Infiniti G

Infiniti G

Infiniti

MarqueInfiniti
Production1990–1996 / 1998–2016
EngineGasoline: / 2.0L SR20DE I4 140 hp

This is the catalogue record of the Infiniti G, one of 39 models Infiniti has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1990. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Infiniti G properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1990s were the decade of refinement — airbags and ABS became universal, Japanese build quality set the world standard, and the modern SUV segment was effectively invented. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Renault Renault Clio, the Honda Honda NSX, the Ford Ford Explorer — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Infiniti G reads like this: the record lists its engine as Gasoline: / 2.0L SR20DE I4 140 hp; kerb weight is recorded at 2535 to; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive (1990–1996, 1998–2002) / Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive / all-wheel-drive (2002–2016). Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Infiniti story

Within Infiniti's own catalogue the Infiniti G sits alongside the Infiniti Emerg-e, the Infiniti Etherea, the Infiniti G coupe, the Infiniti G20. It was succeeded by the Infiniti Q50 (sedan) / Infiniti Q60 (V37) (coupé/convertible). Design is credited to Mamoru Aoki (1987). Assembly is recorded at Japan: Yokosuka.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

Why concepts and prototypes are in the library

Most car databases stop at series production. This one deliberately does not, because concept cars, racing specials and cancelled prototypes are where the industry thinks out loud — the ideas tested in public years before they reach a showroom. Holding them beside the production cars they inspired makes the lineage legible: nearly every landmark road car in this library has a concept ancestor somewhere in the catalogue, and the connections run through the era links on every page.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Infiniti G was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.

Specifications

LayoutFront-engine, front-wheel-drive (1990–1996, 1998–2002) / Front mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive / all-wheel-drive (2002–2016)
Body style4-door sedan
Kerb weight2535 to
Wheelbase100.4 in
AssemblyJapan: Yokosuka
DesignerMamoru Aoki (1987)
SuccessorInfiniti Q50 (sedan) / Infiniti Q60 (V37) (coupé/convertible)
Catalogue IDQ1516321

Specifications come from the Wikipedia infobox for this model (CC BY-SA) and the open Wikidata record, and are shown only where a source actually carries them — nothing here is estimated. Figures are manufacturer specifications, not measured results.

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