Go-anywhere QX80 is sheer decadence - Independent Online
ROAD TEST . Infiniti QX80 5. 6 V8. Pretoria - Cleopatra’s 100 metre long royal barge, in which she cruised the Nile with Julius Caesar in 47 BC, and in which she seduced him and was impregnated, was reputed to be the last word in decadent splendour. It was large and ostentatious, and as a royal barge, rightly so. The new Infiniti QX80 could easily be the landlubber’s equivalent of the royal barge. The QX has it all: size, power and luxury levels that border on decadent. An eight-seater with three rows of seats, enormous girth and 5. 3 metre length, it dwarfs a BMW X5 and is even larger than super-sized SUV rivals such as the Toyota Land Cruiser and Lexus LX570. Beautiful it isn’t, but who cares when you’re... At a time when cars are moving to smaller, fuel-efficient turbocharged engines, the 5. 6-litre normally-aspirated petrol V8 in this brute unashamedly downs 18. 5 litres per 100km of fuel as it makes small work of anything the unforgiving South... And provided you have an uncle with the word Sheikh or Prince in front of his name to bankroll your adventures this fuel guzzler can cover a fair distance, thanks to its 100-litre fuel tank. The price tag is an eye-watering R1 265 000, yet it falls roughly midway between the Toyota Land Cruiser 200 4. 6 V8 VX (R1 079 800) and the Lexus LX 570SE (R1 364 400). So what do you get for a nillion and change. Source: www.iol.co.za
