Infiniti Is Reportedly Making A New Q50 Sedan, And This Time, It'll Offer A Manual Transmission

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It's been a agelong clip since enthusiasts earnestly thought astir the Infiniti Q50, and not conscionable because it yet sewage canceled past year. The 400-horsepower Red Sport was quick, but it conscionable didn't rather person what it took to really spell toe-to-toe pinch competitors specified arsenic the BMW 3 Series. But judge it aliases not, that whitethorn change, astatine slightest successful a fewer years. Apparently, Infiniti plans to bring nan Q50 backmost sometime successful nan 2nd half of 2027, Automotive News reports.

If you publication that and assumed nan caller Q50 would beryllium electric, that would beryllium understandable. We're talking astir a car that will apt beryllium a 2028 model, aft all, and nan early is electric, moreover if a bunch of Republicans bought disconnected by nan lipid and state manufacture opportunity differently. That reportedly won't beryllium nan case, though, arsenic nan revived Q50 will get nan aforesaid twin-turbocharged 3.0-liter V6 arsenic the Nissan Z and get a manual transmission option, thing nan U.S.-market Q50 didn't connection before. That's nan aforesaid motor Infiniti utilized connected its Red Sport models, but this clip around, it whitethorn beryllium tuned to dress up to 450 hp.

The caller Q50 will besides reportedly beryllium twinned pinch nan Skyline sedan, conscionable for illustration nan aged Q50. The existent Skyline is much than a decade aged astatine this point, but don't worry, it doesn't sound for illustration Infiniti has plans to revive a car that first went connected waste successful 2014 as-is. There's a caller Skyline coming, too, and nan caller Q50 should beryllium based connected that one, though it wouldn't beryllium terribly astonishing if some nan caller Skyline and Q50 ended up riding connected a heavy revised type of nan existing chassis. This is Nissan we're talking about, aft all.

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The marque reportedly showed disconnected a preview of nan caller athletics sedan astatine nan nationalist trader gathering successful Las Vegas connected Wednesday, truthful it's imaginable much accusation will leak arsenic clip goes on, but for now, astatine least, we're going to take to beryllium excited. As 1 unnamed root told Automotive News, "The caller Q50 is simply a visceral car pinch a twin-turbo that screams. It's not practical, but it is fun." Hopefully they're right, and we'll soon person a caller rear-wheel-drive, manual athletics sedan to play pinch soon.

Infiniti Americas Vice President Tiago Castro besides described nan caller Q50 as "unapologetic and unexpected," telling Automotive News, "It's an opportunity to link backmost to nan roots of nan brand." Specifically, it seems Infiniti wants to spell aft nan (mostly) men successful their 50s who first became willing successful nan marque erstwhile it introduced nan G35 backmost successful nan early 2000s. It will besides subordinate the upcoming QX65 and QX80 SUVs that Infiniti hopes will yet get group willing successful its marque again. 

"We conscionable haven't had nan product," Vinay Shahani, Nissan's U.S. caput of income and marketing, told Automotive News. "And now we're coming to nan array pinch nan product."

While immoderate dealers are reportedly crossing their fingers that Infiniti will besides connection an all-wheel-drive version, Edmunds' head of insights Ivan Drury told Automotive News he believes nan attraction connected rear-wheel-drive nosy is simply a measurement successful nan correct direction, saying, "With less than a fistful of luxury brands offering a instrumentality shift, nan Q50 is simply a must-consider for those pinch fond memories of stirring their gears." Personally, I'm not judge "stirring their gears" is simply a building I would person used, but I do work together pinch nan sentiment. After all, manual sports sedans are conscionable much nosy than their automatic counterparts.