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In a company, if the product you are working on has very limited application usages, and there is also very few customer buying it, then you know sooner or later the product will be discontinued. Well, this is exactly the case for the Infiniti’s V8 QX70.

The 5.0L V8 (engine code: VK50VE) used on the QX70, is the only 5.0L V8 engine in Nissan, and it is also only used on QX70. What makes situation worse is: almost no people are buying it in the recent years. So Infiniti has made its decision that simply does not offer this engine in the 2015 model year QX70.

This leaves the 3.7L V6 engine to be the single choice for the QX70 product line...

The biggest news for the 2015 Q70 (the new name for the previous Infiniti M) is the long wheelbase version will be available to the US market.

Strictly speaking the long wheelbase Q70 is not a new creation – the China market already received it two years ago.

The long wheelbase Q70 has 5.9 inches longer of wheel base than the standard model. This is not a typical move for the brand in the US market. We can see that long wheelbase version of cars in Chinese market usually do not come to US, for example the BMW 3 series L, Audi A4L, A6L, Mercedes C class L, E class L etc. (in China, even the Toyota Yaris has a long wheelbase version)

So why Infiniti brings the Q70L across...

When we are talking about a recall of a specific car model, in our impression it is usually something like: you receive a notice in the mail, then you bring your car to the dealership; you get a loaner car while they are working on your vehicle, after several hours or several days you get your fixed car back.

Some recalls may be very complicated, for example recently Porsche is recalling 785 of its 2014 911 GT3 to replace the whole engine. But have you thought of a recall that you will DIY, and you can even complete it within 1 minute? Now this is what 468 of the Infiniti QX80 owners will face with.

According to Nissan USA, some of the 2014 model year Infiniti QX80 equipp...

The NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) and Nissan issued a recall which affects 989,701 cars in US and around another 60,000 units in Canada market. Affected models include the 2013 and 2014 Altima, Sentra, Pathfinder, Leaf; 2013 NV200, and also Infiniti JX35, Q50 and QX60.

The defect root cause lies in the software that monitors the vehicle’s airbag system...