Most power, lots of room, an athletic 10.8 inches of ground clearance, lowest price--so why the fourth-place finish? Anyone paying nearly $55 large for a luxury truck, we think, ought to get a package that feels as refined and substantial as a leather club chair. The QX56 doesn't.
The materials on the dash and interior received universal thumbs-down. "The more I look, the more cheap details I find," commented editor-in-chief Kevin Smith. "The sun visors look like they came from an econobox." "Looks way too much like its less-pricey sibling, the Nissan Pathfinder Armada," Matthius added. And despite being built on a beefy boxed ladder frame, the QX56 squeaked and shimmied like a flock of teenage girls at a Leonardo DiCaprio movie. "Rattles and shakes over dirt roads mercilessly," noted Williams. "Unimpressive structural integrity," wrote Matthius. "There's a terrible creak coming from somewhere in back."
"With the Infiniti's great powertrain, I'm willing to overlook the small problems," Williams summed up. "But the QX56 is hard to compare to the rest of this premium category."
Splashy new QX56 impressed with prodigious power and generous accommodations, but suffered repeated editorial blows for low-grade cabin materials and squeaky, shaky structure.
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