Whenever somebody asked me what I did for a living during the summer of 1994, I would tell them “I sell Infinitis”. That was a lie. My actual job was to lease the Infiniti J30 at $399/month to second-tier suburban wanna-bes and a wide variety of credit criminals. That was what paid for our owner’s impressive coke habit, and that was what earned me as much as three thousand dollars per month.
In the interest of strict factual accuracy, I should point out that we did, nominally, sell two other models. The 1994 Q45 was an overpriced brick with a Park Avenue-style facelift. Over the course of six months, we sold two of them, one to a former salesman who was simply in the habit of driving that particular car as a demo, and one to somebody who owned a 1990 example and was only vaguely horrified at the “updates” performed that year. Looking back, I think he used to snort coke with the dealership’s owner. It would explain a lot.


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LeeK - Excellent point.
fozone - I just wonder how many people buy these who actually need them? (ie, they use the 7-seat capacity rarely if ever.) It seems irrational with this sort of...
wmba - What I get from this review is roughly what I got from C/D about it. To paraphrase: There are many CUVs out there. This is one of them.
azmtbkr81 - Me too. Thankfully my GF likes hatchbacks and thinks CUVs are obnoxious. She’s a keeper.
WRohrl - @HDC – When exactly did Audi “retreat from the US market”? You can’t answer that as it did not occur. Many of your posts seem to have at least...
LeeK - A couple of corrections. IBM saw the market as 50,000 annually, not 5,000. IBM didn’t give the operating system to Microsoft because of the...
Onus - I agree. I much prefer sedans for that reason. The only plus hatches get are better head room for rear passengers with todays horrible styling...
rudiger - Toilet seat was gone by 1962. What’s more, that may be a Canadian ‘Chrysler’ Valiant. The American Plymouth...
jhefner - Believe it or not, a car does not have to be an uber luxury or sports car to develop a fondness and sense of attachment to it. Golden2husky is right. I remember when the first...
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