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Infiniti Performance Line Coming?
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Edward Niedermeyer
(IC: employee)
Published: May 26th, 2010
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Automotive News [sub] dug through Infiniti’s patent filings, and came up with an unexpected find: a filing that reserves the terms “Infiniti Performance Line” and “IPL” to market
the brand’s use of “high-performance motor vehicle parts,” including turbochargers and superchargers for engines, cat-back exhaust and muffler systems, shifter knobs, suspension parts, brakes, sports seats and off-road headlights.
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Published May 26th, 2010 10:37 AM
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I don't understand Nissan. If they want their North America only luxury/sport brand to succeed they need to give them access to their better cars such as the 370Z and GT-R and not just a warmed over Skyline. While bolting a turbo or two to a G37 shows promise, they will need more than that to be competitive in this segment.
Isn't that just an S from an Acura TL or CL Type S that someone glued on the back of this car to try to fool those who don't know any better? That S looks familiar to me...
Would be nice if they lightened them up some. Wouldn't need all that extra power and it would handle better too.
A little more convoluted in the US, but the S does come from the Infiniti factory based on what option package you buy. My friend (I'm in Canada) just bought a new G37 S. He is now waiting for the IPL bolt on bits to come out. His comment is they are something like rebranded NISMO parts. To put it into context that I can understand, he said similar to JCW parts for my MINI.