2004 INFINITI G35 User Comment / Complaint

I experienced 'sudden' or 'unintended' acceleration with my 2004 infiniti g35 coupe twice in the last 3 months. i specifically was not pressing on the accelerator in either instance though my wife can testify in the first instance that i was not. i was alone during the second occurrence so there are no witnesses. the first time my wife and i were sitting 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 it wouldn't move and shifted into neutral (it's an automatic). the revs picked up and the tach was moving rapidly higher. i shut off the ignition. when the light changed, i turned the ignition on and 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. this happened in february or early march. on april 3, 2007 i was backing into a parking space. the car was in reverse and my foot was slightly on the brake moving from the accelerator to the brake and back again. again, the engine began to race and i hit the car behind me -- not very hard because it was very close. my foot wasn't on the accelerator when this happened. the next day i took the car to infiniti. three weeks later they can find nothing wrong. because this has happened twice in three months, the car's unsafe to drive and 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 time, we're out $36,000. some people will continue to drive their cars with this problem and hope, as it's intermittent, that it doesn't kill someone or cause a terrible accident, i don't feel i can take that chance so, thus, i gave the car back.