2014 Infiniti QX70 3.7 AWD - CNET
The power plant makes 325 horsepower in this incarnation, sending its 267 pound-feet of torque through a seven-speed automatic transmission on the way to the automaker's Intelligent All-Wheel Drive system. This rear-biased AWD system defaults to 100 percent rear-wheel drive, but can direct up to 50 percent of available torque on demand to the front wheels when slip is detected on one of the rear wheels. Of course, the QX70 is also available standard with plain-vanilla rear-wheel drive, as well. That the QX70's all-wheel-drive system doesn't feature any special off-road programming or settings and that its torque split is so rear-biased are both indicators that Infiniti wants you to keep this one on the tarmac. There's the standard drive program, a sport program, and manual gear selection. Even when in the Sport mode, the QX70 skips through the gears too quickly to be considered sporty. Matting the accelerator or manually dropping down a few gears by flicking the shift lever will force the QX70 to get those pistons flying and decent acceleration is possible, but without paddle shifters, don't expect this to be as thrilling a ride... Source: www.cnet.com
