The all-new QX80 needs to be competitive among large luxury SUVs. Is it?
Infiniti needs a hit, and no one knows this better than the company does. Nissan’s luxury division in recent times has relied on minor revisions and unconventional “innovations” to prevent its lineup from going completely stale—except forthe arrival of the 2025 Infiniti QX80
Name changes and styling alterations could never hide how the outgoing Infiniti QX80 was built on an old truck platform. Like before, the new 2025 QX80 is built using body-on-frame construction. Here, though, it’s a new frame Infiniti says has 25 percent more torsional stiffness and 57 percent more lateral stiffness, providing a foundation for dynamic refinements.
On the dashboard, dual 14.3-inch digital displays are separated by a 5-millimeter gap. The graphics and fonts are too much like those you find in Nissan vehicles than is warranted for a luxurious Infiniti, and some QX80 rivals have higher-resolution displays. Such gripes aside, each screen is responsive and rather reconfigurable.
That notion persists out on the road—yet there’s not a shred of doubt the new QX80 drives decades better than its predecessor. Don’t lament the loss of the V-8; acoustics are the only advantage it holds over the V-6. It feels like a turbocharged engine, not because there’s any troublesome lag but more how it delivers its stout torque accessibly low in the rev range. Although the QX80 doesn’t exactly spring off the line, the engine doesn’t labor in getting up to speed.
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