Infiniti is facing an uphill sales challenge these days in the U.S. with deliveries far off their all-time highs.
But, a massive redo of the company's large, three-row SUV, the 2025 Infiniti QX80, could be the right model at the right time. The large Infiniti QX80 arrived in the early 2000s as the three-row QX56, the as luxury brand owned by Nissan's first vehicle built in the United States. That first generation was only sold in the U.
S. and Canada, and in the Middle East and Russia. The first QX was square-bodied and looked much like the Nissan Armada SUV it was based on.
For the second-generation Infiniti rounded off all the edges and then in 2014 the whole Infiniti line went to the Q naming structure. The newly-named QX80 got another facelift in 2018, debuting at the . The third generation of the made its first appearance earlier this year, sporting a new exterior look, interior design and engine, though it has a similar trim structure, starting with Pure ($82,450), going up through Luxe, Sensory and the top of the line Autograph (tested here) at $110,595.
Everything is new including the design that looks like a hybrid between the recent rounded model and the early square body. The QX80's rectangular shape has a new nose, a take on the company's double arch grille. The front end is even more upright than the previous model, almost shoulder height, while the monolithic sides are big enough to block out two regular-sized vehicles stacked on top of each other.
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