Infiniti Q70

Among the 39 Infiniti entries in the MotorJury library, the Infiniti Q70 holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2013. 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 Q70 properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2010s were the decade electrification stopped being a science project — Tesla forced the incumbents' hand, downsized turbo engines replaced displacement, and the crossover conquered every market. 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 Tesla Tesla Model X, the Mazda Mazda CX-5, the Peugeot Peugeot 208 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Infiniti Q70 reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / gasoline: / 2.0 L Mercedes-Benz M274 engine / M274 DE20 AL Straight-four engine / I4 (China) / 2.5 L Nissan VQ engine#VQ25HR / VQ25HR V6 engine / V6 / 3.5; kerb weight is recorded at Q70 3.7 RWD/AWD / 1,758 / / Q70L 3.7 RWD/AWD / 1,795 / / Q70 5.6 RWD/AWD / 1,834 / / Q70L 5.6 RWD/AWD / 1,873 / / 2.2 Diesel / 1,896 kg / 3.5 Hybrid / 1,875 kg; the layout is Front engine, rear-wheel drive / All-wheel drive. 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 Q70 sits alongside the Infiniti Emerg-e, the Infiniti Etherea, the Infiniti G coupe, the Infiniti G20. The record names the Infiniti M (renamed from) / Infiniti Q45 (Q70L) as its predecessor, anchoring one end of its lineage. Assembly is recorded at predecessor = Infiniti M (renamed from) / Infiniti Q45 (Q70L).

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

A specification sheet is only half a car's story. The other half — what breaks, what it costs to keep, which years to avoid — lives in MotorJury's ownership database, computed nightly from federal complaint and recall records and EPA economy data. Where the Infiniti Q70 was sold in the United States, its model years carry full ownership verdicts there.