It looks like the new 2011 QX is ready.

Being built in Japan, based on the soon-to-be-announced 7th Gen JDM Nissan Safari.

Also known as the Nissan Patrol to the rest of the world, a competitor to the Toyota Land Cruiser.

Modified by DrewSXR at 4:47 AM 9-10-2009

lol

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I'd shuffle the letters so they spell BACONRAGE

Fixed. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beer glass holder, or something like that.

VW EV, plug-in Hybrid, and/or 1.4-2.0 VVT&VVL T/dual-charged FSI engines for the US would be useful...

This new one already looks 10x better than the current QX. I'm glad they got rid of the stupid stepped roof. How the front looks will be a major deciding factor. Hopefully, the quality will be improved 10x as well since production will be moved to Japan.

Competing with this?

Modified by Senneca01 at 2:09 AM 9-10-2009

Forget the QX, I want a Q.

That is all.

Which is what it is.

I'll defend a challenging design that's implemented with conviction and which is intended to make a statement, like the current FX. I ****ing hate challenging design that's kludged together cheaply and lazily, like the Aztek and this.

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Good god, I do have a wang and I just couldn't trade it in for a Prius.

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I'd like to see a Nissan version in NA sold as the Patrol.

I would like to see that too, but I have not heard of any news of it coming over, except for the QX version. The Titan and Armada will probably stick to the same platforms.

Given the ugliness of the new Acura-thing, this will look better in comparison..

Does it chirp 3rd?

Maybe it floats? Or something...

Really?

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I'm glad they got rid of the stupid stepped roof. How the front looks will be a major deciding factor. Hopefully, the quality will be improved 10x as well since production will be moved to Japan.

Okay, now you are just being hilarious!

Terrible.

Okay, maybe I went a bit too far, but the current one just looks silly. I hate the roof-line and rear door handles. I know quality has improved, but at first it was horrid. The front reminds me of Frankenstein.

On a positive note, I really like the blacked out A Pillar.

Well to be fair in markets outside the US where the Patrol and Landcruisers are offered they have been offered in 4 and 6 cylinder diesels respectively, challenging that gas-guzzling image. I'm glad infiniti ia basing the QX on the Patrol, these things have never been about the looks and more about the capabilities. I like it.

Yeah, two blurry exterior photos with no technical information about the vehicle makes that obvious.

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Tso's shell is mmm, so hell schism.

Based on looks alone the Escalade has this ugly thing beat hands down.

Like I said, somehow the current mess posted several months with 1200+ sales even when fuel was pricey. Don't know why, but it did it as such a thinly-veiled rebadge that even 90's GM would blush and with probably the worst $50k+ interior on the market. No reason to think a unique (for the USA,) much better-looking inside and out, and probably much more powerful AND fuel efficient vehicle couldn't catch up to Escalade numbers.

But of course if you meant competition in a figurative sense and not sales then I would agree

That said I think it looks better than BOTH in those two pics and I actually like how it looks outside of the tacky fender vent and the GT-R windshield.

To me its aggressive up front, the fit and finish seems great, the arches are not overdone, the windowline looks great.

So I like it

Im with Senneca, the current QX56 is one of the absolute worst vehicles I have ever driven at any price. This new one literally looks 10x better and surely will be 10x better built.