Nissan and the Maxima have left me so far behind it's midlly hilarious.
This thing is certainly no contender for "J30 of its time". Maximas before the A34 were all clean and refined--very tastefully executed with sharp, well-realized detail. Now, it's just a huge mess. The details are terrible, the proportions are cartoonish. And it doesn't do anything special. Why buy a Maxima over an Altima? 20 years ago that was a stupid question. Now, it's entirely legitimate and very hard to answer (especially where the Altima now offers the same powertrain with more usable space!).
As for these renderings:
The floating roof a-pillar design looks ridiculous on a "coupelike" profile.
The nose looks like a poorly executed copy of a Mazda.
The beltline is all over the place.
That c-pillar is beyond words.
Those wheels.
The rear view looks like a Lexus.
Why does everything need highly-visible-when-unlit fender signals? Anyone hear of smoked lenses? The mirrors are BLACK. Why are the repeaters white?
Why the Hell are the door handles not body color? It looks like a damn F150 chrome geezer redneck package.
I hate it. Not that I expect anything else these days.