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Please follow the instructions below to enable JavaScript in your browser. By choosing this color:. The term crossover vehicle covers a lot of ground these days, and the Infiniti FX35 shows how far that idiom is being pushed.
Typical crossovers are vehicles such as the Toyota RAV4 or Honda Pilot-they're based on car platforms and lack the low-range transfer cases and robust Paris-Dakar durability of truck-based SUVs, but they wear truckish, blocky sheetmetal.
You sure can't say that about this Infiniti FX Yes, at And at It looks brawny as well, but in the bulging, muscular fashion of a Dodge Viper rather than the square-shouldered idiom of a Caterpillar tractor.
Moreover, its greenhouse is tidy, rakish, and sleek, and this particular FX35 didn't even have four-wheel drive. Instead, it funneled every bit of its horsepower to its rear tires. Like its bigger brother, the FX45, which is the quickest non-turbocharged SUV we've ever tested, the FX35 is geared purely for grappling with the pavement. Equipped with Nissan's ubiquitous 3. We measured the sprint to 60 in 7. Top speed was an ungoverned mph, enough to see off most expensive German sedans with their mph governors.
Some of this fleetness comes from the FX35's pound curb weight, which is down nearly pounds from the FX45's with its V-8 and four-wheel-drive system. With a manual-override-equipped five-speed automatic, the FX35 is a swift and responsive tool for the cut and thrust of urban traffic. Although your line of sight is about half a foot less elevated than in most mid-size SUVs, the driver still sits high enough to see over the roofs of most sedans during the bumper-to-bumper grind.
And the FX's taut chassis facilitates the rapid lane changes and instant acceleration needed to progress through the rush-hour pack. In fact, we're surprised at how closely the performance of the FX35's chassis mimics the 45's, despite less rubber. Although peak grip is down 0.
So does the larger FX's hard ride.
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