Infiniti actually sells quite well you see them everywhere in America

@@dramacentral5776 I beg to differ

@@HOTPLATEGAMING you can beg but that doesn’t change the fact bro

@DRAMA CENTRAL Numbers don't lie. They don't sell well in North America 2022 only 46k You can look it up Not sure where you think Infinti is doing well in the US

I am looking for an SUV considering the current state of roads in the UK.

Yeah but Americans have terrible taste in cars.

100%!

I used one in the USA each time I'd visit for work, it had the same exhaust note of the 350z (which was a car that was all the rage at the time) and it drove well. It left an impression that I bought a new one in the UK (QX70d) in 2014.

It basically influenced the design of their SUV's for the next 20 years.

Easily 20 years!

We had 2004 fx45, it was awesome car for the time

​@@drock852, same engine and exhaust and the G35 Infiniti coupe and 350Z. The 350Z and G35 coupe are the same cars except the Infiniti is a 5 seater. I absolutely hated the exhaust note on all 3 vehicles.

Neither they're both abysmal vehicles

@@PoloDaBear Agreed, The Range Rover or BMW will cost you a bundle to maintain.

@@PoloDaBear I'd argue for the Lexus. I bought my RX 3 years ago for 1/6th the original price from the original owner, it is currently 13 years old, has 280000 km and has zero things broken on it. For the entire length of ownership it hasn't failed me even once. It is big, comfortable and surprisingly fuel efficient. I spend over 3 hours every day stuck in traffic, I just want a reliable comfortable car. I only had to replace wear items, rear shocks, suspension bushings and a water pump (the last by my own choice), and when I did, it cost me barely more then the equivalent toyota service, because the parts are the same. The range rover would have half its electrical systems broken by now, and BMW would have its vanos lines cracked inside the engine.

Everything comes with compromise. As someone who enjoys driving, I’ll take the compromise of reliability for an enjoyable driving experience and drive a Rover or BM. Yes the Lex is reliable, but good lord is it borrrrrring.

Easy question. The driver of The Range Rover and BMW. You buy a luxury car for its luxurious high-tech features, not for its reliability. Those brands offer cars far more luxurious and technologically advanced than any Lexus which feels older inside than a 10-year-old German car. People understand this, which is why in Europe Lexus has sold 744,000 since 1990something but Mercedes-Benz sold 770,000 cars in a single year.

Nissan marketing department should be fired the infinity wasnt marketed well enough even the special version no one know about it (vettel edition), name was kind of new for everyone to care , again old fx35 was a success but there is fx35 and fx37 why the confusion ? Why just release fx 37 straight in 2009 and keep the fx35 vq35hr for the 2008 models , many mistakes doomed this beautiful car , vq engines are reliable but i ve no idea about the diesel , i owned the fx35hr 2009 was a great car easy to work on but the previous owner didnt take care of it so i had to fix many problems.

I have had A Golf GTI i our family (MK5) for the last 10 years and it didnt have a single issue (apart for squeeking belt which needed replacement) in that time. So I guess it is a lot about tanking care of the cars, maybe also about luck.

@@elukok Maybe he had a newer Golf

Hi, how much fuel does it consume per 100km? Is the entertainment/GPS very outdated? Danke!

@@wehaack2262 9.5 l per 100km outside, 12-14 in city

The unreliable cars you are speaking of must be German garbage cars. People who have them tend to be douchebags that like to brag and boast about how much they piss away on failed items on their cars. Its a source of extreme pride when they go to the dealer and come back with tales of $5K+ (The higher amount the more bragging rights they seem to think they have) in repairs, meanwhile people who own Japanese cars are too busy enjoying driving them to even care to hear it.

Yeah, they also screwed up by changing the names to Q and QX this and that. Whoever is leading these changes is a damn idiot.

I have checked out some of the body kits for the FX and they look awesome. Especially that front of the Draco kit.

I think the average consumer would have zero idea what a Skyline even is (Toyota Crown is just as famous in Japan, yet how many people knew about those?), and many (not all) enthusiasts have these grand images of Skyline's being racing and tuning monsters, and would be unfairly disappointed or angry when faced with the reality that not all Skylines were GT-Rs and were mostly humdrum business saloons. See the Integra, which was always a Civic in a sportier body with 5-door bodystyles available from the start, but didn't stop people from being disappointed cos they always pictured an Integra as being a Type-R coupé.

@@KA467 Where I live we got so many ex-japan "Skyline" 4 door, 2 litre, 4 speed auto family shitboxes imported during the early 2000's that to me, that's what I think of when I hear "Skyline" - if you add the "GTR" on the end, it means something.

@@KA467 Skylines have long been an enthusiast favorite, that would definitely stir public interest.

@Kar Wai Wong "not all Skylines are GT-Rs" Tbh you can apply that to European brands as well. Not all Mercedes C classes are C63 AMGs. Not all BMW 3ers are M3s. Not all Audi A4s are RS4s. Just because they make cheaper versions of a model doesn't make it "worse". I would blame that on marketing team only focusing on the top version of a model and not the rest of the model range as well. The buying public would obviously not know as you said.

The G37s was a beast and a real competitor to the 3 series. But they just never improved it. It was actually my first car. It’s crazy to me that Japanese car makers doesn’t understand how much people that like cars love JDMs. The G37 is called a Skyline 370 GT in Japan. Why they didn’t use the skyline name for that car and the GTR is beyond me. And then they named it even worse with Q70 or whatever it became after. My 2nd car that I switched to was the 335i e90 and it still is the car I miss driving the most to this day.

Yeah that's how I feel about the QX50, the last gen at least, a lifted 370Z with a backseat and more practicality, and I say that as someone who has a 350Z.

@@jjay350 I used to follow infiniti closely until they left Europe, they ended up merging the QX70 and qx50 models into a newly designed qx50 which I think looks neat but unfortunately it doesn't share the chassis with anything performance oriented unlike the first and second gen fx/qx.

I now remember why I sold mine, the dealer was shit and there were some quality problems. Firstly, the pdi prep was poor, paint was marred as they didn't remove the protective wrapping properly (there's a heat gun process that needs following to get rid of these specific marks). God knows what the dealer did as that mark was scratched up and probably hand polished by an idiot. Luckily they paid for a paint correction. Secondly within 4 weeks it was leaking oil, the crank seals failed and were weeping oil, car recovered, no courtesy car given but returned fixed nonetheless. Thirdly, the leather was like paper and developed a strange tear within a year, not caused by clothing. I showed the dealer the seat, asked the service manager to push his finger into a particular area and it started tearing, weird! They replaced the drivers seat bottom cushion. Unfortunately the clown who did the work jammed in a number of screwdrivers to do the work which permanently damaged the hard plastic area of the seat bottom around the edge where they wedged tooling into. For this however they gave me a nice q50 courtesy car, with dead skin, bogeys and bitten off nails all over the seat and in the cup holder. All of this happened in the first 1.5 years within warranty, but I now see that many of these cars have lasted well, I may have been unlucky. The dealership experience in infiniti St Albans was poor, nothing like a premium or semi premium brand. Also They don't wear their interiors too well though I noticed - even at the time in 2014 looking at 2012 cars, just light tarnishing to be fair but more than I'd have expected. I did the best to keep mine in tip top condition, detailed, properly cleaned etc. The next owner appreciated the care given to the car, its been in sw London with a personal numberplate since 2016. He thought I took a huge depreciation hit when he bought it, but he didn't know what I actually paid for it. Infinitis heavy discounts took care of that for me, so in total it was super cheap motoring for me. If I still had it, it would be worth roughly half of what I paid after 8+ years.

It is effectively a 370Z on stilts, specifically its based on the JDM Skyline of the time which was a damn good drive. Never liked that infotainment system much but the looks certainly appeal compared to other SUVs.

@@stevenfarrington2361 yep it indeed! The infotainment is similar to the one used in the gtr iirc. I used to geek out on this stuff. I imagine the q60 is also a good buy, the 400bhp version is a decent drive.

I adore my V8 - I've never heard or experienced any kind of overheating, even when towing in Spain/South of France during the summer.

I own a QX70S 5.0 and have never heard of any cases of overheating of either the engine or especially the trans. Not really any overheating issues with any Nissan/Infiniti engine outside of neglect

Mine a 2009 fx 2nd Gen overheated twice until a mechanic told me I wasn't bleeding the system of air properly. There's a bleed valve somewhere in the engine bay and once I bled it, the overheating stopped.

I would have the X5 instead of it all day. Even with those issues you mentioned. It is car in a different league.

@@elukok the X5 is disposable German garbage. Throw them away after the warranty.

@@elukok yeah, different league of being crap, literally every single x5 of this infiniti’s age here where i live have been scrapped

@@elukok Facts lol

Always drove bmws until I got a good deal on a qx70. Wow I was so impressed and no maintenance . It is up there with bmw

I really don't like popular cars, I'm glad I don't see much of mine on the road when I drive, unlike how lexus 350 are every where I go. I love the uniqueness.

The vettel didn't have steer by wire, but a nice car nonetheless

There was indeed a "Vettel" edition - £108k when new! £35k now

Steer by wire is different from active rear steer assit.. and I believe the drive by wire was not available on the top end qx70 limited, last model run in 2017.

@@nigelhenry5741 Useful information.

I actually stumbled across a Vettel edition in a local car park last month, Wife didn't believe me when I said How much they were new. Some really old guy got out of it

Yeah but their current lineup sucks besides the Q50, but that has issues. They screwed up by not continuing the FX / G line and just redesigning them. They changed them all to Q and QX basically and ruined the lineage. They ruined the name and basically the brand did themselves in. They need to redesign and bring back the FX . Even this one in the video looks better than almost all sport crossovers even on the road in 2023.

Na, sometimes you get a few videos like that together - and a couple of recent ones have been very popular - but I like to keep the overall bias positive. In recent videos of that note, see: Cayenne GTS review, Peugeot 407, Skoda Octavia, Discovery 4,. You just gotta remember that more negative titles "sell". I don't like it either, but that's how it is. Hope that helps.

One problem now. The M35h began in 2013 with a battery pack that Infiniti estimated was good for 10 years. Who'd buy used ones today *knowing* (and there's the rub) that expense loomed large?

@@Matt_from_Florida Yeah, that's true. If I owned one, I'd probably start by phoning one of the firms that do recon Toyota Prius battery packs, and see if they'll do the M35h as well. Though I don't know how similar the cells they used for the M35h are to Toyota's system.

@@HirooKoslov Recon companies only replace bad battery cells so when you get it back the battery-pack once again has 100% of its original power. However, the old cells that they did not replace are still on the verge of going bad according to their 10-year lifespan. But that's why it's cheaper to recon a battery-pack than to buy a new one. It's the old adage, *_"You get what you pay for."_*

@@Matt_from_Florida Yes, of course. But it'll at least spread the cost of the repair over some amount of time. And of course the same company will replace all the cells if you pay them to. It'll be a significant bill, but it also won't be the end of the world. It'd probably be worth it if you like the car and plan to keep it in the long term.

Thank you for your decent review. As an Infiniti driver, my first infiniti was FX35 2005. Boy that car was a monster with sexy looking, loved the power it had and the luxurious interior. I kept it until the new design came out in 2009, so I purchased it right away and it was such a reliable SUV. I put 200k within 5 years and still when I sold it, I sold it with $18,000. The parts they I services were oil change, rotors and breaks. Since I sold my FX in 2013, I hadn't driven anything and just two weeks ago, I found the lowest FX35 milage in all Canada. It's FX35 2012 with ONLY 2800km for ONLY $22000 ..guess what ? I bought the vehicle cash right away. The car was being used only for summer and been kept indoor for all these years. So this car is a time traveler and I won't replace it with anything else.

Yep, the QX30 was just a rebadged Merc GLA with the 2.2d merc engine. The GLA being sh^t to begin with, so it didnt stand a chance.

Their business model was laughable.

Two weeks!? I wanted a spare part for my Peugeot (a random trim piece that Pug only installed in Japanese cars). My local pug dealer got me the part...from Japan in 3 days, when the part was never meant for the EU and the part went out of production for 10 years or so!

A mate of mine had a Murano he bought near-new as a ex-demo - serviced religiously, didn't tow with it or anything - despite that the CVT transmission exploded after 9 years, well out of warranty but still only had something like 120,000km on the clock and the dealer quoted him more than the car was worth by then to replace it (as well as some issues with the electrics that were more nuisance than anything), so it went to the wreckers. What a piece of shit. As an aside, I think the Murano uses the D platform, which is a bit smaller than the platform the FX is built on - but yeah, all of their lineup now is based on really badly dated platforms dressed up with extra bracing here and there - they either can't afford, or don't want to spend the money on developing new platforms.

@@khalidacosta7133 You were lucky - I'm in Ireland and for some reason things just take longer.

@@Beer_Dad1975 Never had any issues with the CVT but read about plenty of them and that was in the back of my mind when I sold it.

@@Beer_Dad1975 loved my Murano, but I was in the US where they were a bit more common. It was based on the FWD Altima platform which was compentent if a little boring, but it never missed a beat in the snowy Colorado Rockies where we lived, and I prefered it to our WRX wagon.

Actually the 5.0s tend to be very well taken care of. The 3.7s/3.5s less so but they’re still very reliable

@@apb1236 I have yet to see one of these that hasn’t been “ghetto-fied” here in Miami lol

New upside: the new Ferrari Purosangue is also front midship engined with almost the same front/rear weight distribution as your FX.