Infiniti QX56

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Infiniti QX56

The Infiniti QX56 is a full-size sport utility vehicle

Sport utility vehicle

A sport utility vehicle is a generic marketing description for a vehicle similar to a station wagon but built on a light-truck chassis. Usually equipped with four-wheel drive for on or off-road ability, some SUVs include the towing capacity of a pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of a minivan....
(SUV) sold under the Nissan-owned Infiniti

Infiniti

Infiniti is the Luxury vehicle division of Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. Infiniti sales officially started in November 8, 1989 in North America and its global operations have since grown to include Mexico, the Middle East, South Korea, Taiwan, Russia, Switzerland, China and Ukraine....
luxury brand

Luxury vehicles

Luxury vehicle is a marketing for a vehicle that provides luxury—that which is beyond strict necessity—in exchange for increased cost to the buyer....
. It is based on the Nissan Armada

Nissan Armada

The Nissan Armada is Nissan's full-size sport utility vehicle. It shares its body-on-frame Nissan F-Alpha platform automobile platform with the Nissan Titan pickup truck, Nissan Xterra SUV, Nissan Frontier pickup truck, and Nissan Pathfinder SUV....
full-size SUV, and shares the F-Alpha

Nissan F-Alpha platform

The F-Alpha is an automobile platform from Nissan Motor Company which is used in their trucks and SUV's. The latest version of the platform is the basis for the Nissan Frontier and Nissan Titan pickup trucks as well as the Nissan XTerra, Nissan Pathfinder, Nissan Armada and Infiniti QX56 SUVs....
platform with the Nissan Titan

Nissan Titan

The Nissan Titan introduced in 2004, is a full-size pickup truck produced for the North American market by Nissan Motors. The truck shares the stretched Nissan F-Alpha platform with the Nissan Armada and Infiniti QX56 SUVs, and is manufactured in Canton, Mississippi, United States....
pickup truck

Pickup truck

A pickup truck is a light motor vehicle with an open-top rear cargo area which is almost always separated from the cab to allow for chassis flex when carrying or pulling heavy loads....
.

The truck is propelled by a 5.6 L

Litér

Lit?r is a village in Veszpr?m , Hungary.External links ...
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Nissan VK engine

The VK engine is a V8 piston engine from Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.. It is an aluminum DOHC 4-valve design with variable valve timing. The timing of the intake valves is continuously fine-tuned to ensure air enters the cylinder at exactly the right moment for optimum combustion....
V8 engine

V8 engine

A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinder s mounted on the crankcase in two banks of four cylinders, in most cases set at a right angle to each other but sometimes at a narrower angle, with all eight pistons driving a common crankshaft....
(315 hp

Horsepower

Horsepower is the name of several non-International System of Units units of power . It was originally defined to allow the output of steam engines to be measured and compared with the power output of draft horses....
[227 kW

WATT

WATT is a radio station broadcasting a News radio-Talk radio-Sports radio format. Licensed to Cadillac, Michigan, it first began broadcasting in 1945....
] @ 4,900 rpm and torque

Torque

Torque is the tendency of a force to rotate an object about an axis . Just as a force is a push or a pull, a torque can be thought of as a twist....
@ 3,600 rpm) and a 5-speed automatic transmission

Automatic transmission

An automatic transmission is an automobile gearbox that can change gear ratios automatically as the vehicle moves, freeing the driver from having to shift gears manual transmission....
with an overdrive. Each cylinder in the engine

Internal combustion engine

The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs in a combustion chamber inside and integral to the engine. In an internal combustion engine it is always the expansion of the high temperature and pressure gases that are produced by the combustion which apply force to the movable component of the engine, such as...
is lined with cast iron. The valvetrain

Valvetrain

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The Infiniti QX56 is a full-size sport utility vehicle

Sport utility vehicle

Infiniti

Luxury vehicles

Luxury vehicle is a marketing for a vehicle that provides luxury—that which is beyond strict necessity—in exchange for increased cost to the buyer....
. It is based on the Nissan Armada

Nissan Armada

Nissan F-Alpha platform

Nissan Titan

Pickup truck

Litér

V8 engine

Horsepower

WATT

WATT is a radio station broadcasting a News radio-Talk radio-Sports radio format. Licensed to Cadillac, Michigan, it first began broadcasting in 1945....
] @ 4,900 rpm and torque

Torque

Automatic transmission

Internal combustion engine

Valvetrain

A traditional reciprocating internal combustion engine uses valves to control air and fuel flow into and out of the cylinders, facilitating combustion....
is a DOHC design with four valves per cylinder. Infiniti designed the QX56's throttle responsiveness to correspond to specific drivetrain modes: when the driver selects all-wheel drive, the throttle becomes less sensitive, presumably to allow easier regulation of acceleration when off-road.

The Infiniti QX56 has around 9,000 lb

Pound (mass)

The pound or pound-mass is a Units of measurement of massused in the Imperial unit, United States customary units and other systems of measurement....
(4082 kg) of towing capacity. Mileage at peak performance drain is . It comes in one trim level, with only key options such as: DVD

DVD

DVD, also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc,"is a popular optical disc data storage device media format. Its main uses are video and data storage....
entertainment system, 4WD/2WD, and a bench instead of captain chairs as the second row. Other features which come standard are a ten-speaker Bose system, DVD-based navigation system, leather trim for all seats, dual-climate control, 18-inch chrome alloy wheels, and an adaptive cruise control system. A precrash system

Precrash system

A precrash system is a passive automobile safety system designed to reduce the damage caused by a collision. Most use radar sensors to detect a credible crash; though, different systems react in different ways....
is a novelty in the market as well.

As with the Nissan Armada, it is built in Canton, Mississippi

Canton, Mississippi

Canton is a city in Madison County, Mississippi, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,911 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Madison County, Mississippi, and situated in the northern part of the Jackson metropolitan area surrounding the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi....
; and is currently only available in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, Canada

Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, Russia

Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
,Bahrain

Bahrain

The Kingdom of Bahrain, in , , literally Kingdom of the Two Seas).Bahrain is an Arabic island country in the Persian Gulf ruled by the Al Khalifa regime....
,UAE, and Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, KSA , is an Arab country and the largest country of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Jordan on the northwest, Iraq on the north and northeast, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates on the east, Oman on the southeast, and Yemen on the south....
. It is also the first Infiniti built in the United States. Since priced lower than the Lexus LX, the QX56 has become a success for Infiniti, outselling the Lexus LX.

Since the demise of the Q45

Infiniti Q45

The Infiniti Q45 is a full-size luxury car that served as the flagship of Nissan's Infiniti marque from 1990 until 2006, when the Q45 was no longer exported....
(which was priced above the QX56) after 2006, the QX56 is the most expensive Infiniti in North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, and is Infiniti's only full-size vehicle. For 2008, the Infiniti QX56 received a minor facelift which included more standard equipment and standard 20-inch chrome wheels.

As with the Armada, the QX56 was very unreliable in Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports is an United States magazine published monthly by Consumers Union. It publishes reviews and comparisons of consumer products and services based on reporting and results from its in-house testing laboratory....
' surveys mainly due to problems with the brakes. However, the 2008 model had all the brake problems solved, and the QX56 now has an average rating in CR's surveys. For 2009 the QX56 received auto locking doors and deep garnet metallic was added as a new color. The 2009 model is the last year for the QX56's first generation.