The 2019 Nissan Maxima gains a much-needed front and rear-end refresh, pushing the design more in line with its 4DSC heritage.
When Nissan unveiled its fresh-faced and thoroughly redesigned Altima for 2019, it looked a whole lot sportier. The Altima also started to encroach on the sporty looks of its more athletic brother, the 4DSC Nissan Maxima. Nissan is putting a halt to that ASAP as per their official press release that hit the internet earlier today (Oct. 22, 2018) Nissan is putting out a much more emotionally charged looking front end that should put a clear design language difference between the two full-sized sedan offerings from Nissan. Here’s the only image they provided us below.
The #Nissan Maxima, which makes its world debut at the @laautoshow, receives a fresh new look for the 2019 model year #LAAutoShow https://t.co/giLnqfKEt8 pic.twitter.com/mW4VHXJama
— Nissan (@NissanUSA) October 22, 2018
Although Altimas outsell Maximas by roughly five to one, according to GoodCarBadCar Nissan still sells a couple thousand Maximas a month, although that number is drastically decreasing with the rising popularity of crossovers and all. Still, Nissan has plans for this 4DSC and has subsequently put its best designers out their, slapping on a fresh face and presumably, an as equally as fresh rear treatment.
While some car outlets think that Nissan won’t throw some power at the Maxima, I have a feeling Nissan has something up their sleeves for 2019. Perhaps that means a more sporty Dual-clutch transmission as optional and an ECU tune to push the VQ35DE under the hood well past 310 HP and 275 lb-ft and then some.
As per their press release,
The new Maxima will also offer available Nissan Safety Shield 360 technology, a suite of six advanced safety and driver-assist technologies. The 2019 Maxima, the flagship of Nissan’s sedan lineup, goes on sale in December.
And although no one’s going to say it, expect for these “beauts” to show up at a rental car lot near you when your next vacation rolls around.
