[ WATCH ]  Infiniti QX80 2017 Review
Channel: Auto Today
Date: 2017-01-26

[ WATCH ]  Infiniti QX80 2017 Review. The crossover/SUV market is exploding in popularity and diversity, spawning new offshoots faster than a banyan tree in a time-lapse video. But Infiniti’s QX80 resides in what seems destined to remain a short tendril: the full-size, three-row luxury SUV. Of the dozens of crossovers of all shapes and sizes (and prices), this class is one of the most sparsely populated. By our count, there are just five (and a half): the Cadillac Escalade, the QX80, the Lexus LX570, the Lincoln Navigator, and the Mercedes-Benz GLS. (Our partial credit goes to the not-quite-as-opulent GMC Yukon Denali.)

As high fashion on a grand scale, the QX80 works quite well. The Navigator and, to a lesser degree, the Escalade employ gigantism as their primary stylistic philosophy. To us, they inspire the same sort of lust as bulldozers and off-road dump trucks—not that those don’t appeal to us. The LX570 is slightly more nuanced—until you get to the robot vacuum-fish face—while the Mercedes is handsome but restrained. The QX80 manages to gracefully transpose Infiniti’s swoopy, seaweed-swaying-in-the-current design language onto an XXL canvas. At least that’s how some of us see it. Others think it’s hideous. But it definitely isn’t conservative, which gets respect even from the nauseated crowd.
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