Maxima-um WIN!

[MinisterofDOOM]

Just opened my mailbox to find this:








DAT DASH!


Best contest prize EVER. EVER.
EVER.

I have a s***-eating grin on my face right now.

[sbird1]

^ Lol.

That dash is nuts.

[hitbychance]

[Dattebayo]

...and here I thought you won a car...

[Dittoz7]

Holy fckin 80's batman!

[Kompresshun]

Sweet brochure, I can't decide if I like the car though. Although i'd be all over that wagon for sure regardless.

[Rex]

I wanted one of those wagons (used) when I was looking for my first "grown-up" car in the early 90's. Still wish they offered the Max in a wagon in later generations.

[LEMHEAD16]

I had an 83 Maxima when I was 17. I loved it. It was poop brown, RWD, and talked to you if you left the lights on or a door was open. If I knew what I was doing back then I would have kept it because it was PRISTINE. I still dream of finding a clean one and dropping an RB in it. That was the first car I ever did a brodie in and learned how to control the a** end of a car with the throttle. All the badges said Datsun/Nissan

[MinisterofDOOM]

The "Bitching Betty" voice in those Maximas was actually a tiny ANALOG PHONOGRAPH RECORD. Not digital, not even magnetic tape. A record. In the dash. Brilliant.

[TOMMY VERCETTI]

I wanted one of those wagons (used) when I was looking for my first "grown-up" car in the early 90's. Still wish they offered the Max in a wagon in later generations.

^^^+1 I would love to have one right now..

[Jesda]

I always thought button tufted leather was kind of cool in a luxury car.

[Dattebayo]

The "Bitching Betty" voice in those Maximas was actually a tiny ANALOG PHONOGRAPH RECORD. Not digital, not even magnetic tape. A record. In the dash. Brilliant.

OMG

I wonder if the needle ever goes bad...

[skydragoness]

Oh boy

My uncle had a uber rare Maxima wagon, the generation after that one; it too had the annoying talking voice. Sweet car though.

[Jesda]

I'll take bitchin' betty over the soft, boring "BONG BONG BONG" sound of GM cars. You can hear Clarkson complaining about it in his CTS-V review. I need to find a way to disable it. With my Mustang, I was able to rip out the electronic chime. I think if I removed anything in the Seville I'd throw 100 codes.

I really liked the dingy bell that my Sentra had. I think it was a real electric bell.

[Ozzie]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8SCGhc4AC0&showinfo=0[/youtube]
Cool!!!

also, I found this slightly amusing
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR0Ofu0M ... showinfo=0[/youtube]

[MinisterofDOOM]

I'll take bitchin' betty over the soft, boring "BONG BONG BONG" sound of GM cars. You can hear Clarkson complaining about it in his CTS-V review. I need to find a way to disable it. With my Mustang, I was able to rip out the electronic chime. I think if I removed anything in the Seville I'd throw 100 codes.

I really liked the dingy bell that my Sentra had. I think it was a real electric bell.

UGH...I despise the loud, oddly-pitched beep the LS uses to alert the driver of various things. It's REALLY REALLY loud for one thing, but it also has a pitch that makes me think of MU/TH/UR, not modern piece of technology or a luxury car. It sounds whenever you use any function associated with the dot-matrix info display (almost identical to the one in G50 Qs, even in the same spot as later G50s). The beep genuinely makes me angry. It'll long-beep to tell me my washer fluid is low. I try to mash the Reset button to shut it up, but the car's an irritable bastard and makes you wait for the warning beep to stop before it'll accept button inputs. So I generally end up furiously wailing on Reset and screaming SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP I TURNED THE COOLING UNITS BACK ON! until the car finds its brain and listens.

[skydragoness]

Can it beat the NA Miata's "waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" ?
(Imagine the "waaah" from the Tetris guy when you lose but constant)
Even if you turn the key to 'acc' it still whines until you shut the door--but won't do it if you leave you parking lamps on. I finally unplugged it a week ago.