Infiniti Is Killing The QX50 And QX55, But They're Selling So Slowly That Dealers Won't Notice For Six Months

Infiniti's already small lineup is about to get a little smaller. Following the discontinuation of the old-ass Q50 sedan, the brand is killing off its QX50 and QX55 crossovers at the end of 2025, but it's building enough of them to keep dealers stocked for at least six months after that. That'll give the brand enough wiggle room until a new crossover arrives next year.

Infiniti shared and confirmed the news with its dealers during a recent meeting, Automotive News reports. Head of Nissan America's product planning Ponz Pandikuthira said the two models getting the axe is necessary for the brand's upmarket push:

If you go into a showroom and you have cars like the QX60, the QX80, the special versions we have planned — QX50 and QX55 start looking dated," Pandikuthira told Automotive News. "So we have to make the tough call to focus on the new lineup and then talk about the new vehicles in the C and D segments in the next couple of years.

While the QX50 nameplate has been around since 2013, when the old EX was renamed QX50, this current generation of QX50 is its own model that first revealed in 2017. The QX55 followed as a "coupe" version of the SUV in 2021, and neither one has received any meaningful updates since their debuts. In spite of the loss of two models, Pandikuthira thinks the brand can fight two fronts at once: Win customers over with the three-row QX60, and bring in new customers with the QX65, a smaller entry level crossover coupe coming next year. "You might lose some of the very deal-focused, lower-end [consumers], but that's really not what we're planning to do with Infiniti as a brand," Pandikuthira told Auto News.

It'll be an uphill battle to bring customers in, though. Infiniti's sales have been down, and hardly anyone seems to know the QX50 and QX55 exist. QX50 sales were up by 7.9 percent in 2024, but the brand still only moved 10,722 units. QX55 sales were even worse in 2024, down 31.3 percent with just 3,721 sold the entire year.

Those sales are probably why Infiniti's dealers remain skeptical. The brand says that it'll have enough left over QX50s and QX55s to hold dealers over until summer 2026 despite production ending this December, but obviously that won't be enough. Dealers are hoping the upcoming QX60 refresh and new QX65 will give them the volume they desperately need, as one dealer explained to Auto News. "QX65 will help us keep the volume where it is, which isn't anywhere near enough," the dealer said. "We need a true car as an entry-level, something smaller off of the [Nissan] Rogue."

As for the brand's other models, Pandikuthira says products like the new QX80 are helping the brand move upmarket. Pandikuthira says that they expected to see QX80 customers with annual incomes of "$300,000-to-$500,000," but they're seeing more customers with incomes of nearly $1 million going for Infiniti's flagship.