The Infiniti Q Inspiration concept Sedan presented a vision for the future of the brand from ex-designer of BMW

12 January 2018

The novelty is the prototype of the future flagship of the Infiniti

Before the opening of the Detroit auto show a few days left: the main motor show in North America will start work the day after tomorrow. Some companies rushed to announce the new items before the official presentation. One of them was a four-door Infiniti Q Inspiration concept Sedan.

It is estimated that approximately exactly the flagship model of the Japanese brand. Currently, this niche is empty: today senior sedan is the Infiniti Q70 (nee Infiniti M), and in all gradations, it corresponds to the business class or the European segment E.

The novelty is the ideological descendant of the concept Infiniti Q80 Inspiration, presented in 2014. It is easy to notice that the appearance of the car has remained the expressive details like curled rear roof pillars. The exterior is built of smooth lines. To emphasize a relaxed design, the sedan was shown against a salt plateau.

Fun fact: chief designer of Infiniti today is Karim Habib (Karim Habib). The one who for many years painted a BMW (his last work in a German company became BMW 4 Series coupe).

On a technical stuffing of the Infiniti Q Inspiration Sedan while there is no information. Maybe the Japanese will want to install a new two-liter turbo engine from Infiniti QX50. By the standards of the class, he is very modest both in volume and impact (270 horsepower and 390 N·m), but this unit has a unique system to change the compression ratio. It is possible that the concept in General will be deprived of the internal combustion engine will be pure electric vehicles.

Other details of the Infiniti Q Inspiration Sedan will probably be revealed already at the motor show of Detroit.