Short Take Road Test - Car and Driver

The climb to tougher CAFE standards starts in 2012, and Nissan’s Infiniti Division, like other carmakers, is making moves to stay on the right side of the mpg minimum—which accounts, in part, for this new addition to the G-series sedan lineup. Rear-drive G25s arrive with EPA ratings of 20 mpg city and 29 highway, modest improvements over the 19/27 ratings achieved by a G37 with the same seven-speed automatic—the only transmission offered on the G25. The all-wheel-drive G25x matches that... Its base price of $32,275 is $4000 less than the starting price of the cheapest G37. The G25 Journey starts at $33,675, and the all-wheel-drive G25x, at $35,275. But more important, the G25 gives Infiniti a competitively priced entry versus... The engine that’s at the core of this mission, the VQ25VHR, is new to the U. S. and unique here to the G-sedan lineup. It’s not new to Nissan, however. it has been a part of the Skyline inventory in Japan since 2007. (The G is known as the Nissan Skyline in Japan. Infiniti’s official position for importing the little six is that it’s designed for longitudinal rear-drive applications and otherwise appropriate engines from Nissan’s North American inventory are intended for transverse mounting and... Source: www.caranddriver.com