Pretty much this. If the Japanese were still at the helm, instead of the French, Infiniti (and Nissan) would probably offer much more compelling products.

tl;dr Infiniti decided to trade places with Kia

You nailed it, was going to post about their tech. We’re shopping for a new car for my wife, she likes the QX50's looks; then we saw how old everything looked in comparison to Lexus, Mazda etc. They don’t even offer CarPlay if I’m not mistaken when that’s essentially standard on Toyotas, KIAs etc. Also seemed…

I used to sell Infinitis for a short period of time and I completely understand why this is happening. Infiniti has 4 major issues:

I have to admit, this is the first time I hear about Infiniti pulling out of Europe, they’ve never been too successful but I regularly see them on the road here in the UK at least, albeit in crappy diesel form. I’m still holding out for a first gen Q45 that somehow made its way over here...

Rectum?  Damn near killed ‘um!

Are you fucking kidding me?

64 yr old was British, that was his hard Brexit.

And Pyromania is just a good album, full stop.

Musically they never recovered from Rick Allen’s accident and the resulting delay in -and overproduction of - Hysteria.

A Pyromania-specific shoutout at last. I don’t think of “Foolin’” or “Rock of Ages” in even the same thought-session as “Pour Some Sugar on Me,” which I hated from day one. And they just got worse.

A few albums that were better before the machine got involved:

Crüe were objectively shitty, there’s no question, but goddamn Dr Feelgood is a great rhythm section groove that I will unapologetically stump for until the end of my days. 

Oh, I work; I teach, but as a professor, I have an awful lot of office hour time.

Most students don’t use it until toward the end of the semester, when they collectively realize that they’re getting a grade—so if I’m not grading, attending committee meetings, or reading, I’m probably killing time here.

...and the whole,…

Say what you want about this shit heel, but his Michael Jackson cosplay is on point.

Thoughts and prayers aren’t going to do anything to fix this problem. You are missing the point, you dolt.

The refs reviewed the Brady comment and it was deemed inconclusive. The comment stands as unbleeped.

I usually say that if a bad call beats you, it is your own fault for letting it be that close. But this was absolutely brutal. Like Armando Gallaraga perfect game brutal. If they are going to miss something like that, then watching a game is almost pointless and you can just watch a random number generator do its…

¡Si Señor! ¡Si Señor! ¡Si Señor! ¡Si Señor!

Please. You’re going to need a lot more “No Senor’s” than that if you’re ever going to compete with me on Latino speed-dating night.