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Haha. Good one Infiniti. You almost had me going there for a minute.
This is an April Fool’s joke, right? Hold on, let me check Topeka… nope, not a joke.
This is definitely one design that looks better covered up. And it looked pretty ugly covered up.
Jonah, your whale has arrived.
Copying the Lexus LX much?
I’m thinking more Ford Flex. Those portholes, yikes!
I think Michael meant Toyota Land Cruiser: Lexus LX as the Nissan Patrol: Infiniti QX
Wow, that thing actually doesn’t look too bad for its class! Much better than Sequoias, Land Cruisers, 4Runners and their Lexus derivatives, as well as domestic BOF monsters.
I can’t imagine much this thing would do that the Lambdas won’t do better for less. But still, purely as sculpture, I don’t find it that offensive.
Nice Pep Boys chrome fender vents…stay classy Infinity. God I’m glad these road Hippos are finally getting the scorn they so richly deserve.
What a butt-face
Suddenly, it’s 1958 all over again. The only question: Does this look more like an Edsel or an Oldsmobile?
Oldsmobile, Buick, and Cadillac: Harley Earl is not dead, he’s clearly haunting the Infiniti studios.
Good Lord that thing is fugly. I can’t see any rational person wanting to buy one of these overwrought abominations.
Rational people don’t buy SUVs… so Infiniti may have its fingers on the pulse of the QX market better than we give them credit for.
The best feature will be the cash on the hood.
Exactly how big is that thing anyway?
Imagine my surprise when I found it was still under a cover when I first arrived at the show yesterday! Apparently there was an Infiniti owners’ event (I was not invited for the continental breakfast buffet) and they must have been waiting for a “big reveal.”
The brushstroke metaphor (you can kind of see it in a few of the profile pictures) seems awkward here – about as awkward as the car – and no longer gracefully fits. Sort of like this car, not gracefully fitting in an average garage.
It’s menacing, though, in that almost-Ford-350-ish kind of way, and while I didn’t really get up close and personal with it, I felt as if I’d already seen enough of the “sea of beige” interior. Some of the Infiniti owners did, however, and were soon ambling about the rest of the NYIAS floor. I think it’s called “wanderlust.”
Gasp. Their design engineers most certainly have cum laude master’s degrees in “ugly”.
I’m going to reserve judgement until I know what’s under the hood. Sometimes an obscene amount of ugly with an obscene amount of power = beautiful.
Canyonero mit chrome. Whatever happened to product planners ?
That is astonishingly ugly.
Holy Cow! What are they thinking? Does anyone review this crap before they sign off on it?
A whole table of us got thrown out of a strip joint once. Our crime? We offered a dancer a twenty if she would just keep her clothes on. Tho only thing that could improve her looks,would be to pose with that car.
Ugliest.Car.Ever.
And I don’t just say that to anybody.
Better keeps your clothes fatso…who buys these ugly, wasteful, stupid thing???? Seriously, why waste such money on a fat pig like that? I’m getting really bored whith the -I need a truck attitude- seriously, I get the markup part for the dealer but I don’t get why people feel the need to buy these things…I do not need some trucklet to feel manly, I could feel good in an effin Smart(figure of speech…) Usa and Canada wake up and stop paying more for looks, in a couple of years you will all be like -what where we thinking?
Maybe this will the blow that will finally kill the SUV obsession in the US. Like some others commented, it looked ugly even with the sheet over it and even worse without it. Deeply tinted glass or disguises should be standard equipment with this one.
And the pro-Japan crowd dares call my Aztek ugly!
News Flash: so does the anti Japan crowd…………..
disgusting..really.
Moo.
What a shiny, new dinosaur. Beautiful pics though, Tommy!
“Rational people don’t buy SUVs…”
Let me know what else I can buy that will hold 2 adults, 3 kids in car seats, and 2 dogs. I also need it to move 4 tons of SeaRay boat down the road during the summer and a 4 place enclosed snowmobile trailer in the winter.
Excuse me while I go out in the garage and kiss my LTZ Tahoe ……LOL
The same people who’d tell you that you don’t ‘need’ an SUV are usually the same that would tell you that you don’t really ‘need’ three kids, two pets, and a boat. They’ll usually justify their belief in what’s ‘best for you’ with a gigantic amount of snarky jargon (and usually a link or two to websites they agree with) that amounts to, “I’m secretly jealous of what you have,” and, “If everyone in the rest of the world can’t have what you have then neither should you,”. Contrary to their massive use of websites to vent their self righteous rage they’re actually a small percentage of the population. Due to their disproportionately small numbers compared to the rest of Americans (which they not-so-secretly despise) they think they’re somehow ‘elite’ and justified to tell you what’s best for ‘the common good’. Just ignore them, and try to keep from electing them to any position of power and they’ll leave you alone.
@ reclusive
a little newsflash for ya sweetie, if the percentage of the population who found elephantine SUVs ridiculous were as small as you’d like to believe, they’d still be posting record sales numbers…last time I checked, um, not so much…
reality says that for the majority of the population, a smaller, more practical vehicle is a better choice…and for some, yeah, a large gas swiling SUV makes sense…free country, free choices, etc.
Mostly, I prefer to leave your tea-bagging ‘wisdom’ alone, but dude, please check your meds, I think you missed a dose.
Amen Carlson and Reclusive! Does Rob feel better about himself being this smug? I really don’t get it. There was a time not too long ago when people in America were free to pursue happiness, and if an SUV does that, more power to them.
But now, you have this smug little set that thinks they are oh so clever when they repeat the talking points they have digested. You can spot them every time. And it kills me that these unoriginal people think they are so smart when they parrot their smugness. You can always spot them – they talk about how people are “idiots” and “sheeple”
Or tea-baggers…
@jplane — You crack me up!
I’m all for freedom of choice… but I also reserve the right to opine on a message board that some people make what I perceive to be foolish choices, in the name of fashion or feelings of inadequacy.
Incidentally, that’s exactly why I belong to a certain political party — probably the same one you do. Truth is, I’d be a Libertarian if I thought people — left to their own devices — would make better choices than they do.
I spent much of my youth riding in a ’78 Grand Wagoneer (mom’s ride) and a ’86 Suburban (dad’s ride). Gas was cheap, there was plenty of room for us kids and our friends, it was easy to carry bikes and sports equipment, and we’d have been safer if some idiot plowed into us. Doesn’t seem irrational to me. However, is it irrational that I’d rather drive a ’78 Grand Wagoneer or a ’86 Suburban in 2010 than this Infiniti?
A few CAN justify SUV’s, the large families and those that pull trailers, boats, etc. But here in the Dallas area where I’m living, nearly every one of the “sheeple” drives them. Usually it’s the women you see in them trying to multi-task while driving a vehicle that’s way too large for her abilities. It’s always fun watching them try to maneuver into parking spaces, unwilling to put the phone away and get the job done.
Anyway, this started out about this Infiniti, and I’m sticking with my initial opinion…UGLY.
@Carlson Fan — You appear to be an exception to my point, I’ll grant you… but for every person who needs an SUV, there are hundreds more who simply want what society tells them is the “cool” thing to have, or think that driving an SUV makes a statement to the world that they are ill-equipped to make on their own.
This isn’t limited to SUVs — the Prius sells for much the same reason — but they are the most egregious example.
The single-smartest thing Detroit did in the 90s was convince the sheeple that SUVs were a symbol of luxury. (Incidentally, I do find it telling you took pains to note you have the “LTZ” model, because what says “success” more than plastic wood and cheap leather? I kid, I kid…)
In a past life, I made some good money off selling Tahoes, Explorers and Expeditions to the sheeple. These were the ones who HAD to have the latest vehicular fad, regardless of whether it actually made sense to have one or not.
Some even financed for 84 months so they could have their shiny new SUVs… and I happily took their money. I figured I was under no particular obligation to dissuade them from a buying decision that simple math showed to be asinine.
Tell me… are those people “rational?”
Actually I’m hardly the exception. Many buy these types of vehicles because they need them regularly for their towing and people/cargo hauling capability. Look around, in the right places.
Seems to me you’ve got a big chip on your shoulder more than anything.
BTW what says success about my “LTZ” Tahoe is that it was paid for when I drove it off the lot …LOL
Yuck!
There’s a reason that plain, boxy Tahoes and Expeditions sell and these obese QXs (and the even more fat and droopy LX/Land Cruiser) don’t.
The funny thing is that it always moves down market.
When I was a teenager in the 80s, the upper middle had an SUV for those occasions when it was necessary to to tow the boat to the lake and take the kids.
The rest of the world seemed to manage 4 kids in a Honda Civic just fine. This sense of entitlement is human nature, but doomed to failure.
As nasty as it looks in these photos, it is uglier in person. Really unappealing design, with a bulging hood that undermines one of the main reasons for buying a beast like this, the “command” driving position.
Fortunately it is likely to be a rare sighting, given the current sales trends.
There are probably enough 140lb soccer moms who feel that this would be ‘even better’ than the Armadas that they’re currently piloting around the harbor – they’ll sell.
Looks like a bechromed bus.
+1 for the most truthful assesment of the vehicle I’ve heard yet. “Bechromed Bus.”
Some cars look better in person (the Mini Countryman was much better in person than I expected). I was the NAIAS this weekend. This Infiniti has mastered the ability to be stunningly WORSE in person. It can actually evoke feelings of anger when seen up close. It’s that ugly.
How this came from the same company that designed the Essence is beyond me.
Infinitis have recently become laughably unattractive, and this bloated relic (circa 2000) is the worst of the bunch. Overstyled, poorly and awkwardly proportioned and completely unnecessary.