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Article Excerpt
On paper it looks like a great deal. You get a powerful Q45 for about 10 grand less. At the sticker price that most other schlubs would fork over for a V6-powered competitor, you, Mr. Dealfinder, can be tooling around town in a 340-horsepower Infiniti M45 with a big, honkin' V8. You'll be out-draggin' 'em all at the stoplights-and with a sticker price in the low-$40,000 range, you have $10,000 in gas money to spend.
``Okay, wise guy,'' you say, ``I didn't get to be Mr. (or Ms.) Big by believing everything I read in the papers. What's the catch?''
The catch is you have to take it in this car body, a semi-slab-sided, Japan-market Cedric/Gloria with design charm reminiscent of a late '70s Ford LTD, just how they like 'em in the Japanese domestic market. But that's the only catch. And you might even like that exterior, since design is pretty subjective and since you won't exactly see M45s coming and going all day.
The rest of the deal is straight. The engine and transmission, chassis, suspension, platform and a whole bunch of other stuff is part-for-part from the flagship Q45. So, on balance, it is a great deal.
Why is Infiniti doing it? The...
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