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For those of you that have been scratching your heads and wondering if that VQ powered blur that just sped by you was a previous generation G35 or a current G37, maybe this will help.
User BostonMerlin on Freshalloy posts side by side pics of a pair of silver Gs. As you can tell from the pictures, the design team at Infiniti has been putting in half days. Aside from subtle alterations to the hoodline, headlights, and taillights, the two generations are somewhat difficult to distinguish.
Rookie on G35driver shows us that 'Big Pimpin' isn't all deep dish 24s and half a dozen DVD players. Start with a run of the mill FX35, put spacers on the wheels, stretch the fenders out, and add boost.
We like how they used the license plate to cover up the fact that the front mount is actually two intercoolers welded together (in subsequent photos).
Callmedoc on the Car Lounge forums posted this interesting tidbit from a Japanese publication. Apparently they took a sports sedan from three major marques - the Acura TL-S, G35 sedan (the new one), and an IS350, shipped them overseas to WSIR (Willow Springs International Raceway). and put them in the capable hands of the Drift King himself - Keiichi Tsuchiya.
If your first assumption involved the IS or the G35 duking it out for first place, you'd be wrong. Dead wrong. The TL, being FWD and having the lowest output of the three, came in nearly *2* seconds faster - quite a margin.
For fun, they also threw in an RDX, which lagged a good five-six seconds behind the pack - which isn't surprising from a cute-ute with a turbo 4.