Hi all. Quick history...I leased a 2008 G35 for a year before purchasing an '06 M35 in 2009. I've driven it ever since and have absolutely loved the car. But it is finally time to upgrade. I'm leaning toward the Q70. I'm currently looking at a 2015 hermosa blue Q70 with really low miles. I've been shopping for this car for probably 5-6 months now and the thing that amazes me the most is the lack of them on the road. I think I've seen 2 since I started shopping. One in San Francisco and one in Phoenix. That's it! Am I missing something here? I'm willing to accept the simple fact that "I just haven't seen them even though they're around" but it does have me a little perplexed. Please, someone tell me I'm crazy. How many 2015/16 Q70 owners are there out there? What are your general impressions?

I'm curious about this too. The M37/56 is what I have a hard time finding in my city of about 300,000 people. I only saw one other than my own in over a year looking for them. And that one had Virginia plates, wasn't local. I saw one Q70 about a month ago, but that's it. Do people just not like these things enough to buy them, or what is the deal?

Apparently the Q70 isn't a hot seller. For the month of August, Infiniti sold a whopping 439 Q70's, which was 30% fewer than they sold in August 2015. So far this year they've sold a total of 4,093 which would explain why you're seeing so few on the road.

There is a lot of competition in the new Q70 price range from Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, etc. maybe in a few years when they depreciate and folks turn them in or trade up, you'll see more of them on the road, like you see the M's now.

Rogue One wrote:Apparently the Q70 isn't a hot seller. For the month of August, Infiniti sold a whopping 439 Q70's, which was 30% fewer than they sold in August 2015. So far this year they've sold a total of 4,093 which would explain why you're seeing so few on the road.

The Q70 is not meant to be a hot seller. The Q50 is the model that is pushed to consumers.

Here in the triangle there is one Q70L that I saw which happens to be a women who works for SAS Institute. Never seen anymore other than that one. I see several M's around now mostly 37's but as of now I have the only 56. I was behind a M37s a couple weeks ago cruising through Durham and heads were turning his was grey mine black. I thought that was rather cool lol.

There is a dark blue Q70 3.7 here in Winston-Salem running around. I actually have 2 M37's in my neighborhood here in Clemmons. One of them is the exact same color as my car and a white one. I haven't seen any M56's around the Triad. There are several G models sedans and coupes, and the newer Q50's and QX models around Winston.

armybrat wrote:There is a dark blue Q70 3.7 here in Winston-Salem running around. I actually have 2 M37's in my neighborhood here in Clemmons. One of them is the exact same color as my car and a white one. I haven't seen any M56's around the Triad. There are several G models sedans and coupes, and the newer Q50's and QX models around Winston.

I saw two M37's today both black one had 30 day tags but was the X model the other one was regular.

Both the Q70 and M56 seem to be rare around here. When I was shopping for my car I had the M56, Merc E550, CLS550 Audi S5 and A7 on my wish list. I checked the Auto trader every Friday for about 6 months seeing what was available in a 100mile radius. Every week there'd be over 25 Mercs and about 15 Audis for sale. Over the whole 6 months only 4 M56's came up for sale. Two 2011s and two 2013s, never saw a 2012 .

Q70s owner here and I love the fact that they aren't everywhere like 5 series BMWs. I think there are so many people that are way too stuck on "status" that they don't give the Infiniti's a fair chance when shopping for their vehicles. Pretty sure if you took the badging off of an E class, 5 series and a Q70 more people would choose the Infiniti than would have ignored it. I have seen 2 other Q70's in the wild around me. A Harbor Blue one and a Black one. I'm the only Moonlight White one I have seen in person anywhere.

In South Florida, I see the Q70 models often, but not even close to the number of Q50 models. I have yet to see a Q70-L, but plenty of Q70-S and base models. I went to my dealer for an oil / filter chnage about three weeks ago and whilst I waited, I roamed the lot to see what they had. They had a total of 6 Q70 models and only 1 of them was the L model. Yesterday, I went back to the dealer to pick up a new plastic seat control piece that was ordered for me. I checked the lot and only one lonely Q70-S was on the lot. Extrapolating that to a yearly sales figure, that means only about 40 are added to my streets in a year's time.
It's a matter of brand recognition and pedigree. Infiniti cannot compete with the history and pedigree of the Mercs and BMs. These two have been around since World War 1. Infiniti started in 1989 and is still not popular in most countries. Even today, Bentley sells more new cars in the UK than Infiniti and actually seeing an Infiniti in Germany is on par with being struck by lightning, LOL.

Also Infiniti does not run no where near the amount of tv ads that other Lux models run

Rogue One wrote:Apparently the Q70 isn't a hot seller. For the month of August, Infiniti sold a whopping 439 Q70's, which was 30% fewer than they sold in August 2015. So far this year they've sold a total of 4,093 which would explain why you're seeing so few on the road.

This is why we can't have nice (aftermarket) things.

Great input and feedback. Thanks everyone for chiming in. I'm picking up my 2015 Q70 on Thursday and couldn't be more excited!

Next up...what are the most popular mods?

I have a 2015 Q70L, bought new about 6 months ago. I think I've seen 2 or 3 other Q70 and no other L in that time.

Bet you see a bunch of 5 and 7 series BMWs though huh.. lol

Always plenty of G37/Q50 around. I saw one M56 around here before buying mine in '14. Took me 6 months to find a used M56s for sale. Probably only saw 2 M56 since then and none of the Q70 have been the V8. But probably only seen 20 or less M35/45/37/56/Q70 in the last 2 years round here. Besides the ones sitting at the dealer, believe they have 8 or so Q70, all 3.7L, usually about half of them are L models. No S models.

Out of curiosity I looked at AutoTrader, there are 313,000 vehicles for sale in Canada on Auto trader. Only 5 M56's are listed. 5 in the whole of Canada. By comparison there are 121 Bentleys, 53 Rolls Royce and 36 McLarens!. Hell there's twice as many Packard's for sale and you would have better luck finding a Ferrari Testarosa than an M56 and they stopped selling that 27 years ago. Even the Q70 with the V8 is extremely rare. We have a rare precious gem.

I've seen one Q70 in my area. There are 2 M56x including mine and I'll see a M37 every now and then. I like not having a bunch of cars like mine around.

armybrat wrote:There is a lot of competition in the new Q70 price range from Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, etc. maybe in a few years when they depreciate and folks turn them in or trade up, you'll see more of them on the road, like you see the M's now.

just made me laugh, i understand the thought process ,but really if the cars depreciate we can see them more often!!

Right ? Depreciated or not...we'd still see the new ones riding around right ? Unless the people that can afford the brand new ones only drive around on private roads ? Lol

NRGM45 wrote:Bet you see a bunch of 5 and 7 series BMWs though huh.. lol

This is exactly why I am drawn to Infiniti. It's an understated luxury, IMO. Looking forward to picking up my Q70 tomorrow!

I saw my first Q70 on the road today. I've never seen an M56 nor M37 during the past year of ownership. Yes, I keep an eagle eye open for Infiniti's now.

I've only met 2 ppl who claimed to own an M56, but not seen their cars. One of those 2 ppl was filling up a Q80 loaner with gasoline while her M56 was getting its timing chain recall fix.

ibc wrote:I saw my first Q70 on the road today. I've never seen an M56 nor M37 during the past year of ownership. Yes, I keep an eagle eye open for Infiniti's now.

I've only met 2 ppl who claimed to own an M56, but not seen their cars. One of those 2 ppl was filling up a Q80 loaner with gasoline while her M56 was getting its timing chain recall fix.

This is amazing to me! What part of the country are you in? I see M37's somewhat frequently but I still haven't seen a Q70 on the road in Phoenix. I'd be curious to know how many are really on the road around here.

NRGM45 wrote:Right ? Depreciated or not...we'd still see the new ones riding around right ? Unless the people that can afford the brand new ones only drive around on private roads ? Lol

mazz wrote:just made me laugh, i understand the thought process ,but really if the cars depreciate we can see them more often!!

Most folks lease these cars...as such, they tend to keep the mileage down and not drive them as often as folks who purchase them. Maybe they have a second car as a daily driver (I did when I leased my Lincoln years ago), or however else to keep the mileage down. Translates into not seeing them on the road as much as later on when they are turned in and folks buy them off a lease turn in...that was my "thought process" anyway.

That makes sense armybrat.

I just did a quick check on CarMax. There are TONS of Infiniti on offer, but only ONE Q70 within 500 miles of my home. It's the L model with the 3.7 and has under 1,000 miles:
https://www.carmax.com/cars/infiniti/q70/2016/13363305

I can only imagine the Q70 V8 is even more rare. Car Gurus has a few AWD's

https://www.cargurus.com/Cars/l-Used-20 ... AWD-t56798

Just did a quick search on autotrader for the entire country, for just used/certified Q70 5.6L (regular or L versions). Only about 20-25 listed.

Larz wrote:I just did a quick check on CarMax. There are TONS of Infiniti on offer, but only ONE Q70 within 500 miles of my home. It's the L model with the 3.7 and has under 1,000 miles:
https://www.carmax.com/cars/infiniti/q70/2016/13363305

use www.cars.com you will see different results