2009 Infiniti FX50S - Road Test - Car and Driver
If you want a sports car, well, why not start with a car instead of a truck. In the meantime, the 2009 Infiniti FX50 is here to make its case as one of the sportiest of sport-utility vehicles. The FX line first entered the world as a concept car in 2001, with a design brief from Infiniti that described it as a “Bionic Cheetah. At first glance the new FX looks a lot like its predecessor, but upon closer inspection the first-generation version comes across as positively staid compared with the new car. Granted, the vents behind the front wheels are downright tacky, but Infiniti claims they’re functional, reducing front-end lift by five percent. The unibody is still a derivative of Nissan’s FM (front midship) platform—the same one that underpins the 350Z and every Infiniti except the QX56 land yacht—with structural improvements that yield claimed increases of 60 percent in torsional... At 4648 pounds, the new FX is about 150 pounds heavier, an increase mitigated by the use of aluminum for the doors and the suspension components. Source: www.caranddriver.com
