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Re: Ditching my 03 Lexus LX470 for a QX56 - ? GOOD MOVE? [benbo] by obyone
Mar 30, 2008 (1:36 pm)
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Replying to: benbo (Mar 30, 2008 11:37 am)

When you state tiresome do you mean 2+ hours of negotiations?
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Re: Ditching my 03 Lexus LX470 for a QX56 - ? GOOD MOVE? [obyone] by keg97
Mar 30, 2008 (3:32 pm)
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Replying to: obyone (Mar 30, 2008 1:36 pm)

Read back b.c his negotiation story is great. He may even loan out his kids to help facilitate the process for ya....a great story!!!
 
On the flip side, my negotiations were great...got the dealer to move 5K in 20 minutes. I was very happy with my dealer from test-driving to delivery.
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2010 QX going to Japan? by founder
Apr 10, 2008 (1:14 am)
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Haven't heard that, but it is more then likly true. I read that Nissan is going to separate the platforms so that the QX will be totally different from the Armada. I think it may be true about the QX heading to Japan, but you never know. I must say that this truck while good ofr the value is a mixed bag in the looks dept. Sometime i see them on the street and they look nice and other times I go ughhh.
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Re: 2010 QX going to Japan? [founder] by keg97
Apr 10, 2008 (6:28 am)
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Replying to: founder (Apr 10, 2008 1:14 am)

Nissan has already said that production of the QX will be moving to Japan, likely based upon the Patrol platform.
 
As for the looks, I'm there with you...and I own one! I LOVE the look of the Escalade in white...classy but with an attitude. My wife (a rather good judge of looks...except in the husband dept! ) still says that she really think that the QX looks nearly as classy and nice as the Escalade. There are days when I love the QX look and others when I'm not so into it.
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Re: 2010 QX going to Japan? [founder] by obyone
Apr 10, 2008 (7:54 am)
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Replying to: founder (Apr 10, 2008 1:14 am)

"Sometime i see them on the street and they look nice and other times I go ughhh"
 
That could be especially if you looked at the driver first and not the SUV
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QX56 by mlevine
Apr 13, 2008 (1:37 pm)
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Took our first long drive with the QX this past week. Traveled about 2-2.5 hour trip across the state mostly highway. Wife drove, threw out my back right before this vacation. One of the most enjoyable trips in a SUV. We have black exterior and of course the dirt was quite noticeable. Immediately had the car washed upon return, back not healed had to go to car wash. At times wished we had chosen another color, but black is my wife's choice.
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Re: QX56 [mlevine] by obyone
Apr 13, 2008 (3:01 pm)
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Replying to: mlevine (Apr 13, 2008 1:37 pm)

Black through a car was will leave a ton of micro scratches. After awhile you will notice a bunch of scratches when looking at it under the sun or daylight flourescent. Black is very high maintenance to keep looking new.
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2009 by stevecfo
May 02, 2008 (10:11 pm)
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Does anybody know when the 2009's are scheduled to be released?
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Re: 2010 QX going to Japan? [obyone] by shark715
May 03, 2008 (4:04 am)
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Replying to: obyone (Apr 10, 2008 7:54 am)

By James R. Healey, USA TODAY
Nissan (NSANY) says it will stop making the Quest minivan and its full-size SUV, the Infiniti QX56, at its Canton, Miss., factory and use it to make "light commercial vehicles" starting in the first quarter of 2010.
The automaker did not say when or where —or if — it will build next-generation versions of the minivan and big SUVS, which are slow sellers in declining market segments, when the plant switches to the unspecified commercial trucks.
 
"The decision has not been finalized. The intention is to continue them, but we don't know where we will manufacture them," Nissan spokeswoman Frederique Le Greves said Monday.
 
"When we get to the end of each vehicle's cycle, we look at the market" and decide the fate of each vehicle, she said.
 
Quest is an also-ran in the shrinking minivan market, with sales down about 38% the first quarter vs. a year ago, according to Autodata. Its sales rank it eighth among nine vans currently in production, behind even the nearly invisible Mazda5 mini-minivan.
 
The Infiniti QX, a luxury version of the Nissan Armada, had sales up 11%, but it sells in such small numbers that it ranks 80th of 102 SUVs currently in production.
 
Canton will continue to make the Nissan Altima sedan and Titan pickup, Nissan said, and it will invest $118 million to expand Canton to build three commercial vehicles in 2010 for the North American market. The trucks will use Cummins diesel engines specifically designed for Nissan and manufactured in the USA, Nissan said.
 
"They are not European vehicles that we already make. They will be designed, developed and manufactured in the U.S. for U.S. customers," Le Greves said.
 
Nissan would not describe them further, beyond saying they will be in the under-8-ton gross vehicle weight (GVW) category. A GVW rating is the weight of the truck plus the cargo it can carry safely. If the GVW rating is 8 tons and the truck weighs 6 tons, it safely can carry 2 tons.
 
Heavy-duty versions of conventional passenger vehicles, such as so-called 1-ton SUVs and pickups (for their cargo capability), have GVW ratings up to about 5 tons.
 
A few Detroit models go further, however. For example, the beefiest of Ford's F-Series, the F-550, are available with GVW ratings up to 9.5 tons. Such vehicles generally use dual rear wheels on each side, instead of the singles on lighter-duty models.
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Re: 2009 [stevecfo] by keg97
May 04, 2008 (4:57 pm)
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Replying to: stevecfo (May 02, 2008 10:11 pm)

Any reason to wait for the '09? I highly doubt that it will get any new features since it is supposed to be redesigned for '10 and was just refreshed for '08.

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