Good deal for anyone looking...

[q45touring]

Found this while browsing Craigslist...
http://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/3679803588.html
Seems like the individual is distress selling it. Worth looking into I guess. I may go by tomorrow to see how it looks and report back. There are actually a couple good Q's in the Tampa Bay Area that I've seen on Craigslist. Maybe they are starting to come out for sale, slowly but surely.

[Infinitiguy19]

Meh FGY33's and F50's are a dime a dozen. A G50 is a rare find now adays whether in a junk yard or in a drivable condition.

[ph34r]

I have seen a few G50's in the JY here in Tampa. Actually, there are 3 in the Clearwater LKQ right now.

[Wiggler]

Meh FGY33's and F50's are a dime a dozen. A G50 is a rare find now adays whether in a junk yard or in a drivable condition.

Y33's were only made for 5 years and the G50 for 7? ... how you figure they're a dime a dozen?? Just because they're newer?? I've seen tons more G50's here in San Antone...

[BadQ45t]

Someone post the link to the number of Q's sold already

[BCC93QT]

how-many-94-q54s-were-made-t505083.html




You could probably take the 1990-1992 units sold and wipe atleast 3/4 of them off due to chain guides.
I agree with Paul somewhat. In the snowbelt area, there are very few G50 models. I see a FGY33 once every other week. I have not seen a G50 Q in almost a year.

[qship96]

Sad to see the Q sales numbers compared to the Lexus LS. Always wonder how much of the failure was advertising driven VS product difference.

[BadQ45t]

I think the ads really had nothing to do with it in the end, but it was for sure a bad start. I think it was more the LS400 immediately attracted the 45-75 year old men than generally can and do buy these types of expensive cars new into buying them as they rode more like MB than a BMW and the styling was more Luxo oriented. My dad was a 60 year old classic MB S class buyer who had 2 S class benz's back in the day when he could afford them. When the LS came out he loved it and barely noticed the Q which I was drooling over. In 1993 he got a 1990 LS400 and thought it was "the greatest car on earth". I drove it one day out in Palm Desert where he lived and was completely underwhelmed. The car ended up with major issues and he dumped it 2 years later in favor of a 1992 Q45 that he bought from an old couple who hardly drove it. One week into the Q and he was "the LS was a turd compared to this, this is like a rocket and much more solid". So it took a crazy good deal to get him into that Q but once he drove it he loved it. When he bought that LS he hadn't given the Q a second thought or look.

You can see the 1994 woke up the Q a bit, now with the grill on the front and a more reliable and luxo feel. I always felt the 94' was the most sorted out in terms of reliability and still having the Q grunt of that first gen. When I bought my 97' in 2000 I drove it back to back with a 96' and it was obviously very different than my dad's 92' in terms of power...the power was about equal between models but by than the first Gen body style had gone stale. The 97' sold okay, but as you can see the end of the 2nd gen was horrible. I could have picked up a 2001 Anni edition brand new for 45k (sticker was 55k) as they couldn't give them away.

The 2002 as I remember my buddy telling me (he was the GM of Infiniti of Ventura at the time) is "the no excuses car people were waiting for from Infiniti", and while as you can see it sold a bit better than the 2001 by 2003 the model was cooked. That car was a day late and dollar short and the styling was just too bland.

with about 70k first gen Q's out there and less than half that number of 2nd Gen I think we're still (at least in CA) seeing a lot of (albeit mostly trashed) 1st Gens. What a pathetic showing this was for Nissan. For perspective in 1984 when I bought a Z car they sold 75k of them that ONE YEAR!

[maxnix]

Sad to see the Q sales numbers compared to the Lexus LS. Always wonder how much of the failure was advertising driven VS product difference.

I'd say a lot. Wood was important in a luxury car interior and the early G50 had none. Then the timing chain guide failures soured many, I am sure.

No doubt it was the best V8 sedan until 1996 or 1997. Even the lower market FGY33 is semi-bullet proof and not much slower.