Well, the Great Lockdown of 2020 and Social-Distancing apparently has not completely dried up new-vehicle-sales. A couple who lives a few doors down from me just traded their old white Infiniti QX50 for a brand-new jet-black one. (Apparantly they are satisfied repeat-customers). With the way it is parked in their space, partially-blocked by vehicles on either side of it (which don't go out much these days), and blocked by a large fence/wall behind it, I couldn't get a decent enough cell-phone-camera shot of it without compromising their license number and privacy, so I'll just post a couple of image look-alikes.

I also knew the wife as the manager of a local Pizza shop I sometimes stopped at before she quit working to have her baby....who is now maybe a year or so old.






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Sounds like they had a first gen. RWD based, nice. So it was a QX50 14-18? or EX35/37 2007-2013 before the name change to QX50

 

Either that, or they simply had a two-year-lease on the former one. Leasing is becoming quite common in my area, particularly at upscale/premium-level dealerships. With social-distancing and most people living inside like cocoons, I haven't had much of a chance to ask them.

 

I actually really like the QX80. Those things are pretty cheap used and they are really good for road trips. That 5.6L V8 is a good torquey beast

 

DRINKS gas though.

 

Gotta pay to play

 

Yep.....with conventional powerplants, it's difficult to design and build a vehicle of that size and weight that will sip gas like an econocar. The QX80, like its less-expensive Armada cousin, is essentially a luxury/people-carrying spinoff of the Nissan Titan body-on-frame, full-size-pick-up platform.