2013 Infiniti EX, FX get 3.7L V6, G25 discontinued
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I guess they just didn't know how to sell it. G37 is already a great value machine so what does that make G25? They couldn't figure it out obviously.
On a side note their 2.5 is a bit outdated kind of like Lexus unit so bringing it to the market this late maybe had something to do with it. Hopefully next gen will be turbo four.
On a side note their 2.5 is a bit outdated kind of like Lexus unit so bringing it to the market this late maybe had something to do with it. Hopefully next gen will be turbo four.
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I still say, as I did back when the G25 came out, that they should have made it a G30 instead. I miss the old VQ30DE I had in my Maxima. Sweet engine. Give it a good 240hp/220-230tq and it would have been a fine performer with beefy enough torque to pull some nice overdrive gears and probably get better mileage than the G25 did, which wasn't that impressive. And it would perform decently, too. Better than the IS250 and A4, and on par with or better than the C300 and 328i. And yeah, they probably did screw up the options availability mix too by not making navigation available in the G25. That was dumb.
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I still say, as I did back when the G25 came out, that they should have made it a G30 instead. I miss the old VQ30DE I had in my Maxima. Sweet engine. Give it a good 240hp/220-230tq and it would have been a fine performer with beefy enough torque to pull some nice overdrive gears and probably get better mileage than the G25 did, which wasn't that impressive. And it would perform decently, too. Better than the IS250 and A4, and on par with or better than the C300 and 328i. And yeah, they probably did screw up the options availability mix too by not making navigation available in the G25. That was dumb.
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The turbo if moddable can maybe compete with the FI cars from Germany.. Though ironically it might be another German engine but in a Japaneae car. Purists will scoff but surely many will be happy to hopefully modify and increase the boost in the G30t.
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I find it hard to believe the VQ is dead coz it's so influential & solid.
VQ engine series is really solid. Ward's top 10 engine award list for like more than a decade. I'd choose VQ series over say QR or SR series engines (btw I don't mean offense to those who have Silvia's and 180SX and whatnot.)
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I agree, they should have went with a 3 liter but if a 2.5 with a little over 200hp only gets 2-3mpg better then the 3.7 then a 3.0 is not going to be any real improvement in efficiency either, it will just be quicker and more enjoyable which is not what they were shooting for.
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