So I took my car in for service today, and they let me take an M35 as requested. 'Great car, but I still like my coupe better. IMO, it's still Infiniti's most fun car to drive.
The M is FAST, but you can't tell you're going fast unless you look at the spedometer. I don't like that. In the coupe, it almost seems like you can feel the car's power a lot more than any of the automatic sedans(G and M). There's also a pretty significant delay from when you punch it to when the car responds. You can literally count to 3 before the transmission figures out what you're doing and you take off. I absolutely refuse to use the "manumatic" crap shifting shit in ANY car that has it, so I didn't test the M's response to that.
The seats in the car aren't made for the speed that the car can get up to. The MT coupe with the sport package comes with the sport seats, and I swear by those things. The more flattened out seats blow....especially with the body roll of the car. It's not fun to slide all over the driver's seat while going 110(I pushed it to 120 before running out of freeway). 'Not good at all. I guess most people that drive Ms aren't driving them like one would an MT coupe, but who gives a shit? Coupe driving is fun.
The controls on the steering wheel for the CD player/radio are BACKWARDS. I noticed this in the 08 G Sedan I got last time. Why in the hell would one press down to go ahead a track??? It's quite annoying. For those of you with 08's, do you think the same?
I guess that's my two pennies. The M is a cool car, but if one is going to pay that much for a car, they might as well just go get a 545 and hang out with the stuck up Bimmer crowd.
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The controls on the steering wheel for the CD player/radio are BACKWARDS. I noticed this in the 08 G Sedan I got last time. Why in the hell would one press down to go ahead a track??? It's quite annoying. For those of you with 08's, do you think the same?
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I think it makes sense if you picture the tracks are written as a list and you
are then incrementing down through the list.
I think it makes sense if you picture the tracks are written as a list and you
are then incrementing down through the list.
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yeah...that's the only rationale i could come up with for why that's like that. the display on the car i was driving didn't have them listed, so if one had never driven an infiniti wiht the new nav/radio, the'd probably wonder the same thing i did. the 08 g sedan i drove last time was the same way, so it didn't surprise me. it's just the opposite of the car i've driven for the last two and a half years.
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