Infiniti Announces Totally Necessary Qx80 Sport Trim To Get Your Heart Pumping

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When you look astatine a conveyance for illustration the 6,000-pound, boxy-as-all-hell Infiniti QX80, I cognize what you're thinking. Obviously you're reasoning that what this behemoth needs is simply a sporty variant. Well, I've sewage immoderate bully news, because that's precisely what Infiniti is adding to its body-on-frame motortruck for 2026.

Slotted correct down nan top-end Autograph, nan new QX80 Sport is meant to springiness a darker, much fierce look to Infiniti's luxury-focused flagship, but pinch nary other power. It has a caller beforehand grille and tweaked beforehand bumper to spell on pinch unsocial 22-inch wheels, which consciousness almost mini nowadays, and it besides gets a slew of darker exterior trim pieces. On nan outside, location are 4 colors to take from, and buddy, they are enthralling. If you want a QX80 Sport, you tin opt for Mineral Black, Radiant White, Grand Blue aliases Dynamic Metal. You tin adhd a achromatic tile to nan second three.

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The wrong of nan motortruck besides gets a once-over, adding successful acheronian matte chrome accents and a graphite-colored headliner pinch open-pore wood trim astir nan instrumentality sheet and doors. It wears a caller colour strategy that Infiniti is calling Dusk Blue, with black and bluish spot inserts and typical quilted-pattern perforation. The third-generation QX80 has ever been a bully spot to walk time, and while it's a spot of a departure from nan ultra-luxe quality of nan existent QX80, nan Sport trim's compartment still looks to beryllium a beautiful spot to be.

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The 2026 QX80 Sport comes pinch everything I've already mentioned, positive a 24-speaker Klipsch audio system, massaging beforehand seats, ambient interior lighting and a rearview reflector camera. That comes connected apical of different worldly that's disposable further down nan trim lineup for illustration aerial suspension, a head-up show and dual 14.3-inch screens for nan driver and beforehand passenger. If you want different niceties for illustration a much precocious Level 2 driver assistance system, heated third-row seats and a surface for nan 2nd row, you'll person to measurement up to nan Autograph.

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Pieces are up a spot for 2026 arsenic well. Now, a QX80 Pure RWD will commencement astatine $85,940, including destination. The Sport, which is 4WD only, starts astatine $104,140, and nan large canine Autograph (also 4WD only) starts astatine $113,690. All QX80s travel modular pinch nan aforesaid twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V6 that pumps retired a patient 450 horsepower and 516 pound-feet of torque.

The QX80, successful immoderate guise, has immoderate stiff competition. Cars for illustration nan Cadillac Escalade, Lincoln Navigator, BMW X7 and Mercedes-Benz GLS don't messiness around. I'm not judge nan QX80 Sport will beryllium capable to abstracted it from these cars, but if I'm Infiniti, I'm throwing everything astatine nan wall nan spot what sticks.

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