2016 Nissan Maxima: Semi-Luxurious and Proud of It - Car and Driver (blog)
FWD and CVT—Two Things We Don’t Expect in a Four-Door Sports Car In an age when you can get a stick shift in a Buick and Acuras offer all-wheel torque vectoring, Nissan’s four-door sports car comes with front-wheel drive and a continuously... Pretty tame stuff, although fuel economy improves, Nissan says, from 19 mpg city and 26 mpg highway to 22/30 mpg. Nissan’s Drive Mode Selector offers a choice between normal and sport settings for steering effort, throttle sensitivity, transmission tuning, and the piped-in engine noise. The suspension is damper-struts up front and multilinks at the rear—an SR performance trim level stiffens the dampers and the front anti-roll bar. Nissan engineers were able to trim up to 82 pounds, despite this eighth-generation Maxima being a bit larger than its predecessor. The car is 2. 2 inches longer (at 192. 8 inches) and 1. 3 inches lower, while the width (73. 2 inches) and 109. 3-inch wheelbase are identical to the outgoing car’s. Source: www.caranddriver.com
