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In a bit of Motor Trend irony, our fleet overlords have decided to trust me with what can be considered a luxury sports car in the form of a 2018 Infiniti Q60 3.0t Sport coupe. In previous updates and verdicts, I've professed, somewhat piously, to not having a primal need for speed. But am I...

The 2018 Infiniti Q50 Red Sport 400 is a heavy car at 3,744 pounds, but not nearly as pendulous as that name. And while the Japanese have a glorious history of grandiose car names-see the domestic market Toyota Crown Majesta 10th Anniversary Type C or Isuzu Statesman de Ville-the string of words...

Are expectations even worth pondering? It's almost like trying to predict the future. However, when expectations are surpassed it's always a pleasant surprise. Flying to Nashville, Tenn., for the 2018 Infiniti Q50 drive, I was thinking about the hotel I would stay in and how the sedan would...

When we first drove the Q50 Red Sport 400, Infiniti had the car out at a prepared slalom-and-cone course in a large, open parking lot. The car was stacked up against another Q50 without the Direct Adaptive Steer steer-by-wire system, and the course was designed to show that the DAS-equipped Red...

More often than not, personal context has a huge effect on initial impressions of a car. Take the Red Sport 400. The previous car I drove before jumping inside the headline draw of Infiniti's Q50 range was a Lamborghini Hurac?n. Which, by rights, should make the Japanese sports saloon seem about...

Remember when Infiniti was a performance brand? Yeah, it has been a while since then, but Infiniti appears to be getting some of its mojo back. The new, athletic-looking 2017 Q60 coupe is leading the charge, but is it the second coming of the beloved original G35 coupe? Yes and no. One reason...

Romeo, oh Romeo, pray tell us why two-door luxury sports coupes, like the swoopy, curvaceous 2017 Infiniti Q60 I?m driving, make our hearts soar, our hands go clammy and our heads fill with the overpowering urge to sign on the dotted line? After all, coupes make no rational sense. They have two...

In the months leading up to its debut in 1989, Infiniti launched a major ad campaign using images of calm seas, serene skies, and open roads - just about anything but cars. In the nearly three decades since, Nissan's luxury brand has always been in the scrum, but it has rarely had the visibility...