G35. The car with near-BMW panache, the one that accounts for one-third of the brand's U.S. sales. Because it flat goes. Did then, does now.
Along narrow roads snaking tightly up and down hills around here, the G35 could maintain, ah, brisk momentum without straying from its own traffic lane.
Remarkably, that was in the all-wheel-drive version, the G35x. AWD cars, spurred hard, often have trouble keeping their front ends from drifting. Not the G35x. The AWD, in fact, seemed to stabilize the G and help it power around with confidence. Sure, there was that exciting moment involving wet leaves across the road. But a rear-drive model wouldn't have handled it better, perhaps worse. G's AWD system can shift up to 50% of power to either end, as conditions dictate.
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