![]() Or, at least test these systems in the QX70 before finalizing a purchase/lease decision.Īfter 9 years, I decided it bothered me too much, so I switched to another manufacturer's crossover. If driving a relatively high-priced premium automobile with horrible technology, out-performed and out-designed by many budget cars will bother you. If you don't care about user toys/entertainment/navigation - then the QX70 is a fantastic car. ![]() At least 80% were found in all of the other 2015 cars, and often 100%. Not one business from 2013 or 2014 was found on the Nav dataset in the 2015 or even the 2016 QX70. I made a list of several destinations, all established in early 2014 or in prior years, and then tested the 2015 cars from several manufacturers. I found that design and software varied from manufacturer to manufacturer - with many aspects of the Infiniti being the worst. I tried several different automobile brands. Not even brand new cars.Īs I prepared to buy the QX70, my fourth Infiniti, I decided to pay particular attention to the Nav/entertainment system. Roads and business in existence for several years simply don't appear in the Infiniti's Nav. Whatever source Infiniti uses for nav-data is horrible. No ability to control music selection with voice commands.īut the most astonishing problem is the severely outdated navigation dataset loaded into new cars. Limited information display when using your own devices via bluetooth or USB, and even for the Satellite radio. Only one USB outlet in the car, voice interface that works poorly and freezes are some of the problems. Test other cars, and almost all will demonstrate much better controls and interfaces. The software and user interface for Navigation, Bluetooth, and audio entertainment are bad. However, for any driver who finds technology to be important - the FX and QX70 miss the mark by alot. The car was fun to drive, and had great exterior styling. Since all other exterior color combos provide for graphite or wheat interior, this issue should only occur with a Mocha/brown leather equipped car. That's poor attention to detail reminiscent of a half-finished job or a cover-up. Brown floormats over the basic graphite carpet looks odd. Seats and parts of the dash are substituted with nice brown leather, but all other leather and trim remains the standard graphite - such as the doors, portions of the dash, etc. The brown interior results in a hodgepodge incomplete look - a sort of cheap, half-finished shortcut. The basic interior choices for the car are either graphite gray or light wheat. The metallic exterior paint appears as a deep, eggplant purple in many lighting situations, including daylight/sunlight. Most recently had a car in Midnight Mocha with brown leather interior - a nice deep root beer color. Rear cargo capacity was fine for me - but this isn't going to provide the mega-capacity of some SUVs. Rear seat room was … adequate, but due to the shape of the rear doors, getting in and out was a problem for some passengers. There were a few areas of concern over the years, and since the model doesn't seem to have changed in over a decade, they continued to be issues. The majority of the really important things on a car - safety, drive, handling, reliability - all of my cars were excellent. I owned three Infiniti FX cars - 2006, 2009, 2012.
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