sroth004
Member
Hello all,
Have been building various configs online and shopping for over a year and finally made the somewhat impulsive purchase of a pre-owned ‘23 4BW, Radiant Red, 6 speed this past weekend. Just under 23k miles, CarGax showing one owner with decent maintenance frequency, though the two best 0-60 times of 4.2 and 4.0 seconds I found in the Data Recorder certainly gives me pause on number of redlines and other smack downs the car may have received…it looks great inside and out so hopefully it was just the dealership team having fun over the past couple of days.
Regardless, the car runs great, awesome fun so far, the reviews I’ve read over the past couple of years don’t do justice to the driving experience. Cardinal, as named by my wife, joins the current flock of others including a variety of 3, 5 and X series BMWs, M-B SLs, old Volvo V70s, a 2011 Accord 6-6 purchased from American Honda with 300 miles on BaT a couple of years ago and an 80k mile ‘94 Explorer to remind me about the old in old-school. The 4BW easily takes over as the best driving, a position previously held by a 40k mile ‘01 M5 sold during the height of Covid just before prices on those exploded. The 4BW will be a “near daily”, the position held by an ‘01 Maxima 20th Anniversary Edition 5 speed with some suspension tweaks owned since new until it “died by chassis rust” a couple of years ago.
I’ve been reading the owner’s manual over the last 24 hours and will keep doing so in parallel with some extended mountain road driving here in Central PA until the feel of the car is as telepathic as the Maxima was (though it had half the power) and the electronics become second nature. Looking forward to the drives and participating here on the forum.
Steve
Have been building various configs online and shopping for over a year and finally made the somewhat impulsive purchase of a pre-owned ‘23 4BW, Radiant Red, 6 speed this past weekend. Just under 23k miles, CarGax showing one owner with decent maintenance frequency, though the two best 0-60 times of 4.2 and 4.0 seconds I found in the Data Recorder certainly gives me pause on number of redlines and other smack downs the car may have received…it looks great inside and out so hopefully it was just the dealership team having fun over the past couple of days.
Regardless, the car runs great, awesome fun so far, the reviews I’ve read over the past couple of years don’t do justice to the driving experience. Cardinal, as named by my wife, joins the current flock of others including a variety of 3, 5 and X series BMWs, M-B SLs, old Volvo V70s, a 2011 Accord 6-6 purchased from American Honda with 300 miles on BaT a couple of years ago and an 80k mile ‘94 Explorer to remind me about the old in old-school. The 4BW easily takes over as the best driving, a position previously held by a 40k mile ‘01 M5 sold during the height of Covid just before prices on those exploded. The 4BW will be a “near daily”, the position held by an ‘01 Maxima 20th Anniversary Edition 5 speed with some suspension tweaks owned since new until it “died by chassis rust” a couple of years ago.
I’ve been reading the owner’s manual over the last 24 hours and will keep doing so in parallel with some extended mountain road driving here in Central PA until the feel of the car is as telepathic as the Maxima was (though it had half the power) and the electronics become second nature. Looking forward to the drives and participating here on the forum.
Steve
. Both of my brothers owned 3.5 6 speed Maximas since new and racked up over 150k on each before rust started to take them away. Enjoyable cars for the money spent back in the day.
