The idea of a four-door sedan that shelters a sports car within its mechanical soul has always been appealing to us, and the Nissan Maxima was the ... turned the original 4DSC into something ...

Then it really found form as the 4DSC (4-Door Sports Car ... Like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, the Nissan Maxima was once a scrappy fighter that "coulda been a contenda." ...