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Hmmm, new Nissan QX? Nissan rumored to be replacing the current Armada-based vehicle with a Japan-sourced vehicle, and this seems like just the ticket to keep up with the Lexus LX-leasing Jonses.
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these photos were taken during an in-house product viewing and leaked a while back.
Nissan threatened media of using them then as they are in breach of Confidentiality agreements with whoever took them and spread them.
in anycase, in the middle east this will be the up and coming Patrol, does the Infiniti badge go on a re badged patrol? it would on an Armada, not on this i think….
From this angle it looks like the love child of a RAV4 and a Frontier pickup.
At least it loses the sperm-whale face of the current QX. And the quality control should improve too, especially if they derive from Japan rather than Canton, Mississippi.
Looks very Landcruiser/LX-ish to me. It could work, but probably not at the $80,000 that the LX commands. Then again, if gas goes back up to $4+ per gallon, I can’t see SUVs having much popularity at all. Seems risky given the time it’ll take to get that thing here.
There’s always going to be some type of market for these, albeit a smaller one that previously, but one nonetheless. There’s still a lot of wealthy people here in the US, or at least, people who are willing to pay for a vehicle like this and the gas, at any rate.
It looks more Mitsubishi than Lexus.
The LX and Land Rover get my vote for the most unreasonably overpriced mass-market vehicle…
I saw a Land Cruiser the other day at a Toyota store…$75 grand for what amounts to a Japanese Tahoe. I saw a Lexus LX that went for $85 large.
Insane. Any wonder why they don’t sell?
Again the answer to a question that no one is asking.
This looks to me like a Nissan Patrol replacement. The Patrol/Land Cruiser/Land Rover vehicles are big sellers in Australia and Africa where real off road capabilities trump the niceties of the Infiniti/RX crossover pretend vehicles. If so, it might be worth the money and may not be destined for the U.S.
This looks good for its intended market space and competition.
As BlueBrat said, there will always be a market for SUVs, even ladder-frame SUVs, just not nearly as big as before. What does remain as big as before is the huge per-unit profit margin.
I’d keep these things in my stable is I were a mainstream automaker. In this vein, I also think that Kia didn’t go wrong with the introduction of their Borrego, they just didn’t do as well as they could have had it come out 18 months eariler.
For the record: I think ladder-frame SUVs are the stupidest form of daily transportation and the stupidest expenditure on a vehicle that is not spending most of its life away from asphalt or pulling really heavy things that you need to pull on a regular basis.
Fender vents are sooooo over
I don’t think also rans work well in the 80k bracket. The LC/LX is an iconic vehicle, and so is the Range Rover. Playing in that game without any cred isn’t going to work without superior quality and value. They will have to make it better, and much cheaper (at first) or they should quit before starting.
Hi guys, this pic has been around for a while, and from what I’ve heard work on the new Patrol/Safari has been postponed for the forseeable immediate future. I’d love to see a replacement though, because the current Y61 is over 10 years old, and it still shares most of it’s engineering with the old Y60, which was released >20 years ago. But with the kind of volumes they’d be likely to see it’ll have to wat a little longer……
Replacing the current Patrol (a modern classic) with a Patherfinder based Mitsubishi Endeavor clone? (Backs away holding nose).
Considering Nissan killed it’s Titan replacement in lieu of a Dodge Ram rebadge (which I guess isn’t happening anymore, so is Nissan even going to have a full size pickup?) and that Nissan dealers are currently offering over $10,000 off of new ’09 Armadas, I can’t see the sense in them developing a new vehicle for the segment. The domestics own the full size SUV and pickup truck market, shrinking as it is. Toyota has made some inroads with the new Tundra and Sequoia, but even those aren’t holding their own in the current climate.
Not to say that the imports can’t make good SUVs, the Landcruiser is an icon for good reason, an Isuzu (true Isuzu, not GM rebadge) will run forever if you keep up with basic maintenance, and my ’02 Mitsubishi Montero (not Montero Sport, those were crap) was one of the best vehicles I have ever owned.