2009 Infiniti FX50S - Long-Term Road Test Wrap-Up - Car and Driver
Months in Fleet: 15 months. Average Range: 405 miles. Service: $952. Normal Wear: $0. Damage and Destruction: $1946. Frank Lloyd Wright was a unique architect, yes, but he was also a popular one. If Frank were around today and designing crossover SUVs instead of edifices, he might have come up with something like our Infiniti FX. Its design being more Guggenheim Museum than Taliesin, the FX would most certainly have come at the end of... When our long-term Infiniti FX50S arrived, we were enamored of its looks and proud of ourselves for choosing pearl-white paint. Even toward the end of its 40,000-mile tenure, the FX continued to attract stares from admiring—and perplexed—motorists. But like a Frank Lloyd Wright creation, the FX had its peculiarities. We can’t knock the FX50S for its performance. Our end-of-test numbers match almost identically those gathered when the FX was fresh. The 0-to-60-mph time held the line at a respectable 5. 1 seconds. Acceleration past 60 mph improved by 0. 1 second to 100 and 0. 2 second to 130—this in spite of our feeling that the seven-speed. Source: www.caranddriver.com
