Introduction
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If you're one of the many who love the coddling that goes with any visit to
an Infiniti dealership, but you're in the market for a sport-utility, take
heart. With the arrival of the new Infiniti QX4 you can have both.
And you can probably thank your Infiniti dealer for this addition to
the lineup. In recent years the purveyors of Nissan's luxury cars have
been wistfully watching the steady growth of the luxury sport-utility market,
particularly the sales that were lost to the new entries from Acura and
Lexus.
In particular, the incremental uptick in sales that went to Honda's
Acura division, when it added a rebadged version of the Isuzu Trooper to
its lineup, provoked a howl from the Infiniti dealer body.
The dealer outcry, obviously, did not go unheeded. During the development
of the popular Pathfinder, Nissan also worked out a parallel plan for an
upscale version to wear an Infiniti badge. And here it is.
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