2004 INFINITI G35 User Comment / Complaint

I experienced 'sudden' or 'unintended' acceleration with my 2004 infiniti g35 coupe twice in the last 3 months. the first time, in february or early march, my wife and i were at an intersection waiting for the left turn light. the car was stopped. all of a sudden the car's motor began to rev up. i pressed firmly on the brake so the car wouldn't move and shifted into neutral (it's an automatic). the car revved up alarmingly. i shut off the ignition. when the light changed, i restarted the car; all was normal. we continued on home. the only reason i didn't run into the person in front of me was because my foot was firmly on the brake. on april 3, 2007, i was backing into a parking space. the care was drifting at idle in reverse and my foot was on the brake. again, the engine began to race and i hit the car behind me -- not very hard because it was very close. my foot was definitely not on the accelerator when this happened. the next day i took the car to infiniti. three weeks later they say they can find nothing wrong. because this has happened twice in 3 months, i consider the car unsafe to drive; infiniti agrees. i've left the car with the dealer and am waiting to see if they'll buy it back from me or, at least, give me something on a trade-in for a 2008 g37 coupe. at this point, we're out $36,000. some people may continue to drive their cars in spite of this problem and hope, because it's intermittent, that the car won't kill someone or cause a terrible accident. i don't feel i can take that chance so i gave up on the car.