I am a previous FX owner, loved the FX, but it was honestly my "test car" for Infiniti. I knew the M was coming up, and needed to sell my old car (lexus GS) to a family member, so I bought the FX and got a _great_ deal (it was either the 1st or 2nd model year, I honestly cant remember.. but in short, Infiniti built a couple hundred too many "loaded" FX45's and they were sitting on dealer lots. I got mine BRAND NEW after sitting a YEAR on a dealer lot for $10K off MSRP!).

Anyway:

The old FX was completely hyped, just like the M. Very much as I'd expect for such significant cars in Infiniti's history.

Now, the new FX - what are they doing? They have been immensely tight lipped, released the car to the press a mere month or so ago, and are "allegedly" bringing it stateside to dealers in June/July.

Infiniti has allowed dealers to place orders for allocation and nothing more, no options, no pricing, no anything.

The FX is less than 2 months from hitting show room floors and Infiniti dealers can't even tell you pricing or options available. What kind of marketing is this on Infiniti's part?

My M probably won't be around much longer, short of a miracle. That being the case, I am definitely considering the FX but am not 100% in love with it. I really love my M, but it has its own set of issues that are unlikely to be resolved in a way i'll be satisfied with.

At any rate, I have been desperately trying to figure out what options the FX50 is going to have for interior. I have only seen FX50 pictures with this crazy Wood-Piano Black-Aluminum-Plastic mash-up. I saw an FX35 picture that showed all piano black; I am not personally in LOVE with the piano black but I like it a lot more than said mash-up. Anyone have any idea if the FX50 will have an option for just Piano Black?

FX50 ghastly mess:







VS:



Which as far as I can tell, may only be available on the FX35 (piano black only); apparently Infiniti think the mash-up is higher end then the Piano black.

Am I the only one who dislikes the mash-up?

Wow thats nice! I can't wait to see the new FX50...

Yeah - I found that link too, BUT!

It says, under interior:

Hand-stained maple wood interior trim | V8 AWD | V6 AWD | V6 RWD
                                                  |     S       |     P      |     P


So it looks like you can "upgrade" the FX35 from piano black to wood, but that the FX50 comes standard with the wood mash up. I want to do the opposite, I'd want to "downgrade" the FX50 to the all piano black..

Trust me.. it's not out of the question. I just dont know how much of a hassle it'd be.

Most people do stick on/lay over thingies (cant think of proper term); i'm not a huge fan of the 'raised' look because it makes all the buttons look recessed.

Very cool. Will look into it if it comes down to it..

thanks!