This honestly kinda tracks with my own experience. I know people who are brand loyal to GM, Ford, Dodge, and Toyota, but no one seems as dyed in the wool as the Chevy guys. They won’t even look at or consider ANYTHING else, no matter what. 

True, but from what I’ve read microtransactions work for them because of the small % of ‘whales’ who spend insane amounts on it. The same principle doesn’t apply for a car

Which is why it is surprising to me that manufactures are trying to plow ahead with it given it has already kinda failed for BMW. This feels like it might blow up in their faces like it did for EA making people pay for everything in game separately. 

I really can’t wait for this whole stupid idea of installing all the options on a car in advance and making people pay a subscription to use them to backfire on automakers. How long do we think it will take before someone comes up with a cheap, easy hack that lets you use all of them for free? 

Exactly. The people responsible for the failure will come out of this with millions of dollars stuffed in their pockets and a plum chance to go fuck up another company in a couple years

Not sure TBH. I always found them to ride fine for what they were, just very floaty. 

It’s almost as if the Pathfinder clone (QX60) having a name one letter different from the sports coupe (Q60) is confusing to consumers!

Not to mention they’ve already been quietly closing dealerships because their dealer network is too bloated for a brand that sells less vehicles than Land Rover does (not even including Jaguar). It would be a great opportunity for an upstart brand to get a brick and mortar foothold though.

Haha, sort of. The big difference is that when customers found out the car had Nissan guts they’d just lose interest and leave.

I vividly remember a co-worker dunking on the brand during a training session and the contracted trainer JOINING IN on dunking on Infiniti before getting mad about it because my co-worker was so ruthless. It was pretty funny TBH.

As someone who sold Infinitis for quite a while, we all kinda knew this car was never going to happen. Infiniti couldn’t even be bothered to update its best selling SUVs, there was no chance they were going to come out with a high performance version of the slow selling coupe.

They’re absolutely horrible to use though. One of the least ergonomic designs in the car industry right now IMO. I sold them for a few years and still couldn’t reliably use the screen and buttons properly. 

“This pay plan will actually make you more money!”

It sure does. Yes, sorry, meant millions not billions. But I’m guessing the new one will be more complicated than the LLV. 

The clusterfuck that is getting a new Gran Turismo game is a big part of why I have an Xbox and why I’ll probably get a Series X once the new Forza comes out in a year or two. GT5P is the last one I think I played, and I was so disappointed I’ve just never gone back.

Does it not seem pointless to spend hundreds of billions of dollars developing an entirely unique vehicle to just...deliver mail? Would it not make way sense to just tell Ford to import RHD cutaway Transit’s and put a big ass box on the back? I know the answer is so the US government can continue to subsidise the…

Just reading this comment made me cringe at the idea of a Snyder led MCU movie.

I haven’t signed up for an account to comment over there yet because I feel like it will be no going back once I do. But it’s feeling more and more like that is inevitable. As soon as Torch or Tracy leave I can’t really think of a reason to keep frequenting Jalopnik. 

Another reminder, this time from Nissan itself, to not buy a new Nissan.

There is a 0% chance that “tastemakers who have expressed interest” = reservations. The QX50 already sells like shit without charging $10k more for less car. This thing is going to flop so hard. This is Infiniti’s problem. It truly believes it is a real luxury brand despite everyone else knowing it isn’t. It’s not in…