Infiniti Previews A Q50 Performance Concept: Comments

[William Maley]

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William Maley

Staff Writer - CheersandGears.com

December 5, 2013

Infiniti has teased their showing for the Detroit Auto Show. The Q50 Eau Rouge is a vision of what a high-performance Q50 could look like. The 'Eau Rouge' comes from the famous early corner at Spa-Francorchamps, the race track where the Belgium's Formula One Grand Prix.

Infiniti has very close ties to the Red Bull Formula One team and has been expanding their partnership by bringing in Sebastian Vettel as the Director of Performance.

The image released by Infiniti show a front air dam and side mirrors crafted from carbon fiber, and what look to be openings in the hood.

"Performance is a key pillar of Infiniti's DNA, and this car expresses a deepened design interpretation of that. The Q50, with an abundance of technologies, provides a great basis for an extreme performance version, embodied in the design of Q50 Eau Rouge," said Alfonso Albaisa, Infiniti's Executive Design Director.

Source: Infiniti

William Maley is a staff writer for Cheers & Gears. He can be reached at [email protected]or you can follow him on twitter at @realmudmonster.

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Dec. 5, 2013

Infiniti to Reveal Formula One Inspired Concept at Detroit Show

Hong Kong – Infiniti will reveal a Formula One inspired concept car based on the Q50 premium sports sedan at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

The concept car represents Infiniti's design vision of a high performance variant of Q50. Called "Q50 Eau Rouge," the car is named after the world-famous corner at the Formula One track in Spa-Francorchamps, a corner which requires extraordinary strength, courage and commitment; it has seen some of the most incredible driving feats in Formula One history. For Infiniti, the Q50 Eau Rouge concept blends road car technology and a thoroughbred motorsport vision.

The Q50 Eau Rouge features aerodynamic styling treatments and design elements which are influenced by Infiniti's partnership with Formula One world championship-winning team Infiniti Red Bull Racing.

"Performance is a key pillar of Infiniti's DNA, and this car expresses a deepened design interpretation of that. The Q50, with an abundance of technologies, provides a great basis for an extreme performance version, embodied in the design of Q50 Eau Rouge," said Alfonso Albaisa, Infiniti's Executive Design Director.

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[Drew Dowdell]

Eh....Nissan has been hanging out with the French too long

[G. David Felt]

Interesting, has some style aspects that are interesting but lately I see allot of Animation type style in the auto's out of Japan. I know animation is one of their inventions but do they have to animate everything?

[regfootball]

what is a Q 50?

what ever happened to the G35?

[Robert Hall]

what is a Q 50?

what ever happened to the G35?

The G35 has been gone for 5 years or so..replaced by the G37. The Q50 is replacing the G37 (new naming scheme), but they are keeping the G37 around for a while also.

Edited December 8, 2013 by Cubical-aka-Moltar