the styling of the car it has a understated yet tough look to it

3:58 Final Konnexion is still around and making parts in JDM land. They are still pretty big in japan, but most of their business is for Kei cars. Glad to see an under appreciated platform getting some love.

Love the Cefiro! Didn't know they're finally avaiable in the states.

Mint review man . I'm in new Zealand and have owned many cefiros a little over 27 to be exact all a31 and even 1 factory turbo 4wd running the rb20det with gtr gearbox. had many factory turbo ones very popular car in nz. drifted the shit out of them all . love the white one you have reviewed especially with the factory autech kit. nice job

David! Come to Trinidad, we've got thousands of jdm cars and a huge drift culture around cars like this A31

The great thing about this car is that the suspension parts are interchangable with s13 suspension parts, r32 back suspension works as well as the four piston brakes from the r32 all the way up to the r34 works on this car...

Just wanted to say the song on the intro is a flawless track. The car was dope too.

Every review i watch on this channel becomes my dream car .. lol !!!!

I am in love with this car

I've wanted a Cefiro ever since I saw the white 88 model from Japanese Classics that was SR20-swapped and had ugly pink rims. Then when I saw they imported a gunmetal gray 89 Cefiro with 16" Rays wheels and it was like 99% stock, I was like "I must get one." Hopefully that day will come in the next year!

Key to a sweet car. Watch the drivers face smile=good frown=bad.

Someone imported something other than a skyline into the US.... thats new! EDIT: The Cefiro had a LHD version produced in many other countries. Interesting enough, this car had a counterpart, Infiniti M30 or the Nissan Leopard in Japan. The M30 was only sold in the United States.

In australia - at 5:08 we call it a screamer pipe, makes the skylines have their signature howling noise

We got hundreds of these in my country...gotta Love the Cefiro

Ahhh...nothing like waking up to a review!

The second gen Cefiro actually did come to America as the Infiniti I30

that outro with your hand went together suprisingly well

probably one of the best car reviews I've seen in a long time

That's a mint car and a mint review! Great video David. I'm FTTKz by the way :)

the intro music in the beginning though 🔥🔥

Nice car. We have those cars in my country Saudi Arabia with left side steering wheel under the name of Nissan ALTIMA, they are most lighter cars produced in 1988 to 1995, and we love them. I used to have one with 1JZ twin turbo swap engine on it, and REALLY has aggressive power.

Pretty much like a 4 door 240. Sweet!

these are as normal as they get in trinidad, we have them by the hundreds over here,boosted as well as n/a. From rotary's, sr's, rb's to jz's, these are pretty much a canvas for any rwd engine there is, beautiful car.

Cool to see one on here. They common as hell in New Zealand. Its one of the cool things about here. Any car that is jdm only ends up here in bucket loads. 500+ Evo 6.5s here

Going through drive thru's and banks must be a bitch haha love the video!

It's American counterpart was the first gen Maxima, in South America its counterpart was a Laurel Altima. The Cefiro is a like a luxury r32 skyline.

Was not expecting misogi to get some love.

That rb20 sounds nice, would love to have an rb20 four door car :)

I have always wanted to drive a right hand side car maybe one day. That is a beauty beat up a little like you said but who would not want that car. They have kept it up

its funny you say about the novelty of seeing a RHD JDM car because thats basically all we have where I live, a few Euros and rarely you'll see a LHD USDM vehicle its pretty cool for us.

at first it bothered me that the reflectors by the headlights weren't flush with each other but it grew on me throughout the video

I have one of these which originally came with an rb20det and HICAS steering. Swapped it for a rb25det neo. We have many in my country and some even came awd. They all come from the factory with RB engines and share the same suspension parts from other nissans such as the s13 silvia and c33 laurel.

the cefiro was launched in middle east as nissan altima from 1989 to 1994 it was LHD 2.4 (RB24) I6 and carburetted single cam I4

There's probably more Cefiros in Trinidad than Asia. Every corner of Trinidad has one.

I love these type of cars,the cars no one buys in gran turismo because they want something popular

this is literally my dream car

I live in Trinidad and there are so many sr20,rb20,rb25,rb26 turbo drift missles and dailies on the street

Glad you finally did a review on their car.

Brother has one of these, 9/10 depends on the motor to be honest. Although it still doesnt beat my high liking of HR31 GTSXs, dad has one with an RB30/25 Turbo in it, makes so much power, and could easily wipe out this.

RB20 swap? That's all these came with. Or did you mean it's had a turbo motor fitted? These were RB20e,de,det and RB25de only from memory.

who else isnt used to seeing david at this angle? hahah great video none the less!

Nissan took the unusual step of making a left-hand drive version of the Cefiro A31, sold in Latin America, Turkey and other Eurasian countries as a Nissan Laurel ALTIMA - in most export markets this slot was filled by the Nissan Maxima. Unlike the Japanese versions, export models are fitted with a carburetted single cam CA20S inline-four producing 102 hp (76 kW) and RB24 engine which was a single-cam 2.4-liter RB inline-six producing 141 hp (105 kW). Left hand drive Laurel Altimas was the flagship vehicle of Nissan's Turkish lineup for the early 1990s.

Next up: Toyota Chaser JZX100.. you NEEED to review one, 10x better 4 door JDM drift car.

Here were I live in Saudi, we got the car as Altima from 1989 to 1995 its a great car so popular among guys

EVERYTIME I find there is some neat looking jdm rwd manual sedan that we didn't get I wanna cry lmao. I can't really think of any besides (evo, wrx etc) Only thing that come to mind is the Cressida but even then you gotta manual swap it. If there is any I am missing let me know! (don't bag on me to hard lol)

In the middle east those came out in 1989 as the new model of the nissan laurel c32 .. they were badged (laurel altima) kind of an introduction to the altima which came later without the laurel prefix. They came with the ca20s 4. Cyl. Carby engine and the rb24s 6cyl. Carby for the gts

Some cars are just fucking priceless. This was a golden example. Thanks for sharing the experience

I remember the first time I got a ride in one of these, it was just WOW! Thats all I can really say. WOW!

Yes, NisMo Cefiro is the best car for drift and for a long trip. It was a legend car in the 1990's

Ppl work taxi in this and laurel medalist trinidad its been a while since i've seen a cefiro. Nice

YOU SHOULD REVIEW A NISSAN SR20 B13 OR SR20 SE-R 200SX OR B13 SE-R SR20 SOMETHING SICK!!! GOOD JOB WITH THE REVIEWS BRO

The subtlety is what makes that body so goddamn gangster looking...

This was hell of a popular drift car in japan in the 90s

David you need to get a new organized car meet together again!! The cops shutdown thunderbolt before it even started

This is a very common drift car in my country, hoping to get one when I'm older

In middle east like Dubai they have a left hand drive cefiro usually with different name & engine... nissan laurel altima & the engine was rb24s which a single cam inline 6 2.4 liters with carburetor...

it does have a 'counterpart' , maybe not an American model but The cefiro A31 was exported to the middle east and some other parts of the world under the name of Nissan Laurel Altima with a 2.0 4 cylinder and a 2.4 l6 both carburetor engines. here in dubai we have got some serious JZ and RB cefiros pushing 1000+ hp, so yeah..

we have alot of LHD (left hand drive) versions of these in UAE and Bahrain , Nissan released it a an altima. i am sure you can import it from here

One of the Underrated JDMs. These are often use as drift cars here in 🇵🇭

The reason that it had a dvd player on the sunvisor is because it came out as a luxury car back in the 90s.

Where I live, this is the poor man's R32 skyline. Some people even *gags* did body mods *gags* to make it look like one. But, it is a popular drift car here none the less. A close family friend of mine has one that he built for drifting.

These, skylines, silvias and laurels are notorious cop magnets here in NZ lol. Still tho never get sick of seeing them.

Not heard of this car... but definitely have heard of the engine! Yeaaa....RB20!! Looks and sounds clean too! The car makes me think of the Silvia and the 240sx.

Haha I've owned 3 of these they have exactly the same suspension and floor pan as a s13/240sx they have the Rb engine factory exactly the same as skylines only come 4 door! Great cars!

I'm awkwardly in love with this thing. Nice review

so clean. I wanna build a straight line sleeper, stock interior, rims, suspension but fully build up that RB...

What a clean little car love the RB20 and oddball JDM is best JDM

thank u so much for reviewing that car ,waiting so long,i own one and i love them,and am from trinidad and tobago,should try comeing so u can review the ones we got down here,

Any Nissan + TE37s = beauty

the version that was released in the Philippines back then had a twin turbo rb24. crazy haha LHD too

Planning to get one as a first, so underrared

the later model of cifero is the maxima, but they changed it to a front wheel drive setup...a32 Nissan...

Nissan actually made a left hand drive version sold in Latin America as the Laurel Altima but it had a CA20 engine

Its great to see these in america

Great video David. As a japanese who has lived in Tokyo for 18 years, it does slightly irritate me when people who live outside of japan call their car or see a car 'JDM' just because its made by a japanese manufacturer. But in this case, this Cefiro is quintessentially a Japanese Domestic Model. Does this car slot beneath the Skyline saloons in the Nissan model range? I get confused as they're from similar eras, they're both RWD and both have straight 6 engines. Sorry, my knowledge is poor when it comes to Nissans

You used the is300/altezza as an example... Nice!!!

looking forward for another cefiro review vids!

Man im diggin that build! Cool car