Originally Posted by redline727

I don't think Infiniti would have changed the badge to a Q50 if it was a 3.0 liter. It has always represented displacement. They would be changing years of badging tradition to name it a Q50 with a 3.0 V6. I also find it unlikely the new engine is a 5.0 V8 so what's the play here? Is the new Z going to be called the 500Z now too??? Or are they just gonna break tradition for sake of not going down in badge numbers even though they drop displacement? See if they just left the Fairlady name there wouldn't be an issue. But we Americans can't associate names with cars we need numbers haha. And Infiniti could have used the skyline name like in Europe and the GTR would still be the GTR. Then no confusion over badging when designing new engines.