Infiniti is set to reveal its Q30 concept at this year's Frankfurt Motor Show in September, and the car maker has just given us a sneak peek at what we can expect to see.
While it's just a concept sketch, you can immediately identify it as an Infiniti. The now-signature kink in the C-pillar, the gaping mouth in the front emblazoned with the automaker's badge and the super curvy flanks give it away.
This concept is actually a preview for a production four-cylinder compact -- a hatch, most likely, as it's based on the European-market Mercedes-Benz A-Class -- that Infiniti will build at its new British assembly plant in Sunderland.
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"[The] Q30 Concept is slender, sleek and seductive," said Alfonso Albaisa, Infiniti executive design director, in a statement. "When you see speedy big cats, like cheetahs, they have a slenderness and a lightweight stride. It's almost like they're floating. That's the muscularity we were aiming for with Q30 Concept."
And while we usually discount design-speak as utter nonsense drafted after the concept itself was created, we can't help but see the cheetah in this one. Can you?
Details about the mechanicals are scarce. The Q30 is based on the same underpinnings as the Mercedes-Benz A-Class, with which it shares a platform (dubbed MFA internally). You can assume that it will carry a direct-injected turbocharged four-cylinder under the hood, but nothing official has been released.
Mercedes-Benz and Infiniti are aligned with the thought that successful young people are no longer jumping straight into performance luxury cars, and the shared platform is designed to capture the eco-minded, fiscally frugal upstarts. Besides, don't all cars drive the same nowadays anyway?
[Source: Infiniti]
Source: MSN
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