Motor Trend Review of Q50! Good Read
07-31-2013, 03:48 PM
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"The Q50 performed the 0-60-mph sprint in 5.2 seconds and kept running through the quarter mile in 13.8 seconds at 102.1 mph. That stacks up favorably with the Cadillac ATS V-6, which makes the 60-mph sprint in 5.5 seconds and the quarter in 14.0 at 101.9 mph. Things look promising until we throw in the BMW and Audi, which cover 0-60 mph in 4.7 and 4.4 seconds, respectively. In the quarter, we have 13.3 at 103.9 mph for the BMW and 13.0 at 105.6 mph for the Audi."
Read more: 2014 Infiniti Q50S First Test - Motor Trend
Still slow like molasses
Read more: 2014 Infiniti Q50S First Test - Motor Trend
Still slow like molasses
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08-01-2013, 03:18 PM
#8
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This is a great article and it was nicely written up.
There are a couple of sticking points for me and this vehicle. The first is the price tag, this car simply costs as much as the competition, I bought my G37S because it was a great value. This Q50 nearly mirriors the price of a BMW 335i. Where did the value go (or does that mean there is +$7,000 or more of wiggle room in price negotiation.) Also, I don't like to read that our car is slow performer that simply doesn't sit well, regardless of what percentage of a second it really is. While, I dislike the option of not having the ability to purchase another Manual transmission vehicle, the big sticking point is this: "The Q50 uses the Direct Adaptive Steering to make corrections. It's amazing and frustrating all at once. This car is 90 percent autonomous, but that last 10 percent, which is likely gripped tightly by legal wranglers, kills it. The car seems to have a particular radius of turn it will manuever around, at some, not always repeatable point, it protests and you have to intervene. That is exactly how it feels, you are intervening in the car driving and not the other way around." I don't want a car that can drive itself, and I don't want to fight over the controls with the car. I don't want the car to set a settings and protocol that automatically occurs. Maybe this car is being technically designed for the REALLY
"old folk community" that live in Florida and can't see over the steering wheel. This would certainly reach out to that market of drivers that are simply "bad drivers". But, I want nothing to do with that technology, and if that is direction we're heading I'll buy older cars that let Drivers drive. 
There are a couple of sticking points for me and this vehicle. The first is the price tag, this car simply costs as much as the competition, I bought my G37S because it was a great value. This Q50 nearly mirriors the price of a BMW 335i. Where did the value go (or does that mean there is +$7,000 or more of wiggle room in price negotiation.) Also, I don't like to read that our car is slow performer that simply doesn't sit well, regardless of what percentage of a second it really is. While, I dislike the option of not having the ability to purchase another Manual transmission vehicle, the big sticking point is this: "The Q50 uses the Direct Adaptive Steering to make corrections. It's amazing and frustrating all at once. This car is 90 percent autonomous, but that last 10 percent, which is likely gripped tightly by legal wranglers, kills it. The car seems to have a particular radius of turn it will manuever around, at some, not always repeatable point, it protests and you have to intervene. That is exactly how it feels, you are intervening in the car driving and not the other way around." I don't want a car that can drive itself, and I don't want to fight over the controls with the car. I don't want the car to set a settings and protocol that automatically occurs. Maybe this car is being technically designed for the REALLY
"old folk community" that live in Florida and can't see over the steering wheel. This would certainly reach out to that market of drivers that are simply "bad drivers". But, I want nothing to do with that technology, and if that is direction we're heading I'll buy older cars that let Drivers drive.
