Re-imagined and redesigned for the 2016 model year, Nissan's flagship Maxima sedan is car that resists easy definition. Nissan calls it a "4-Door Sports Car" and goes so far as to emboss "4DSC" on the taillights and headlights. But the thing is, with its front-wheel drive layout and CVT automatic it's never going to fit in as a true sports car, not

The all-new 2016 Nissan Maxima is about as sleek as a four-door sedan can be. Nissan designers have stretched (by 56 millimeters) and lowered (by 33 mm) their flagship model to create a clearly sports-oriented vehicle with an abundance of what dealers call “eyeball”. Impressive from all angles, it's the side profile that stands out with its high wa

Vehicle Type The Maxima seems to strike an ideal balance of handling and comfort that satisfies on long highway drives and in winding backroads alike. Sport sedan History/Description Nissan’s Maxima entered its latest generation after decades of affordable sports sedan popularity, and hit Canadian roads in 2015 as a larger, more

Maximum: the most. Of course, the question here becomes, “The most of what, exactly?” When the Maxima nameplate debuted in the 1980s, it stood for more space and luxury than your average Nissan. When it changed from boxy to svelte in the late 1990s, a Maxima was sort of a poor man’s BMW 5 Series, with surprisingly vigorous pace to match the interio

Featuring a 300 horsepower V6 using technology and “lessons” from Nissan's supercar GT-R , the Nissan Maxima moves solidly into the “class-above” sport sedan category for 2016. Asserting itself as Nissan's flagship vehicle with styling based on the Nissan Sport Sedan Concept, it features what Nissan describes as, “V-Motion front end, signature b

A familiar conundrum with flagship sedans from mainstream manufacturers is that with a few options, their price typically rises to match that of an entry-level luxury alternative. The Nissan Maxima versus the Infiniti Q50 is an obvious example. Why not pay a little more for the luxury brand? The all-new 2016 Nissan Maxima gets around this by o

Article by Jacob Black, photos by Jacob Black and courtesy of Nissan Canada Crashing a car used to be easy. You could drive into the back of someone, reverse out of your bay into someone, cut someone off changing lanes – the possibilities were endless! Gradually, carmakers have built in technologies that take away our excuses for crashing into

Review and Photos by Jeff Wilson If I’m honest, I hate it when he’s right.  autoTRADER.ca’s outspoken Aussie editor, Jacob Black denied my request to pit the 2016 Nissan Maxima against one of its obvious Japanese-brand competitors, instead insisting Nissan’s flagship tangle with your grandpa’s Chevy; the fleet darling Impala . The rear

Nissan took the covers off two refreshed flagship models in Los Angeles. On the sedan side, an updated 2019 Nissan Maxima features some light appearance updates along with some far more significant additional safety features. Key among these is the availability of Nissan’s Safety Shield 360 suite of safety technologies, which is offered on Maxim

Here's our quiz question for today: How did the truck driver in this video not notice he had a mid-sized sedan wedged under his back bumper? To our eyes, the only way this could have happened was that the Maxima's driver cut too close to the truck when pulling out to pass, struck the trailer's wheel with the front corner of the car and got reele

Nissan is quietly rolling out Apple CarPlay and Android Auto across its vehicle lineup for 2018. The first hint of the big infotainment change was hidden in yesterday's announcement that the 2018 Rogue would add Nissan's ProPilot Assist autonomous assist technology. Nissan said that all trims of the Rogue would get Nissan's NissanConnectSM infot

Nissan Canada has announced it is expanding the availability of its Safety Shield 360 suite of advanced driver assists by making it standard on 11 models for the 2021 model year. According to Nissan Canada, the suite’s six features – forward collision detection with automatic braking and pedestrian detection, lane departure warning, automatic h

Industry publication Ward's, who you may be more familiar from their annual 10 Best Engines list, has released their 2016 10 Best Interiors. To be eligible for the list, the interior must be new or significantly re-designed, and this year they looked at 47 new interiors. Luxury brands are better represented in the results than in years past, but as

Nissan has just announced that they will be adding automatic emergency braking as standard on eight of their most popular models. That puts the advanced safety system on nearly 90,000 Nissan vehicles next year. The automatic braking system will be standard on the 2018 Nissan Rogue , Murano , Pathfinder , and Armada SUVs. The larger vehicles

The Toyota Avalon doesn’t get much attention, which is a shame considering its solid styling, high-end interior, and smart packaging. Fortunately, the automaker hasn’t forgotten about its stately sedan, with the 2021 Toyota Avalon adding available all-wheel drive like its smaller sibling, the Camry . That extra traction should broaden the b