Thanks to the folks here for answering some of the questions I've posted over the last month or so - this board has been a great resource for me. Last night I took delivery of my new M35X. Diamond Graphite/Graphite int., Journey, Tech, XM and 18" chromes. What a fantastic car - my wife and the kids all were in awe. Had the windows tinted at the dealer, now all I really want to do is lower it slightly and figure out a way to get my iPod Nano integrated.

I bought the car from Infiniti of Chantilly here in No. Virginia. Paul Ballard, the salesman, was fantastic. He was patient throughout the month and a half of me visiting the dealership and trying out several different models plus he gave me an excellent price.
Modified by dralison at 6:05 AM 6/16/2006

Congrats, you'll love the car. I get to drive them everyday.

Congratulations! Please write up your driving experiences with it when you get a chance!

Z

szhosain wrote:Congratulations! Please write up your driving experiences with it when you get a chance!

Z

Be careful what you ask for Z

Just drove the car 180 miles in the first day taking the family on a trip. Playing with the wonderful toys in the car kept me entertained so the trip went by quickly. Since I'm trying to break it in properly I had to vary my speed and tried to keep it under 65 most of the time - that was a serious challenge.

Maybe I'm looking at this car through rose colored glasses but I couldn't find anything that didn't perform to my expectations or exceed them. I had been concerned about the headlight performance but that was unfounded - they were fine. I was also concerned with mileage but so far on my initial tank I am averaging 21.2 MPG - likely because I am driving so conservatively and quite a bit of that drive (3/4) was highway.

Before I purchased the car I was prepared to disable the LDW but found that it was very useful as the day wore on and I would occasionally drift a bit in the lane - worked very well. The intelligent cruise control was excellent - a big part of our drive to the beach was on roads that had some traffic and speeds would go from 45 to 60 - the M35 simply paced the car in front of me.

Sound quality is also excellent - stunning even. All I have is the demo 5.1 DVD and enjoyed playing that to see what the system is capable of. Sound quality of the XM was acceptable coming from the system I had in my BMW - though I will tend to listen to XM more for sports talk and comedy so it's not as important to me.

Handling was also very good. Coming from a BMW 540 Sport I expected to find the car a little softer, which it is. The steering feels very tight and responsive and it has a much better turning radius than the BMW did.

Hands free voice system is very, very cool. It's also the only way to navigate through the XM channels - spinning the control knob to get from channel 7 to channel 51 just takes too long.

I used the Bluetooth with my Sprint based PC6700 phone and it worked well - though it transfered names from my phone book into the car memory it didn't do that properly - I have to work on that.

Bottom line: I couldn't be happier with this car.

Congrats!

Spending more time in the garage than usual??

A year later, and I still find myself going out to look at mine (well, whens it clean at least)

DG is a great color. Almost wish I went that route...but the black seduced me at the dealership.

Any thoughts of an aero kit? In my opinion, thats what really makes the car. I tried to go without it at first....just couldnt do it...

TXSJaybird wrote:...Any thoughts of an aero kit? In my opinion, thats what really makes the car. I tried to go without it at first....just couldnt do it...

Yes, I thought about the aero but decided not to since it's an M35X. I am going to try to find a spring kit for it and lower it by an inch or so, then see from there if the aero will be needed to finish the look.

dralisonUse the "skip" or button (Radio seak forward or backward), when on SAT radio, and it will move it approx 10 stations at a time also;tk

Great tip tkeskic - thanks!