2007 Nissan Altima, 2007 Infiniti G35: Something's Backward

This is a closeup of the buttons on the left side of our 2007 Nissan Altima's steering wheel. Note the toggle switch for "seek." It operates exactly how I'd expect it to operate -- push up to advance to the next CD track, push down to go back.

Below is a photo of our 2007 Infiniti G35's cockpit. It's a little hard to make out in this photo, but if you follow my lovingly hand-drawn red arrow, you'll see that it, too, has a toggle switch for seek functions... It feels just the same as the Altima's switch, but it operates in exactly the opposite manner: Push down to advance, push up to go back. I always get it wrong when I get back into the G after not driving it for several weeks.

This oddity is not unique to our G35. A G37 test car I drove was just the same. This seems to have been a conscious choice made by a designer. Or does Infiniti use a different supplier than Nissan? Or is this some silly problem I could easily correct by more diligent RTMing?

Erin Riches, Senior Content Editor

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• Posted by: Erin Riches September 25, 2007, 2:23 PM
• Categories: 2007 Infiniti G35 Sport, 2007 Nissan Altima SE