

Oh, please. "Crossover" is just a term slapped onto just about every other car or SUV these days. It means nothing. We have always called these vehicles "SUV's". No need to change that now. It's a bad attempt to get soccer moms to feel like they fit in with the rest of these idiots.This forum references the FX as a hot rod SUV. I take issue with that description in that the FX is not a SUV.
A SUV is Truck designed to carry passengers, enhanced with car interior.
I don't know about anyone else but all my paper work on my FX referred to it as a "Crossover / special purpose vehicle" in fact It is an insult for someone to compliment me by saying " nice truck".
In a Crossover it's the drive train and suspension that make it an uniquely superior design.
I would never consider owning a truck for a number of performance reasons, ad that to the fact that I don't have a reasonable need to own a truck.
The space and height the crossover offers blinds many to the fact that it is more of a car than a SUV and by no means a TRUCK.
My fully loaded FX has more in common with a computer than a truck, In fact I refer to it as a computer on wheels.
Are other FX owners annoyed by the TRUCK reference when describing your FX.



Thorshammer wrote:Wrong.This forum references the FX as a hot rod SUV. I take issue with that description in that the FX is not a SUV.
A SUV is Truck designed to carry passengers, enhanced with car interior.
This is simply marketing doing what it's supposed to do; make people believe that they are buying something "new and fresh". It's an SUV. Deal with it. I hope you feel good about yourself, being another senseless sheep to follow blindly what a company says. If I was driving an FX and someone told me that I have a "nice truck", I would take it as a compliment. You obviously know what they mean. Stop being so uptight.I don't know about anyone else but all my paper work on my FX referred to it as a "Crossover / special purpose vehicle" in fact It is an insult for someone to compliment me by saying " nice truck".
You think that the FX is a performance vehicle? If anything, the [pickup] truck would give you better performance than your SUV.In a Crossover it's the drive train and suspension that make it an uniquely superior design.
I would never consider owning a truck for a number of performance reasons, ad that to the fact that I don't have a reasonable need to own a truck.No your SUV is an SUV. Not a Crossover. As I said before, the term "Crossover" irritates me. It's either a car, an SUV, or a truck. Even if I accepted a Crossover as a valid type of vehicle... it would still be a subcategory of an SUV.
The space and height the crossover offers blinds many to the fact that it is more of a car than a SUV and by no means a TRUCK.So, disconnected driving feel is a good thing?My fully loaded FX has more in common with a computer than a truck, In fact I refer to it as a computer on wheels.
The fact that you refer to it as a "computer on wheels" shows what kind of personality you have. You like to brag to your friends, family, and co-workers how much more wonderful your FX is compared to whatever they drive. Even if their car is better in all aspects.
Thorshammer wrote:Not all FX's are AWD. Where are you pulling this information from about how "it was the first crossover"? Even if it was a Crossover... it's certainly not the first.Actually the FX is a AWD vehicle and it was the first crossover.
They're made by the same company. They aren't direct competitors. It's not a knockoff either. The Murano is designed as a mom-mobile. Completely different target audience.Every thing else including your Maurano is a knock off of the FX.
The reason the Murano has SUV suspension is because IT'S AN SUV! So is yours. Just because it doesn't have suspension designed for an SUV doesn't make it something other than an SUV. Your car has an SUV body and that's the main thing that determines what kind of vehicle it is. Get your head out of your butt and realize this.Introduced at the 2002 auto show and it went into production in 2003.
Unlike the Maurano it shares it's suspension with the M45
The Maurano has a SUV based suspension
And yes to drive a truck just for the sake of driving a truck is a mentality I do not share.
Normally a person who likes trucks like them big, the bigger the better.
To me that represents a mentality that is more focused on image and excess than the technology and performance represented by the FX.
A station wagon is a type of car... not an SUV... which the Murano is. A hatch back is a term used to describe a body style of a car, like a VW Golf for example. "Hatch back" is not meant to describe a certain feature of a vehicle. You're wrong again.It's like calling your Maurano a hatch back or a station wagon which by definition would fit both.
But the image it would produce in some ones mind would not come close to what the Maurano actually is.
That's why I hate it when they call it a truck
Thorshammer wrote:WE have a hard time understanding!? WE DO!? WAKE UP!Man....The truckers will converge on you in a second...
Many took offense to a unchangeable fact.
The FX is not a truck
Somehow that truth bothered people for some reason I have hard time understanding.
The FX is closer to a truck than it is a car. As you will see above, I referred to your FX as a "car". Will you take offense to that? It's because cars are for poor people right? You need to get out of your little fantasy world of "crossovers" and all of us being country hick truckers.
All you're doing here is degrading the credibility of the FX. You're making it sound like it's a vehicle for a market that doesn't exist.Based on the responses I can tell who has or has not driven a FX.
Let me put it another way for the sensitive members..
A person who goes out to buy a truck for hauling stuff is not going to consider a FX. ( FX = No hauling capacity and not designed for off road )
A person who goes out to buy a SUV to transport people is not going to consider a FX ( FX = Only two rows of seats )
A person who goes out to buy a truck has several makers and models to chose from as with the person who buys the SUV.
A good example of your "rich man" attitude. News flash, the Murano isn't a knockoff of the FX. I believe that the Murano actually came out before the FX did. According to the way that your mind works, that would make your beloved FX a knockoff of the Murano. What ever will we do now?A person who wants but cant afford a FX may buy a knock off like the Maurano or any of the other knock offs that have sprung up since and bearing the name of crossover.
This makes no sense at all. I love the Infiniti FX. It's not as good as youre making it sound though. You think it's some sort of ultra-exclusive luxury car. They're fairly common.A person who goes out to buy a FX, will only buy a FX.
Because nothing else compares.
Thorshammer wrote:I don't care what the dealer says. The FX is an SUV, plain and simple.You can use a car to tow with..... does that make a car a SUV?
Before the SUV there was the station wagon. People towed with it too but no one called it a truck.
infiniti has the Q56
If you go to the dealer and ask to see a SUV or a truck they will show you the Q56
Any infiniti dealer will tell you the FX is not a truck.
There are plenty of luxury cars out there that are off-road capable. If you have the money, why wouldn't you want a truck that can both, make it's way through the woods, while also doing it in comfort and luxury.Sure you can tow with the FX, sure you can drive it off road, but why would you buy a luxury car to drive it off road or attach a trailer hitch to it and haul stuff around with it?
Whatever I could put here has already been said.Thats what they make trucks for.
Infiniti will tell you they do not recommend you take the FX off road.
Common sense dictates that you would you get a 4WD truck if you plan on doing a lot of off road driving.
That in itself is the difference between the average FX driver and a trucker, The average FX owners have no desire to drive their FX off road.
Calm down and read back through the post.Otto MCR wrote:No one called it a truck aside from the people you told us about in your first post. Everyone in this thread has disagreed with you so far. Stop being so full of yourself and thinking that you're better than everyone else. Accept it as a compliment, change you attitude and people might like you.
Otto MCR wrote:You're STILL missing my point. Good job.

snwbrdr435 wrote:IB4TL
You're going on about the same thing. I told you that you're missing my point. I'm not calling your FX a truck... It's not... I'm saying that you need to accept what other people do. If someone wants to compliment you, let them. Don't get all nit-picky about how you're correct and they aren't.Thorshammer wrote:Otto MCR wrote:You're STILL missing my point. Good job.
For those who can see case closed, for those who don't want to see look the other way
Yeah, like I'm gonna hitch a trailer hitch up to this and drive it over the mountains.
They make TRUCKS for stuff like that.
Based on your opinions, Maybe if you had a FX you would tear yours up like that.
You want to go off road pulling trailers in luxury?
There's a oxy moron in there somewhere but, in my opinion the Range Rover would the ideal vehicle to buy and yes it is a TRUCK and like the FX based on what the Range Rover is designed for Nothing else compares.
It's not a car nor a crossover or a van or a hatchback or a station wagon it is a TRUCK.
A person who goes out to buy a Range Rover will not consider FX because that person wants a TRUCK.
As an additional point a person who wants a Range Rover and can afford one will buy a Range Rover because nothing else compares.
I actually tend to agree.Thorshammer wrote:This forum references the FX as a hot rod SUV. I take issue with that description in that the FX is not a SUV.
A SUV is Truck designed to carry passengers, enhanced with car interior.
Actually, Nissan's own Murano (which beat the FX to the market by a model year) is generally considered to be the car that started the crossover craze.Thorshammer wrote:Actually the FX is a AWD vehicle and it was the first crossover.



WOW!BBISHOPPCM wrote:Man, from your elitist descriptions of your FX, I'm inclined to believe Nissa... sorry; Infiniti, has a special factory in the land of Oz (in the suburb of Infinitiland) where only master craftsmen descending from the Samurai caste are allowed to enter; but once beyond the grand, platinum-plated doors an amazing sight beholds you; thousands of specially-bred 1' tall craftsmen build each FX35/45 by hand using tools handed down by their ancestors (who used to build Datsun 1600 roadsters). Each part is driven to the factory by limousine (no big mean trucks are allowed in Infinitiland) from their respective suppliers (Visteon, Calsonic, Johnson Controls, Hitachi, Delphi, Bosch, and Niles... the same parts suppliers for the FX's evil stepbrother; MURANO!), then each part is kissed by a unicorn, and inspected by leprechauns. Once the FX is assembled (a four-month process for each vehicle), they are tested, inspected, and certified for sale by a team consisting of Santa Clause, Jesus Christ, Bill Gates, and Zsa Zsa Gabor. Once an FX is born, it is then transported to an Infiniti dealer near you by rickshaw (pulled by a team of Murano owners) to be sold to only the most discerning of auto buyer. Gotta go cash my welfare check... the Murano payment's due tomorrow. I only hope I have enough money left over to rent a tuxedo so I'll be allowed to see how rich folk live and test-drive a new Infiniti.