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infinity changed the name of the g37 sportcoupé to the q60 the paraphrase Shakespeare by any other name the q60 would handle as sweet let's take a look at the 2014 Infiniti q60 earlier this year Infiniti announced it was changing the names of all of its cards this is still the same styling as the d30 72 just has a different badge on the back so we have these really liquid looking sheet metal fenders on the front this being the coupe the q6 t we don't have any rear doors we just have the two front doors and we get this really nice roof line design it really comes back nicely to the rear fenders here in a lot of ways the q6 t reminds me of the Nissan 370z both cars share an engine and performance characteristics but the q6 t is about a foot longer and a lot more comfortable inside now let's take a look at the engine I've seen this engine before and facts haven't seen it since about 2007 that's when the iPhone came out and George Bush was still president this side engine is from Nissan's VQ series it's a v6 it's got 3.7 liters of displacement that makes it the DQ 37 vhr it's got a double overhead cams and variable valve timing that gets at 330 horsepower 270 pound feet of torque those are pretty solid numbers from this engine but what you don't get here is direct injection or turbo charging or anything like that that's what a lot of other automakers are using to increase efficiency and power I expect that infinity will be upgrading this engines sometime in the near future well let's get in the cabin and check the tax I'm seeing a lot of familiar stuff in this cabin here like the engine this infotainment system here is about five years old it works well but it's not the latest cutting-edge technology so we have the seven inch touchscreen here then we have this set of buttons in the style pad here why would you have a touchscreen and this kind of dial setup it's actually pretty cool so when I have like alphanumeric entry where this dial and buttons would be a little bit tedious and slow to use I can go straight to the touchscreen and start hitting whatever I want when I have like menu items and things like that and I don't want to really be looking at the screen and then I can twist this dial and move these buttons it's really convenient and when I go to navigation here so this is a hard drive system and that means the navigation works pretty fast there's a full set of maps on here they do plan view that's top down and all some perspective view so I'm looking at perspective view right now and I get some landmark buildings here that's kind of neat it's a nice effect and I can use that to help me navigate when I see that building in the distance I know where I am and in relation to it on the map when I go to the phone system I get my phone book and that's for my paired phone here I can go straight to a dial number pad and here so I've got a keypad I can actually use the touchscreen to enter in numbers really quickly it's again pretty fast I mean it I can choose what I want I like that quite a bit when I go to audio now this is the strange thing there to actually have a single audio button up here which they really should instead I get these am/fm these really small buttons here for radio and for stored media there's no HD radio on here by the way this is an older system and that's really about it this car doesn't have too many audio sources one thing it actually lacks is any sort of online music sources or online search for the navigation system again this is an older system it's it's a little bit primitive that way musics playing through a Bose audio system here and I like the sound of the system it's got a lot of good bass so when I'm playing you know like bass heavy tracks really thumping music I can almost feel it coming through the doors and you know through my abdomen it's a it's a nice feeling immediately when you like that kind of thing on the console here I have my shifter that's for a 7 speed automatic transmission that's standard and really your only choice in this q60 coupe journey model if you get the sport mama'll you get a six-speed manual transmission some people might prefer that for more sporty drive more fun this one's okay it's a torque converter transmission so not as quick to shift as some of them can be i also with this transmission I have these big paddle shifters on the steering column a lot of cards you get the paddles mounted on the steering wheel so if you turn the wheel the paddles going to go with it here you always kind of know where they are in relation to the wheel you know it's kind of fun you can maybe brag to your friends about it now let's take the spot on the road really good to get behind the wheel of a really performance car again it's been a little while in height but feel over powerfully the whole suspension and interior and all that feels really nice and tight also that the q engine it has a really good responsive dead delivers just really good linear power and the engine makes a really good sound to even any just normal drive mode on the transmission you get this nice light roar out of it right step into it now the thing about the manual shifting in this car is the shifts are just a little bit slow I mean this is a torque converter transmission so you know they're just a little bit of hesitation so it's not quite as snappy as say with a dual clutch automatic transmission I think the sport program actually is a little more satisfying to use if you're really hammering this car through the corners now one thing else interesting here is I believe this is one of the few cars these days you can get with hydraulic power steering that has a nice heft to it I mean this steering has a really nice heft to it sort of an old-school feeling but it doesn't have that really precision that electric power steering can have and some of the better tuned ones do have these days and that's what they don't feel economy this car gets 19 mouths gallon city 27 miles per gallon highway those are okay numbers though 27 is really pretty nice and I think realistically you're probably talking about low 20 so you sort of have to expect that it's not a super fuel economy type of car okay base price for 2014 Infiniti q60 is forty thousand four hundred dollars now in journey trim we have the Premium Package that's three thousand two hundred and fifty that brings in the Bose audio system and the sunroof we also have navigation one thousand eight and fifty dollars now in journey trim Infiniti sort of forces those options on you you don't really have a choice about those but we also have the Sport Package here that's one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars that's an option brings in nineteen inch wheels sport-tuned suspension and at a limited slip differential those are nice things to have that's kind of a bargain at that price we also have the Technology Package on this car that's one thousand two hundred fifty dollars that gives us adaptive cruise control and the set of advanced climate control system Infiniti does not sure about that last bit but adaptive cruise control is nice to have all in we're at fifty thousand two hundred five dollars not bad for a sort of old-school fully loaded sport luxury car you