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Old 04-06-04, 03:01 PM
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Default EA sports and Infiniti team up.... UGV (for the 20-30ish crowd)

Looks pretty damn good to me. Hands down the QX56 is the best looking SUV on the market.

http://www.easports.com/articles/04a/ugv.jsp


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2k2Lx470,

We've got a forum for non-Lexus model discussions called Car Chat. Moving your post there .
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Wink EASports passes on Lexus and choses Infiniti

This vehicle is really sick...EA sports hooked it up real nice.
CHECK THIS OUT.......

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Moved the post from the GS forum down here and merged it too . Please don't spam the forums with the same posts. Thanks.
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I couldn't disagree more.

The front end of the obnoxious beast is FUGLY to the extreme. And I know I'll get flamed for this but those wheels are just stupid. Why anyone puts big, heavy wheels on an already bloated SUV is beyond me. Hey, I got an idea. Let's add unsprung weight which will hurt the ride quality, increase braking distances, probably add road noice and diminish my ability to take the truck off road. Great idea. NOT.
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Default Re: EA sports and Infiniti team up.... UGV (for the 20-30ish crowd)

Originally posted by 2k2Lx470
Hands down the QX56 is the best looking SUV on the market.
To me it's the ugliest SUV on the market... That's including the new Durango
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Not my type of truck...but I love the brake upgrades to it...8-pot Brembos!
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The QX56 is built in Mississippi. No way in hell I'm paying 55k for it.
Hands down the QX56 is the best looking SUV on the market.
I find it to be uglier than Don Knotts on crack.
 
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what does mississippi have to do with it.??.. same parts and machinery in japan. It has nothing to do with location....cmon man get it together.
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That ****** looks like a damn hippo on wheels.
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Originally posted by 2k2Lx470
what does mississippi have to do with it.??.. same parts and machinery in japan. It has nothing to do with location....cmon man get it together.
You'd be surprised what it means to be made in Mississippi.

I have nothing against things made in America and totally support them, EXCEPT vehicles.

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This SUV along with the Nissan Armada as well as the new Durango bring SUV styling to a whole new low. I mean this thing is UGLY. Words cannot express my disguest for these oversized, gas guzzling, killing machines.

I couldn't disagree more.

The front end of the obnoxious beast is FUGLY to the extreme. And I know I'll get flamed for this but those wheels are just stupid. Why anyone puts big, heavy wheels on an already bloated SUV is beyond me. Hey, I got an idea. Let's add unsprung weight which will hurt the ride quality, increase braking distances, probably add road noice and diminish my ability to take the truck off road. Great idea. NOT.
Couldnt agree more with you Hapa. Why would you add huge ugly *** rims and kill you ride and braking distance and not to mention you gas mileage which is probably already at an extreme low.

Please make it all stop and boycot SUV's. With such soaring gas prices I STILL see only 1 or 2 people in a big escalade ESV or expedition with the AC on full blast. If you're going to do this dont complain about gas prices because obviously cost is no object to you. Do us all a favor and only use your SUV when the need arises
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it does matter where it is made, if it was made in japan it would cost us more, plus the styles of work are different, the additudes are different and the workers are different. The vehicles made in japan are known to last longer, and i know it isn't to do with the sheetmetal.
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Originally posted by KVA
Not my type of truck...but I love the brake upgrades to it...8-pot Brembos!

finally someone upgraded their brakes on the suv when they got bigger rims, i can't stand all of these people rollin around on 26" with stock brakes, for one it looks ugly and they should at shed some of the gained breakin distance.
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Given, it does look better, but when I first saw the QX56 on this forum, I honestly thought someone photoshopped it as some sick cruel joke. It doesn't know if it wants to be curved or square. Oh, and about being made in America, MB started making the ML in I believe Alabama and that has proved to be their true major flaw that has knocked them down so far in reliability. I don't know WHY its like this, but I can tell you that every Lexus has at very most 5% Canada/US parts and they are doing very well reliability wise. Hopefully the QX56 won't knock Infiniti out of first place in the reliability race...

EDIT: Now that I've looked at the pics in the article, I gotta say that that is one hell of a gaming vehicle. To bad it has to be in such and UGlyVehicle

EDIT AGAIN: (I swear I'm retarded), but I see it's done by Innovative Audio near both me and you 2k2Lx470. Do you work there or something? They do AMAZING work.

James

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