Yahoo Autos Interior and Passenger Space
Interior and Passenger Space Rating:
Infiniti is ostensibly a luxury brand, but the interior never feels truly luxurious even though the uppermost trims cost more than $50,000. The interior packaging is beginning to feel dated, too.
Interior Space Comparisons
There’s roughly as much space inside the Q50 as in its competitors. The Q50 has above-average front-seat legroom, but that advantage disappears for back-seat passengers, whose accommodations are thoroughly middle of the road.
Front-Passenger Space
Second-Row Passenger Space
Interior Features
The Q50 is available with certain desirable features, such as a power-adjustable steering column and memory settings for the driver’s seat, but other comforts are missing from the options list. Cooled seats, for instance, have become downright commonplace but are not available in any Q50, and while power-operated front seats are standard, the front passenger seat is unavailable with lumbar support.
Interior Features
Seat Adjustments
Climate Control
Cupholder Location
Interior Sound Level
To measure a vehicle’s interior quietness we use a sound meter to take two measurements at the height of the driver’s ear while traveling at 70 mph. We then average the results. As illustrated by the graphic below, decibels are a logarithmic unit, so a rating of 60 decibels isn’t 1.5 times the sound pressure of 40 decibels; it is 10 times the sound pressure.
Test Results: Interior Sound Level at 70 mph
Seating and Step-In Heights
To accurately measure seating height-the distance from the road to the driver’s hip-we use an H-Point Machine (HPM), a precisely engineered device marketed by SAE International. This versatile tool, in conjunction with a laser device, reveals the width and location of roof-pillar visibility obstructions (blind spots). Our HPM and laser measurement tools determine the length of road obscured by the hood as well as the road obscured by the trunk or hatch (as seen through the rearview mirror). The Q50’s H-point is slightly higher than is average for this set, but we never would have noticed without the aid of our measuring devices.
Test Results: Seating Height
Test Results: Step-In Height
Blind Spots, Visibility, and Obscured Roadway
The Q50’s fairly narrow roof pillars contribute to good outward visibility, and drivers should feel comfortable maneuvering it on busy roads and in tight parking lots.
Test Results: Obscured Roadway
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