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There’s a new compact crossover in the pipeline, and its name is the 2016 Infiniti QX30. The jacked-up brother of the soon-to-debut 2016 Infiniti Q30, our carparazzi spied two pre-production prototypes of the long-awaited QX30.
As you can see from the attached spy photo gallery, the ride height of the 2016 Infiniti QX30 isn’t recommended if you’re planning on going off-road with it. There’s a good explanation for that: Mercedes-Benz GLA underpinnings.
That’s right, boys and girls, the Infiniti QX30 employs lots of Mercedes-Benz Modular Front Architecture (MFA) bits and bobs, lifted from the crossover brother of the W176 A-Class. As such, don’t expect more than 5.3 inches (135 millimeters) of ground clearance.
On the styling front, there’s not much to differentiate these QX30 pre-production prototypes from the Q30 test mule. If our hunch is right, expect black plastic cladding applied on the wheel arches, the jacked-up suspension, and a minor redesign for the headlights, bumpers and lower grille. Near the end of the adjacent batch of spy photographs, you can see test engineers open the big boot of the Infiniti QX30.
From the looks of it, the storage capacity can be defined as “cavernous.” Look forward to over 400 liters (14.1 cuFT) of cargo volume. Analyzing the design of the LED-licious headlights and taillights, it’s easy to understand that we won’t get the gloriously wild styling of the Infiniti QX30 Concept on the production car.
The production-ready 2016 Infiniti QX30 shapes up to be a rather interesting addition to the compact crossover genre. Infiniti recently declared that the company will start to build the Q30 “later this year.” Production of the QX30 is slated to follow soon after that, with both models to be made at the Nissan Sunderland plant in the UK.
That’s right, boys and girls, the Infiniti QX30 employs lots of Mercedes-Benz Modular Front Architecture (MFA) bits and bobs, lifted from the crossover brother of the W176 A-Class. As such, don’t expect more than 5.3 inches (135 millimeters) of ground clearance.
On the styling front, there’s not much to differentiate these QX30 pre-production prototypes from the Q30 test mule. If our hunch is right, expect black plastic cladding applied on the wheel arches, the jacked-up suspension, and a minor redesign for the headlights, bumpers and lower grille. Near the end of the adjacent batch of spy photographs, you can see test engineers open the big boot of the Infiniti QX30.
From the looks of it, the storage capacity can be defined as “cavernous.” Look forward to over 400 liters (14.1 cuFT) of cargo volume. Analyzing the design of the LED-licious headlights and taillights, it’s easy to understand that we won’t get the gloriously wild styling of the Infiniti QX30 Concept on the production car.
The production-ready 2016 Infiniti QX30 shapes up to be a rather interesting addition to the compact crossover genre. Infiniti recently declared that the company will start to build the Q30 “later this year.” Production of the QX30 is slated to follow soon after that, with both models to be made at the Nissan Sunderland plant in the UK.
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