The Infiniti Q50 is a 4-door sedan from Infiniti, built from 2013 to 2024, as electrification stopped being an experiment and the crossover took every market. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine. Joel Baek, Hirohisa Ono and Koichi Ishizuka drew it.
How it came about
The Infiniti Q50 is a compact executive car manufactured by both Nissan and Dongfeng Nissan for its luxury brand, Infiniti. Replacing the G sedan, it debuted at the 2013 North American International Auto Show and went on sale in North America in the third quarter of 2013 and in Europe in the fourth quarter of 2013. It is the export model of the Japanese domestic market's V37 Nissan Skyline.
The design of the Q50 continues to follow the design language first shown by the 2009 Infiniti Essence concept and the production 2011 Infiniti M. The Q50 is also the first instance of a hybrid powertrain in Infiniti's entry-level model, but it was discontinued in 2019. It was notable for not having a traditional steering column.
The hardware
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1690-1815 kg. It shifts through a 6-speed Manual transmission / manual (diesel) / 7-speed Jatco 7R01 transmission / 7R01 Automatic transmission / automatic / 7-speed 7G-Tronic automatic. The wheelbase is 2850 mm / 2900 mm (Q50L). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Infiniti G; assembly was at Kaminokawa, Tochigi. Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Peugeot 208, the Tesla Model X, the Mazda CX-5 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Infiniti stablemates include the Ex35 and the Fx35.
What it costs now
The money question first: $17,000–$59,600 is the typical asking range today, and running it — fuel and maintenance at its age — costs about $3,750–$6,406 a year. Insurance sits around $1,630–$3,340 a year. The figures are class-level estimates from the federal record, with the formula on the methodology page; the model-year pages carry complaints, recalls and repair costs year by year.