I happened to be looking at infiniti.com for no particular reason and saw a little icon that says "Introducing Full Size" and a link to a slideshow talking about their upcoming full-sized SUV for spring '04. There's no real pics but they show you little glimpses of the thing in a flash animation. Looks to be a gussied-up Pathfinder Armada with a really funky front end.

Here's the link: http://www.infiniti.com/form/global/...er/1,,,00.html

If this happens to be really old news or something, then oops.

 

Yep, the QX56. Which looks way too much like the Pathfinder, the same problem the QX45 had. Nissan sketch:

 

Ugly pos....

On a side note, my mom used to have Qx4, and it was the worst SUV ever. There's not a single positive thing I could say about it, maybe besides that the audio was decent. When she finally god rid of it, and got an MDX it was unbelievable how much better the MDX is in every aspect.

 

Yeah, it'll be a huge SOB. It dwafed a Q45 in spy photos we posted a while ago. :huh:

Oh yeah, and this "news" is about 6 months old

 

Oh yeah, another oversized, overweight, gas and spacing hogging Stupid Useless Vehicle for the American market!! I can hardly wait.

 

that is really ugly. And so is the Nissan version. What was Nissan thinking with this one :dunno:

 

people are just gobbling up anything nissan comes out with, even if it looks like crap and the interior sucks. the only good looking cars IMO are the g35 coupe, z, and fx.

 

What the hell are you talking about? Altima isn't selling very well, Q45 and M45 sell terribly, I35 is being discontinued, Sentra is selling way behind the class leaders, Pathfinder and XTerra have huge incentives on them...

 

Yeah the only thing that's selling well out of Nissan is the Z, Murano, G35 and FX. Even of those models all have plenty in dealer inventory except for the G35C which is imported here in the smallest numbers. Go to a Nissan dealer and there are plenty of Zs and Muranos on the lot and Infinity dealers have lots of G35 Sedans and FXs to choose from.

 

The Altima is doing quite nicely in sales. Much better than how it used to do. 17k-19k in sales a month isn't bad. They not selling everyone they make, but it's pretty evenly flow. The new Maxima is doing quite well too. It's selling about 8k-9k a month. Even when the Maxima is more pricy than it used to be, the sales # are not sagging. They're producing as much as they could, so I'm sure if they can produce more, it would probably sell more. Nissan does have the most efficient plant out there.

The G35 coupe is actually selling better than the G35 sedan, so they're making and importing it as fast as they could. It's not limited by any mean. Just very high demand. In any high production car, you'll always see a good amount of selection on the lot. It doesn't mean that it's not selling well though.

98CoupeV6, all the model you listed that's not doing well are "old" models. And I agree. All the new redesigned Nissan are selling quite well.