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Infiniti launched the QX80’s predecessor, the QX56, when environmentalists were torching Hummers and energy experts claimed peak oil would dry out the world’s reserves within decades. During the 2004 model year, its first, gas prices crested at more than $ 2 per gallon, prompting more predictions that big SUVs would soon be extinct. Exactly none of that happened. Since Infiniti renamed the second-generation QX56 as the QX80 for 2014 (and then refreshed it for 2015), sales of luxury SUVs and crossovers have been on fire. For 2018, Infiniti has updated the QX80 a second time. After driving it in Charleston, South Carolina, we’d suggest—no surprise, given its age—that it may still need a few more tweaks. READ MORE ››
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