Next Generation EX?

[XIS]

HORRIBLE marketing decision. WTF are they thinking? Someone and his boss should get the axe yesterday.

[EX-KAT-35]

I would highly doubt that after the "G" saved Infiniti it would be getting the axe - namewise???



Stranger things have happened in the car world but that would rank up there with the top most of them all.

All of a sudden a fixation on the letter "Q"

[JohnD]

Here is the link: http://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-c ... -announced

QX56 will be renamed QX80

[Mandragora]

Everybody knows what the QX56 is. The new EX will be named QX50 with the existing QX56 being an entirely different car? Is there a link to explain?

http://www.infinitiusa.com/now/news-and ... ction.html

[meanie]

They would not announce it prior to the whole line name change to "Q's".

The new G is going to be a Q50...due in about 10 days at the Detroit Auto Show. Our EX will now be Qx50's....

Nobody is searching for QX's yet...or even know what they are.

So what if someone gets what we now call a G37X, would it be a Q50(x)? At least the current system has the benefit of separating the models, giving engine size and denoting if awd or not. Apparently some new management decided that people look at the numbers and think a smaller one denotes a "lesser" car. Well, yeah, it means a smaller engine and MSRP. Perhaps they are getting ready to roll out a 4 cylinder turbo or something. I'd rather see them go to the Japanese names as in calling the G a Skyline. This Q idea just seems confusing, and for the EX, JX and FX risks confusing names with Audi's SUVs. Plus, what the hell does 50 denote? A 50 grand MSRP to pay for the costs of changing the names?

[DDS]

What a seemingly nonsensical bit of executive uselessness. However, it is their company. So does anyone have a link to substantiate that the EX is being redesigned and scheduled for a mid year introduction?

Sweet Jesus I hope they don't ruin the EX.