INFINITI qx80 Detailed Test Drive and Review | Luxury SUV |

What's up guys, Christopher from Cars Unlocked. The snow has finally landed. It's the perfect day to test drive this Infiniti QX80 all-wheel drive. Let's check it all out and go for a drive. So now we're inside this beast. This is the yacht of the Infiniti world. I feel so far away from you guys. The camera is so far because there's so much interior space and interior passenger volume in here. As always guys, subscribe to Cars Unlocked. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask me in the comment section below. I'll be more than happy to answer your questions. Thanks so much to all those who got my video sponsor, Shine Armor. Take a look at their website. They're going to be having a ton of holiday deals. You guys showed a lot of support throughout Black Friday. But don't forget to use my coupon code CU10 to get your discount at checkout. The link is in the description below. I'm trying this Infiniti out. This thing is a beast. 5.6 liter V8. It's got about 400 horsepower, 7-speed automatic transmission with that Infiniti adaptive shift control. It really takes off when you put your foot down. Even though this is a really big and heavy vehicle, this thing really goes when you put your foot down using that V8. Like I said, it really goes. You can tow 8,500 pounds, so it can pretty much do any job that you're looking for. Feels like I'm driving a pickup truck, really. It feels like I'm driving a Nissan Titan or a Dodge Ram without the length in it. Seeing over the front hood is a little tough. You can't really see your front bumper. You expect that in a big vehicle like this, so it is a little harder to gauge. And those hood swoops really kind of help gauge the distance. Looking at the back, you can see there's nice chrome accents all throughout the back. It is a massive rear bumper and it's protected by this large silver bumper protector here. That's going to help when you're sliding things in and out. You might be wondering what this is for. This covers up all your tow hitch and your towing harness equipment. So with this 5.6 liter V8, you can tow up to 8,500 pounds and everything is hidden under here, so it doesn't show when you're not using it. When we open the trunk, it's a power lift gate. Makes it really easy for putting things in and out. And there's a ton of storage in here. You can see I do have the back seats folded down. It's in the five seat configuration. Come a little closer, Kaylee. There's a little bit of hidden storage under here. Perfect to hide your snow brush or whatever you need. And again, like I mentioned, all the seats come up just with the touch of a button here. So you can fold the seats up nice and easy. You do sacrifice a bit of storage when you're using this third row, but you can fit anybody in here. There's so much space. Big Rhonda, Big Bertha, Uncle Tommy. You can fit their stroller in the back as well for the little ones. You can see there's an anchor for the car seat also in the third row. So there's a ton of space in this beast. Today's a perfect day to be driving this thing because the roads are a little slick up here in Ontario. However, this car is equipped with a snow mode and a tow haul mode. I can just adjust the pedal here. It does come with the four-wheel drive. So we do have the automatic four-wheel drive. We'll automatically switch. And I can also manually flip it from four high to four low. They say you can do that on the fly, but I always recommend putting it in neutral. 20-inch aluminum alloy rims come on this beast. When you go up to the highest package, the limited, you do get the 22s. These ones are just in regular gray. And when you go up, they dark out those 22s. Interior-wise, very luxury feeling in here. You'd expect that from an Infiniti vehicle. This one, you get the charcoal leather with this nice white premium stitching. It does have this wood, ash wood trim is what they call it, all throughout the vehicle. I like it right here on the wheel. It gives the wheel a nice slick feeling when you're holding it. And it is all throughout the center console and throughout the door panels. In terms of infotainment-wise, like I said, it's a $78,000 car. It doesn't come with the blind spot monitoring or those high-end features, but it does come with a lot of tech in it, right? You have the DVD players for your back passengers there. You have the GPS monitor, have the heated front seats and the air-conditioned cooling front seats. There's a lot going on up here, though. A lot buttons that I think they could improve on. I mentioned this in my Pathfinder video. There's a lot of buttons here, a lot of repetitive buttons that can be used on the touchscreen. I saw that the 2020 redesign, they're actually putting two touchscreens in here. One for your radio and infotainment and the other one for your heating and climate controls and vehicle controls down below. So hopefully that addresses that problem. If that's not a big factor to you, then you can probably deal with all these buttons, but there is a lot going on. $78,000. If I were to buy this vehicle, I would have to live in it and it's a good thing because there's a lot of space in the back. If I had to live in it, the two DVD players, I guess, would keep me entertained. The rear seats are heated as well, so perfect on a day like today. Your passengers in those captain chairs back there can stay warm. Heating up-wise, the car took a little longer to heat up, we noticed. Definitely could use an improvement on that. The heated seats took about five minutes to come on. Different from some of the seats that I'm used to where they come on within a minute or two. As well as the wheel, it took about 10 minutes for the wheel to get heated up here. Bose audio sound system comes standard, so it does have a really high quality sound system. All right, so Tom Petty sounds great coming out the speakers. Two positions on the memory seat, so there's a driver and a secondary position for your memory seat. These seats are really, really big. I feel I'm sitting in this very, very large seat, which adds to the space. Like I said, I feel so far away from you guys. There's a ton of interior passenger volume and that's what you would expect when you buy an SUV like this. So you might think parking this vehicle is a little tough. However, you got sensors on all four sides of the car. You have the 360 camera as well, which you can see right on our middle screen. So it's really tough to hit something. Obviously, it's going to take some getting used to, but in tight spots like we're getting into now, you can see all the sensors going off. As long as you take it slow, you can pretty much maneuver it anywhere. I got to admit, this thing is thirsty on gas, guys. Obviously, once you take a look at this, you know it's not going to be good on gas. With the seven speed automatic transmission, it's rated at 17 liters per every hundred kilometers in the city and 12.2 in the highway. Based on what we've been driving right now, we've averaged about 16.1. So we've done some city, we've done some highway, and we're getting around 16. So obviously, if you can afford to buy this car, you can afford to put gas in it. That's standard, but it's definitely sips the fuel very, very quickly. I don't want to say sip, almost chugs the fuel very, very quickly. This specific package comes with these two captain chairs. Now you can get a full bench if you want to have the eight seat configuration, but this one is just a seven seater. It's really easy to access the third row. There's a lever here which pops the seat up, and then these third rows are all power where I can just push the button here and it's going to automatically open up the seat. So there's really only one lever for the captain's chair, so you don't have to worry about pulling levers or anything for these back seats. So this thing does have some cojones. I'm going to put my foot right down to the floor as we approach the highway here. And like it goes when you put your foot down, even just tapping it, it really goes. But yeah, when you put your foot down, you feel all that power come to the front and it really accelerates very, very quickly. All my subscribers, you guys can rejoice because finally I'm showing a vehicle without a CVT transmission. People love to comment on all my videos about how the Nissan CVT, they're not reliable and they're junk. I hear it all the time. This is just a regular seven speed automatic. It actually shifts pretty well through the gears. The highest revving is about 3,000 RPMs when I really hammer it, but usually we're around 2,000 RPMs, 1,500 when we're coasting. So hopefully you guys are happy and no CVT in this one. Obviously a big vehicle like this, you're not going to put a CVT in. There's not really CVTs in many of the Infinities, but it is a real pleasure when you put your foot down. Takes off very, very quickly. No problem passing on the highway. No problem accelerating there. If you guys are concerned, a heavy vehicle, it sure moves a lot of weight with that 400 horsepower. Like I said, that's a wrap guys on your Infiniti QX80. If you have any questions about this vehicle, don't hesitate to leave a comment in the section below. I'm going to ask you the question, would you buy this one or do you want to wait for the 2020 redesign? Let's have a good discussion about what our thoughts are on that topic. As always guys, subscribe to Cars Unlocked. Follow me on Instagram at cvanweekend. If you have any questions, have a great day.