Will Infiniti stop making sedans?

[Larz]

Not sure if you are aware, but American car makers have severely cut back on sedans in the last few years. Chrysler only offers one sedan - the 300. Dodge only offers two - Challenger and Charger. Now, Ford says by 2020 it will no longer sell cars for the US market. They have already stopped development of all sedans after the current year. Their plans are to keep the Mustang, but drop ALL of the sedans - even the hybrids. Their goal is to be 90% cross-overs, SUVs, and trucks in the near future.
GM has officially reported they will make significantly less investment in sedans of any kind: "GM execs are meeting to decide if they want to kill the Volt and the Impala. Those are just two models that have already been rumored to be axed, the others being the Chevy Sonic (which is reportedly already on death row), Buick LaCrosse, Cadillac CT6, and Cadillac XTS." - Reuters
Cadillac is not expecting to discontinue the XTS model, and the CTS and ATS will soon be dropped and replaced by one vehicle called the CT5, leaving only two choices for luxury sedans.

They are all putting their hopes into cross-overs and SUVs and dropping or curtailing hybrids and electric cars. I'm wondering if Infiniti, Mercedes, Audi, and BMW will soon follow. Already all four are coming out with new cross-overs and SUV models every year but no new sedan models.

Infiniti has introduced the re-designed QX50, face-lifted the other QX models, but has done nothing with the Q50 and Q70 - they have not been changed in a meaningful way since they were launched. Is this why the Q70 still has the same interior as the M37 / M56 which is only slightly different than the M35 / M45 dating all the way back to 2006?

What do you think the future holds for those of us who still want to drive a luxury / sport sedan?

[macgiver]

mac , just buy "retro - used" vehicles , that's my strategy for the time being - TSOL ! I'm keeping my eye on 'boosted" turbo / S.C. engines and if DIG - better yet ! Gotta sell one 'o the s*** first s*** - Boston slang for an older , out of style ,delapitated ,die-hard , beater , you and other drivers just don't give a SH$&%%*@TT about.

[audtatious]

I think it all depends on what is selling. The Q50 is not doing too badly in comparison to others it competes with as it sells more than the Lexus IS, Audi a4, and others. It does fall well below the C-class on an annual basis, but, I expected that. The Q50 sells more yearly than the QX30 and QX50 combined. The only vehicle that is equal is the 2016+ QX60 which has similar numbers.

If anything is dropped from a sedan perspective it would be the Q70 which sells about 5k units a year from what I can see (vs 40k+ for the Q50).

[EdBwoy]

I think the Q50 has so many varieties (drivetrain and interior packages) in the stable that there simply is no way to lose money on those. First Infiniti I ever saw with cloth seats.
I think making the Halo-ish car, the red sport 400 indicates some hope or intention with the lineup.

What still boggles me is the QX80 guzzler. Even at lease prices, they aren't exactly cheap, but they are a damn good bargain for the features and compared to the little competition there is. They greatly outnumber even Armadas out here, and I'll probably see 10 of these before I see an M37 or Q70 3.7.
Even rarer, make that 30 v8 SUVs for every 1 sedan v8 I see

[Ilya]

It will be a sad day.

[audtatious]

I rarely see Q70/M's anywhere. Not surprising due to the numbers sold.

[LIBRILZ]

I doubt they will stop making sedans, the companies that are stopping the productions of sedans always made lackluster ones lol, plus the cars like q70 and such are sold in many other countries, offsetting the sometimes lower sales in the states, so I think there is enough justification and money to pump out newer stuff