Thus is the case with the 2009 Infiniti QX56. I don’t have a need to move a basketball team, so I don’t see the need to have a car that doubles as a city bus. I guess I just don’t understand. But similarly, I don’t understand why Infiniti insists on making SUVs in the first place. The luxury arm of Nissan has long been accused of shoddily repackaging Nissan SUVs for luxury consumption and an inflated price tag, and sadly nowhere else is this apparent more than in the QX56. It’s a Nissan Armada in every way but one: the badge. The QX56, like other Infiniti SUVs is clunky and difficult to handle, whereas the coupes and sedans from Infiniti’s capable plants are bright and nimble.
And while the Nissan Armada is dramatically overpriced at $50,000 when fully loaded, the QX56 is downright ludicrous when it is similarly loaded at more than $60,000. But again, I guess I just don’t understand. The fully loaded, 320-horsepower, 8-cylinder powerplant powers the land yacht aptly and coupled with the standard 5-speed automatic it lumbers around adequately, but without urgency. However, sitting in the cabin of the QX56 is a trip to the office of redundancy office. Buttons, dials and levers control different things that I’m not quite sure anyone without an advanced degree would be able to understand, but all managed to serve the same purpose: confusion.
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