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Infiniti has openly admitted they are aiming squarely at audi. They want to recreate and surpass what audi has done in the past 20 years. Not sure if anyone remembers old audi but they were not really a luxury maker. They did some racing stuff and in the 80's were part of a huge unintended acceleration scandal.

Infiniti even went as far as to hire Johan De Nysschen, former president of U.S. operations.

BTW the q30 will be sharing parts with the Mercedes A-class.

It seems that Mercedes and Nissan have some agreements going, rumors. I would love to have an Infiniti with a Mercedes built motor!

 

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Infiniti always carries over the engine for the first year when they change the body. The rumor has always been that I read is that it will happen in the second year of production. I hope they stick with it. But you never know with nissan.

All I have heard is that MB is possibly going to build a powertrain plant here in East Tennessee to ship motors over to Smyrna for the Infiniti line that is over there.

Also heard that the Mexico plant that makes the Versa/Sentra might have a role in the MB CLA.

All the car manufactures seems to still build for each other. Like Nissan builds motors for Chrysler at the Decherd Powertrain Plant. Chrysler basically helping Nissan out with the Titan diesel. Ebb and flow.