Auto News 5

After a disastrous October, November, and December, January clocked in as the worst month yet for auto sales (the worst since 1982). The annualized selling rate was less than 10 million vehicles. To put that into perspective, the early years of this decade had seen as many as 17 million new cars sold.

First impressions are very important, and where Automobile Magazine and the Infiniti G37 coupe are concerned, those first impressions were full of admiration. After power-sliding around a Nissan test track in Arizona during our first meeting with the G37 and blasting down back roads all the way from Tennessee to Michigan two months later, we declared Infiniti's sexy new sport coupe to be a near-equal to its chief rival, the BMW 335i coupe. That's among the highest praise we can give.