2015 Infiniti Q60 Coupe Limited replace previous Q60 IPL
07-21-2014, 05:23 PM
#1
2015 Infiniti Q60 Coupe Limited replace previous Q60 IPL
2015 Infiniti Q60 Coupe
Dynamic exterior design, featuring seductive and muscular shapes, unique front fascia on Q60 Coupe Sport 6MT and Q60 Coupe Journey and Q60 Coupe AWD with Sport Package, driver-oriented sporty interior with luxurious passenger space, leather-appointed seating, Infiniti Intelligent Key with Push Button Ignition, standard 7.0-inch color monitor display, available RearView Monitor
Limited: unique sport styling and interior design, 19-inch 7-spoke Gloss Black-finish wheels and low-profile Bridgestone Potenza RE050A performance tire, sport suspension and sport muffler
- Two new models added: Q60S Coupe Limited 6MT and Q60S Coupe Limited (replace previous Q60 IPL Coupe 6MT and Q60 IPL Coupe AT)
- Two new exterior colors: Majestic White and Hagane Blue (Moonlight White is no longer available)
- Offered in five models: Q60 Coupe Journey, Q60 Coupe AWD, Q60S Coupe 6MT, Q60S Coupe Limited 6MT and Q60S Coupe Limited
- Expected availability in July 2014
Dynamic exterior design, featuring seductive and muscular shapes, unique front fascia on Q60 Coupe Sport 6MT and Q60 Coupe Journey and Q60 Coupe AWD with Sport Package, driver-oriented sporty interior with luxurious passenger space, leather-appointed seating, Infiniti Intelligent Key with Push Button Ignition, standard 7.0-inch color monitor display, available RearView Monitor
Limited: unique sport styling and interior design, 19-inch 7-spoke Gloss Black-finish wheels and low-profile Bridgestone Potenza RE050A performance tire, sport suspension and sport muffler
07-22-2014, 10:27 AM
#4
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Reading an Infiniti press release about their lineup in 2014:
Q..........Q..QQQ ........Q.Q .......Q.........Q
Which Q had those updates I was interested in? I can't remember. One of the Qs.
Q..........Q..QQQ ........Q.Q .......Q.........Q
Which Q had those updates I was interested in? I can't remember. One of the Qs.
07-22-2014, 11:01 AM
#6
I said "maybe we'll also look at the FX or EX...oh, sorry, QX-I have no idea what numbers they assigned to them anymore". Salesman laughed and said yeah the whole Q thing is kinda a pain in the butt.
But hey right in front they had a 2014 G37 IPL convertible. G37 dammit!!!
07-22-2014, 11:56 AM
#7
I feel like Infiniti is losing it's roots somehow. I feel a disconnect with Nissan and Infiniti. They can build the 370z and GT-R without issues and sale them well.
I feel like the G35 coupe was true to it's roots. The G37 went towards lux. I feel like Infiniti is doing what happen to Acura. The 1995 Acura Legend, The TL type-S and CL coupes were very fun cars to drive and everyone loved them. The coupe and NSX-Type R was very fun car with high reving eng. They killed them off and went into a direction that killed them. And now they are trying to revive the brand.
If Infiniti does not watch it! they would end up as the car that people don't want! :-(
1980s: Introduction of the Acura brand
Following a decade of research, Honda opened 60 new dealerships in North America by 1986, to support its Acura automobile division. Acura was the first Japanese luxury brand, introduced under the slogan, "Acura. Precision Crafted Performance."[1] Its initial offering consisted of two models: the executive class Legend and the compact class Integra, available as a five-door and three-door hatchback. The Legend was the result of Project XX, a joint venture Honda entered into with the UK's Austin Rover Group. It was mechanically related to the Rover 800 series, while the Integra was an improvement of the Honda Quint hatchback.[5]
The success of these models, particularly the Legend, led to competing Japanese luxury brand ventures (Toyota's Lexus that began development in 1983 as the F1 project, and Nissan's Infiniti who began development in 1985 by revising their Japan-only flagship Nissan President; in the late 1990s Mazda planned but never launched its own Amati luxury division). The goal of the Legend was to compete with rivals Toyota Crown and the Nissan Cedric and Gloria, but due to its 1986 introduction worldwide, Toyota, Nissan and other companies like Lincoln took notice of the markets reaction to the Legend and later the Vigor and offered vehicles that addressed the executive size car. Toyota introduced the Lexus ES, Nissan introduced the Infiniti J30 and Ford utilized the Taurus platform and named their new sedan the Lincoln Continental.
First generation Acura Integra
In 1987, Acura's first full year of sales, they sold 109,000 cars with the flagship Legend sedan accounting for 55,000 sales and the rest were of the smaller Integra. By 1990, Acura was selling 138,000 vehicles, including 54,000 Legends, compared to Mercedes-Benz's 78,000 cars and 64,000 each for BMW and Lexus.[4
Nissan Motors President and CEO, Carlos Ghosn, developed a business strategy to break Infiniti away from its Nissan roots. The G series helped re-define Infiniti as the "Japanese BMW", as it was aimed directly at the BMW 3 Series of sedans and coupes.[1] The M35/M45 garnered acclaim from the automotive press, winning an eight-car comparison test in Car and Driver, and the model was named the best luxury sedan by Consumer Reports.[citation needed] The M45 model featured the same engine as the Q45, and the M45 became the flagship model after the Q45 was discontinued. The Infiniti M (2003–2005) and the Infiniti G (starting in 2003) were known in Japan as the Nissan Gloria and the Nissan Skyline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infiniti_G
Infiniti (インフィニティ Infiniti?, IPA: [inɸinʲiti]) is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company. Infiniti officially started selling vehicles on November 8, 1989 in North America. The marketing network for Infiniti-branded vehicles now includes over 230 dealers in over 15 countries.[2]
The Infiniti marque was formally introduced to its homeland of Japan in 2013, with the first Japanese-market Infiniti vehicle to be a hybrid-powered variant of the Infiniti Q50 to go on sale in 2014, with gasoline-powered versions of the Q50 retaining the historic Nissan Skyline name according to Nissan Chief Planning Officer Andy Palmer.[3] However, this does not mark the first introduction of the Infiniti brand to Japan, with the original Q45 being sold as the Nissan Infiniti Q45 in Japan from November 1989 until 1996.[citation needed]
Key people Johan de Nysschen, CEO, Senior Vice President of Nissan Motors
I feel like the G35 coupe was true to it's roots. The G37 went towards lux. I feel like Infiniti is doing what happen to Acura. The 1995 Acura Legend, The TL type-S and CL coupes were very fun cars to drive and everyone loved them. The coupe and NSX-Type R was very fun car with high reving eng. They killed them off and went into a direction that killed them. And now they are trying to revive the brand.
If Infiniti does not watch it! they would end up as the car that people don't want! :-(
1980s: Introduction of the Acura brand
Following a decade of research, Honda opened 60 new dealerships in North America by 1986, to support its Acura automobile division. Acura was the first Japanese luxury brand, introduced under the slogan, "Acura. Precision Crafted Performance."[1] Its initial offering consisted of two models: the executive class Legend and the compact class Integra, available as a five-door and three-door hatchback. The Legend was the result of Project XX, a joint venture Honda entered into with the UK's Austin Rover Group. It was mechanically related to the Rover 800 series, while the Integra was an improvement of the Honda Quint hatchback.[5]
The success of these models, particularly the Legend, led to competing Japanese luxury brand ventures (Toyota's Lexus that began development in 1983 as the F1 project, and Nissan's Infiniti who began development in 1985 by revising their Japan-only flagship Nissan President; in the late 1990s Mazda planned but never launched its own Amati luxury division). The goal of the Legend was to compete with rivals Toyota Crown and the Nissan Cedric and Gloria, but due to its 1986 introduction worldwide, Toyota, Nissan and other companies like Lincoln took notice of the markets reaction to the Legend and later the Vigor and offered vehicles that addressed the executive size car. Toyota introduced the Lexus ES, Nissan introduced the Infiniti J30 and Ford utilized the Taurus platform and named their new sedan the Lincoln Continental.
First generation Acura Integra
In 1987, Acura's first full year of sales, they sold 109,000 cars with the flagship Legend sedan accounting for 55,000 sales and the rest were of the smaller Integra. By 1990, Acura was selling 138,000 vehicles, including 54,000 Legends, compared to Mercedes-Benz's 78,000 cars and 64,000 each for BMW and Lexus.[4
Nissan Motors President and CEO, Carlos Ghosn, developed a business strategy to break Infiniti away from its Nissan roots. The G series helped re-define Infiniti as the "Japanese BMW", as it was aimed directly at the BMW 3 Series of sedans and coupes.[1] The M35/M45 garnered acclaim from the automotive press, winning an eight-car comparison test in Car and Driver, and the model was named the best luxury sedan by Consumer Reports.[citation needed] The M45 model featured the same engine as the Q45, and the M45 became the flagship model after the Q45 was discontinued. The Infiniti M (2003–2005) and the Infiniti G (starting in 2003) were known in Japan as the Nissan Gloria and the Nissan Skyline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infiniti_G
Infiniti (インフィニティ Infiniti?, IPA: [inɸinʲiti]) is the luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Company. Infiniti officially started selling vehicles on November 8, 1989 in North America. The marketing network for Infiniti-branded vehicles now includes over 230 dealers in over 15 countries.[2]
The Infiniti marque was formally introduced to its homeland of Japan in 2013, with the first Japanese-market Infiniti vehicle to be a hybrid-powered variant of the Infiniti Q50 to go on sale in 2014, with gasoline-powered versions of the Q50 retaining the historic Nissan Skyline name according to Nissan Chief Planning Officer Andy Palmer.[3] However, this does not mark the first introduction of the Infiniti brand to Japan, with the original Q45 being sold as the Nissan Infiniti Q45 in Japan from November 1989 until 1996.[citation needed]
Key people Johan de Nysschen, CEO, Senior Vice President of Nissan Motors
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07-22-2014, 12:50 PM
#8
While I do feel they are losing their roots, I think they are going in the direction of making Infiniti a literal "higher end" Nissan. Which means a rebadged Maxima, Altima, etc.
No more completely different platforms (i.e. RWD, RWD biased AWD, etc) for Infiniti vs Nissan. They will just produce higher end versions of the Nissan vehicles and rebadge them. Case and point - Pathfinder/QX60. I worry thats going to be the beginning of the end for the "inspired performance" models. While the Q50 is already RWD, it might be the beginning of the last generation of RWD sedans for Infiniti. Hopefully Im way off base, but I just have a feeling.
Its far cheaper and easier for them to just rebadge Nissan stuff than it is to maintain separate platforms.
No more completely different platforms (i.e. RWD, RWD biased AWD, etc) for Infiniti vs Nissan. They will just produce higher end versions of the Nissan vehicles and rebadge them. Case and point - Pathfinder/QX60. I worry thats going to be the beginning of the end for the "inspired performance" models. While the Q50 is already RWD, it might be the beginning of the last generation of RWD sedans for Infiniti. Hopefully Im way off base, but I just have a feeling.
Its far cheaper and easier for them to just rebadge Nissan stuff than it is to maintain separate platforms.
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07-22-2014, 01:04 PM
#9
I don't get why they don't follow the Rich History of the Skyline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Skyline
The Nissan Skyline (スカイライン in Japanese) is a line of compact cars, sports cars and compact executive cars originally produced by the Prince Motor Company starting in 1955, and then by Nissan after the two companies merged in 1966. After the merger, the Skyline and its larger counterpart, the Nissan Gloria, were sold in Japan at dealership sales channels called Nissan Prince Shop.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Skyline
The Nissan Skyline (スカイライン in Japanese) is a line of compact cars, sports cars and compact executive cars originally produced by the Prince Motor Company starting in 1955, and then by Nissan after the two companies merged in 1966. After the merger, the Skyline and its larger counterpart, the Nissan Gloria, were sold in Japan at dealership sales channels called Nissan Prince Shop.
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