The FX35 is clearly a sporty suv targeting people who want that vq sound. if it bothers you… buy a different car. Doesn’t mazda have a goofy suv that looks like that too. Yeah! get that one. As for the FX35, i don’t really understand the point of this arguement. Michael, you said “Big on the outside, small on the inside? Low gas mileage? Just not my style, all around, even without the noise pollution.”

1) I’m not sure about the size so i don’t have much to say.
2) If you do rock an American car, you most likely guzzle as much fuel. (VQ’s are pretty good with gas if you don’t drive like a jerk)
3) Not your style? I understand, i wouldn’t buy one either. (Now before you crazy infiniti lovers start bashing me, read the name. i have a G, sounds great too)

SOOOOO my point being. i respectfully disagree with Michael, EVEN THOUGH i am a G advocate. Now if we could all find the maturity to do the same, the world might be a better place =D.

Are you serious? This is my blog and I can complain about whatever I want (by the way, I just heard an FX35 burning past the stop sign near my house). I can also delete your comments, right?

Do I somehow have some power here over the world? I really don’t think so. I think I’m just one person who disagrees with your point of view. Isn’t that freedom? And if you saw how few people actually read my blog, you’d know that my sphere of influence is tiny.

If I was sure I was right and you were wrong, I wouldn’t let you comment at all. I’m leaving this open for discussion. That’s why there are comments at all. Have I somehow impinged upon your right to buy any car you choose? In my original blog post, I stated that -I- wouldn’t buy an Infiniti - not that I was forcing that opinion on you.

And your comment about the private island? That’s as juvenile as your Infiniti-compatriots before you who think the issue is that I can’t afford one of these loud psuedo-SUVs. Have I suggested legislation or something similar? You’ve inferred far more than I ever wrote - inaccurately.

You’re trying to make me feel unpatriotic because you’ve extrapolated to Fourth of July noise? Sorry - but that makes no sense at all. If anything, you’ve clearly got a patriotism deficit by purchasing a Japanese car that sucks gas from the Middle East, thus increasing our dependence on foreign oil at the same time that it increases our trade deficit. Please don’t try to pin a lack of patriotism on me - that is, again, totally inaccurate.

Finally, I will agree that your last sentence is totally accurate: I can blog and complain, and you can drive a loud car. Thanks for seeing this both ways.

Now if you don’t like choices and the freedom to choose that goes along with it, go buy a private island and make loud exhausts illegal. Until then, enjoy your freedom to complain about loud exhausts, and I’ll enjoy MY freedom to by any car I choose.

All I can tell you is this: if I hear an unusually loud exhaust, nine times out of ten, it’s one of these models. My problem is with noise - not with any style of car.

I’ve got another poster up there getting made at me having something to do with Acuras really being Odysseys with a different body - where did that come from?

I’m happy for you to drive something sporty. I’d just like it to not make so much noise - that’s all.

What I really don’t understand is why people would specifically opt to make more noise rather than less. One poster mentioned the Harley issue - same thing applies. Why do we need more noise when we can have less? If it’s great music or something else valuable, fine, but these “exhaust notes” as everyone likes to call them are the same environmental noise that, if emitted in a factory, would make OSHA require headphones.

If you want to drive an Infiniti, that’s fine. If you want to tell me it is or isn’t an SUV/Wagon/Family car/Sports car, fine. But it is louder than a standard vehicle, and louder than it needs to be.

So let me get this straight… you don’t like INFINITIs cause they’re too loud for a “family” car, but other cars can be loud? So then, what about the M3 and M5 cars from BMW? They have 4 doors (well, the M3 sedan does) and could be considered “family” cars as well, but they’re even LOUDER than the INFINITIs. There are also quite a few other “enthusiast” vehicles with 4+ doors and a loud exhaust (SRT cars from Chrysler, the new G8 from Pontiac, etc.) that I can think of. Why not complain about these? Or what about sports cars in general? Is it OK for THEM to be loud since they’re not “family” cars? In all fairness, the G35 was designed as a sports sedan or sports coupe, and the FX35 was designed as a sports SUV. They are the “other” sports cars that are starting to come out (like the X6 copied the formula of the original FX35). Why is it that if someone has a family and wants more than 2 doors they can’t drive something sporty? All INFINITIs handle like sports cars and have the exhaust note to match (well, some of the new ones are more muted than others). So what’s wrong with that?

My bad assuming if you were going to post about a vehicle you’d actually driven one before you put your opinion out there. But then I suppose I’m wrong to assume everyone tries carefully to know what they’re talking about when they share their opinions.

A lot of us are very passionate about what we drive. Most of us love the FX’s and G’s exhaust notes. We find them close to some Ferrari’s. (also not a family vehicle). So if you’ll forgive me for suggesting your opinion is ill conceived and uninformed I’ll forgive you for posting such derogatory comments in the first place.

Thanks for listening. No need to reply.

no offense, but, this blog might be the most ridiculous thing to complain about that i’ve EVER seen. Infinitis are not that loud. when you’re driving one with the windows up, you can’t even hear the exhaust note.

she enjoys it and as a mother of 3, she says that driving the fx is comparable to driving a sports sedan. She loves the exhaust note and the feels as if she is cruising down the highway in a younger person’s car. Midlife crisis? No. Good taste and enjoyment? yes.

1 - I do have to approve posts to the comments section. So I’m NOT approving posts with off-color language. You can call me and idiot or a moron or imply that I drive an American car all you want - and those I’ll approve. But this is a post about a FAMILY car, right? So let’s keep the language reasonable.

2 - That brings me to my next issue: This is a family car. Here, in LA, it’s pretty much a mom’s taxi, for moms who can’t stand the minivan. Maybe in the rest of the country, dads are driving it, but either way, it’s a FAMILY-mobile. So where are the moms who could post? Is that the point - only the dads like the noise? Does it make them feel that they aren’t driving a station wagon somehow? (I’m all for station wagons, myself.) Does it make them feel like this is a sports car?